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Windsor sausage
An east-coast regional name for the cooked luncheon meat known elsewhere as devon, fritz or polony.
In a sentence
The butcher still used the old regional label Windsor sausage.
Where it came from
A patriotic First World War replacement for German-associated names, invoking Britain’s royal House of Windsor. The ANDC links Windsor sausage with the wartime renaming of German sausage and notes its east-coast use.
- Initial era
- 1900–1949
- Where used
- East coast; historically associated with Queensland and New South Wales
- Use today
- Historical and current regionally