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luncheon sausage


noun a large, mild-flavoured, precooked sausage, usually sliced thinly and eaten cold. Compare beef Belgium, Belgium sausage, Byron sausage, devon, Empire sausage, fritz, German sausage, polony, pork German, Strasburg, wheel meat, Windsor sausage.

Contributor's comments: I grew up in New Zealand, where "luncheon sausage" is the usual term.

Contributor's comments: Always called 'belgium sausage' in Rockhampton in the sixties and seventies where I grew up.

Editor's comments: See the entry for "Belgium sausage".

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Qld and have since lived all over Australia. Up here, this was always known as Windsor sausage, never as luncheon sausage.

Contributor's comments: Polony was the name given by some of my German Uncles & Aunts in the Wimmera/Mallee area of Vic, but in Bendigo it was always luncheon.