"alexine" > wrote in
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>> || 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"!
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>> 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.
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> 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!
>

the little ones are cocktail frankfurts in Sydney, (or "little boys" of
course!). We have saveloys (the regular sort) - probably most commonly
eaten as a battered sav. God, haven't had one of those for a long time -
they don't exactly fit in with a healthy eating routine!

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia