Words & TermsPlaces and regional language
luncheon sausage
A cooked processed sausage sold sliced for sandwiches and cold meals; an Australian label within the devon–fritz–polony name family.
In a sentence
The price list placed luncheon sausage beside devon, polony and fritz.
Where it came from
A transparent compound: luncheon identifies the meal or use, and sausage the food type. It is descriptive rather than demonstrably an Australian coinage. Australian newspaper and price-list evidence records luncheon sausage from at least 1939 through the postwar decades, alongside devon, polony, fritz and Windsor sausage.
- Initial era
- 1900–1949
- Where used
- Australia; distribution not confined to one state
- Use today
- Historical and continuing as a descriptive food label