On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:15:24 +1000, alexine wrote:

>>||
>>|| There's a thread in nz.general at the moment talking about the perfect
>>|| brekkie (breakfast). Someone mentioned cheerios, which (IIRC) in the
>>|| US are a kind of breakfast cereal. In NZ, cheerios are a small
>>|| red-skinned cocktail sausage, also known (impolitely) as "little
>>|| boys"!
>>
>> Even in Australia, cheerios are known by different names State to Sate.
>> Perth, we called them 'red sausages' or 'frankfurts'. Brisbane, the same
>> as you in NZ. Melb, another translation.
>
> Growing up in Hobart it was 'cocktail saveloys', here in Melbourne, few
> people seem to know what a 'saveloy' (saveloys being the regular sized
> version, not mini) is. They seem to be called 'cocktail franks'. I've never
> heard of cheerios in reference to a sausage!

What's saveloy in Oz? in the UK they're those pretty large sausages you get
in chip-shops. I think they're made of pork. They're not the same as a
(German) frankfurter, fatter for a start and taste different.
Often served in batter and deep fried.

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Tim C.