How Promotional BBQ Products Forged a Nation
Damn it Muriel, I don’t like sausages – I love them!
But one thing I have trouble getting used to in Australia is the cultural fondness for beef sausages, to the exclusion of the traditional pork banger. For the first 25 years of my life, I enjoyed the many succulent fleshpots of British sausages. From a humble Co-op supermarket six pack to the majorly suspect King of the Pudding Race- the Haggis, from two-foot-long Cumbrians to the Scottish square Lorne sausage (you can look these up incidentally they’re very overlooked), we have a lot of sausage heritage to draw on.
I think we have to establish though that Australian cuisine in general is far more varied and bountiful than its British counterpart, that’s something I’ve been reveling in for 20 years…no doubt about it. And granted, we have here in Oz access to sausages of almost every description but the one glaring omission you’ll find this Monday at Australia Day BBQs, will be pork sausages. And goodness knows we all like a good porking every now and then (don’t blame me for being crude, I’m just being led in my drivel by Australian Pork Ltd)!!!
Australian Pork – ‘Porked Him’ from Adrian Hayward on Vimeo.
Promotional BBQ Products helping to share important corporate and organisational messages are as Australian as Dame Nellie Melba, The Don and Farlap (OK, clumsy cultural references to support a clunky mechanism but at least I’m “having a go”, and if that’s not Australian in itself, I don’t know what is…).
So, celebrate our National Day tending your BBQ with pride but let’s not forget where some of our culturally iconic cuisine came from…and put some pork on your fork!