To prick or not to prick? The secret to the perfect DIY democracy sausage
It's the great Aussie tradition of polling day: the democracy sausage. Served hot from the grill, with loads of onion and sauce, inelegantly slapped onto soft white bread and bundled into a paper napkin.
According to traditions that began as far back as compulsory Australian voting in 1924, food stalls are the reward for braving long lines on a Saturday, with money going to the community venue hosting the voting.
The term 'democracy sausage' was officially coined in 2010, appearing alongside interactive maps locating polling day barbecues, and was voted Word of the Year by the Australian National Dictionary Centre in 2016. But the tradition came into its own long before that, with the rise of the 1980s portable gas barbecue.
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