snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Some visiting poms posed the question, why do Aussies call a sausage a "snag".

I can't find the answer through google, so does anyone here know ?

ta.

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

snag

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’. This sense probably comes from British dialect snag ‘a morsel, a light meal’. First recorded 1941

http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aewords/aewords_sz.php

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

SNatch And Grab. Maybe - but probably not.

As the term snags refers to linked sausages (rather than your free roaming sausage) I'd always assumed it was after the joint in the links where the sausage has been snagged. But that's just my guess. :)

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

You have been in Goolwa to long :D ............ :beer: mm

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

So why do Brits call them Bangers? :)

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Cos they bang in the frying pan like the kids nursery song 5 fat sausages in the pan all of a sudden one goes bang.ETC
Thats what i have been led to believe.
Mandy :cool:

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

I have absolutely no idea. :)

Brits call sandwiches "sarnies." I still haven't worked that one out. :confused:

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

..and you call them sangers-what's that all about?

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Are you serious? You don't get the connection between sandwich and sarnie? :D

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

No but must be a pommie thing :D and Welshpom heres your answer to SNAGs from a mate who spent years in Abattoirs it stand for Skin , Nuts ,& , Guts :D thats all thats left of a beast when thy finish. Sorry to all of you who did,nt want to know this :rolleyes: .............. :beer: mm

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Don't know; don't care! :D

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

So thats why I've never liked sausages..... :D :scared:

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Australians call swimming costumes 'Togs' and a guy once said to me, 'Oh sorry Togs means swimming costumes in Australian'. I had to break it to him that my Dad (from Glasgow) always called them togs anyway. So it aint australian.

And I've no idea how Togs becomes trunks or speedos...

Togas maybe?:confused:

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Nothing in here about Glasgow,but many scots settled in NZ maybe yer right ;) '
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togs
................mm :beer:

Re: snag = sausage, but why ?
 

Hey they used my picture without my permission!!!:p

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Sommer2004.jpg

It was a cold day honest... and I could only find the wifes undies to wear:p