![]() ![]() "We get these sausages from this German migration in particular to South Australia, and in the beginning they were called the German sausage or the fritz," Dr Manns says. ![]() "And when it gets tied up with the social we often engage in the renaming of food to make a statement or to reject a particular group."Ī more recent example was the renaming of French fries to freedom fries in the US. "Food of course is tied up with the social," Dr Manns says. South Australian children are still tucking into fritz and tomato sauce sandwiches, but boys and girls in other states munch on sausage slices of austral, devon and windsor. They wear sunnies with their cozzies, while cooking a barbie in the arvo. Aussies are known for their unique creativity when it comes to tweaking and rejuvenating our language. It is not the first Australian slang word or saying to make it to the wider English vocabulary. Guess who invented it That’s right: Australians. "So the people who were making this kind of bread were able to engage in a bit of word play." Fritz Be sure to keep this one handy, because theres only one way to describe the fresh tahini that can be drizzled over anything and. In 2013, selfie became Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year. "But there was also a verbal twist to it because of course there's also that the verb 'to damp down' which means to cover a fire with coal or ashes to keep it burning slowly. "It comes from the earlier British word that meant just that, anything that took the edge off an appetite," Dr Manns says. People had to dampen down their hunger after a hard day's work, and damper did just that.
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