Their Democracy Sausage Wasn’t Up To Scratch
Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle
It’s always better in a bun
Where you vote is as important as how you vote.
Our usual pattern was to walk to my son’s old primary school, vote, and snaffle a Democracy Sausage**. After the last election, I discovered the best gossip in my local Facebook group. Which school P&C put on the best spread, cake stalls and raffles. The goodies on offer at the other polling places seemed far superior.
There’s less chance the sausages will run out with more goodies on offer. Bacon and egg burgers are always hot property — and they scoot out the door with the early bird voters. But the sausage sizzle* usually lasts until early afternoon. All bets about scoring a Democracy Sausage are off if you have to rush to a polling place after work.
That’s why we checked out the Democracy Sausage website before we headed out to vote this morning.
We picked a place within walking distance that checked a bunch of boxes.
- Sausage sizzle
- Cake stall
- Coffee Van
But as we waited in the line, I saw a horrifying sight. People walked past with a sausage wrapped in a single piece of bread.
What was this atrocity?!!
That’s not in any shape or form a sausage sizzle. That’s a sausage in bread!!
So after voting, we hoofed it back home and made our own Democracy Sausage.
Sadly, I couldn’t help myself. I looked at our local Facebook group. Our regular voting spot was the place to be this year … never mind, we can always try again next election day!
Australian Translation Guide
*A sausage sizzle is a BBQ sausage in a hotdog bun with or without onions. You can top it with the condiments of your choice. Sausage sizzles are usually on sale by community groups as a fundraiser.
Before Oniongate***, onions came slapped in the bun or on top of the sausage as per the servers’ preference. Now the gold standard ‘to prevent slipping hazards’ is to place the onion under the sausage.
**On election day, the common sausage sizzle is referred to by its scientific name — The Democracy Sausage.
***Yes! We are so passionate about our sausage sizzles that Oniongate is real. To prevent onions from becoming a slipping hazard, Bunnings issued a directive. Henceforth, all onions were to be relegated to the bottom of the bun. It caused a bit of a kerfuffle.
More Six Word Photo Stories from Sandi:
Sandi Parsons is an award-winning school librarian with over 20 years experience working in educational libraries. She lives with her favorite husband and two problem puppies. She does not believe a sausage slapped into a piece of bread qualifies as a sausage sizzle.
Join Medium today with this referral link and access every Medium story you want to read.
