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German 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, luncheon sausage, polony, pork German, Strasburg, wheel meat, Windsor sausage.
Contributor's comments: [Victorian informant] Never heard this. Always referred to the sausage by its correct name i.e. Bratwurst or Mettwurst, etc.
Contributor's comments: Growing up on King Island we knew [Belgium sausage] as German Sausage.
Contributor's comments: [Melbourne informant] My dad often would suggest as a punishment that we would be given "german sausage" instead of the good home-grown meat we were used to. Sausage in any form was bad, but "german" sausage with its hint of ethnicity was the worst.
Contributor's comments: German Sausage was more coarsely textured, Beef Devon was finer and had much less colour.
Contributor's comments: Always called it devon in Melb in 1960s. It was't considered "cheap", in fact it was rather a treat to have a devon and sauce sandwich for lunch. My parents told me that it used to be called german sausage but the name was changed during one of the World Wars because of anti-German prejudice.
Contributor's comments: "German" is the term used by the locals in Launceston TAS for a pre cooked large sausage covered in a red skin. It was normally used in sandwiches or with a salad in summer.