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Bangers and Mash

---k--- said:
Then where does "snags" come from? :der:

Looks great too. I would love a plate.
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That question threw me , I have always called them Snags and never knew why,so I went looking.

I found this.

Snag, by David Pope 2002
A sausage. In Australia and elsewhere snag has a number of meanings, including 'a submerged tree stump', 'an unexpected drawback', and more recently a 'sensitive new age guy'. But in Australia, a snag is also a 'sausage', a sense that probably comes from the British dialect word snag, 'a morsel, a light meal'

from here.
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/nation/australian_english

Now I can tell other Aussies why we call them Snags:laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
Do Aussies in yur locale ever say "Bangers and Mash" titch?
Ive never heard it said by Aussies, except when they purposely use it to Britify it.
I always use "snags", I always hear "snags".
Just wondering, it is curious!
Sensitive new age guy is new on me too!
 
---k--- said:
I'm going to serve sausage at my next party and go around referring to them as snags just to see the confused looks on people's faces.
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Sangs or the 'proper' term is "snaggers":biggrin1:
Oh, you can't use it for pieces or slices, a snag or snagger is a sausage, whole.

Do it!:-D
 
buccaneer said:
Do Aussies in yur locale ever say "Bangers and Mash" titch?
Ive never heard it said by Aussies, except when they purposely use it to Britify it.
I always use "snags", I always hear "snags".
Just wondering, it is curious!
Sensitive new age guy is new on me too!
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My age group and in Victoria its a very used term.
Every good Pub has it on the menu.
cheers.
Titch
 

There once was a lad from Australia, who painted his ass like a dahlia, the color was fine and likewise the design, but the aroma -whew!- that was the failure.
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<<<from the movie, fantastic movie!!
 
AussieTitch said:
That question threw me , I have always called them Snags and never knew why,so I went looking.

I found this.

Snag, by David Pope 2002
A sausage. In Australia and elsewhere snag has a number of meanings, including 'a submerged tree stump', 'an unexpected drawback', and more recently a 'sensitive new age guy'. But in Australia, a snag is also a 'sausage', a sense that probably comes from the British dialect word snag, 'a morsel, a light meal'

from here.
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/nation/australian_english

Now I can tell other Aussies why we call them Snags:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Hey Titch
I think the original sources of the term snags has been lost. I understood it came from an Aussie boy in a boarding school who was writing home telling his Mum what they had for dinner. After a number of failures trying to spell sausages he called them snags. The term has continued.
In the same line do you know why Quuenslanders named their beer XXXX - it was because they couldn't spell beer!!!!
John
 
JohnHB said:
Hey Titch
I think the original sources of the term snags has been lost. I understood it came from an Aussie boy in a boarding school who was writing home telling his Mum what they had for dinner. After a number of failures trying to spell sausages he called them snags. The term has continued.

John
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I caqn see I will have to help out.
It was the pioneer spirit of what to do with Skin, Nuts And Guts.:scared:
 
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