Democracy sausage

A democracy sausage near a Canberra voting place in 2016.

Democracy sausage is a food eaten in Australia on election day.^[1]

Democracy sausage might have started in the 1980s or the 2010s depending on what counts as democracy sausage. When Australians hold an election, everyone must come to the voting place. People are not allowed to stay home. Australians started showing up to voting places with grills and cooking sausage for the voters to buy and eat. They put the sausage in a piece of bread.^[1]

Twitter created a sausage picture that it added to posts with the hashtags #ausvote and #auspoll and other hashtags about voting in Australia.^[1]

The Australian National Dictionary Center named "Democracy sausage" the Word or Phrase of the Year in 2016.^[1]

Democracy Sausage Media

A sausage in bread at a polling booth in front of Old Parliament House, Canberra, during the 2016 federal election
Democracy sausages being barbecued at the polling booth at Kenmore State School in the electoral district of Moggill at the 2017 Queensland state election
Democracy sausage (and biscuit) at the Byron Shire Council Election in Mullumbimby, 14 September 2024

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Hilary Whiteman (May 18, 2019). In Australia, sausages have become a symbol of election day. Here’s why. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/australia/australia-sausage-sizzle-election-intl. Retrieved May 12, 2021.

[CNN-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Hilary Whiteman (May 18, 2019). In Australia, sausages have become a symbol of election day. Here’s why. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/australia/australia-sausage-sizzle-election-intl. Retrieved May 12, 2021.

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