I paid $3.50, but got free onions. Interested to hear what others paid.

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For a foreigner browsing ‘All’ : what’s a ‘democracy sausage’?

Edit: by the power of Internet search engines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

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The drongo in the first pic doesn’t even have onions! After the no vote winning, I’m not sure I can also handle that picture being on the The wiki page!

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Onions do make Democracy Sausages taste better, but some people don’t like onions and some people can’t have onions.

The whole point of Democracy is that we get to choose!

Unless you want a Vegan sausage…

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Thank you, I immediately went from “the fuck?” to “ugh, 'muricans”, then I saw the magazine and got actually interested.

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I don’t quite understand, I couldn’t see a magazine.

Just to be sure, it is an Aussie thing…

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Magazine is just kbin term for community.

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As I was witheringly told by an American lecturer a decade ago when I bitched about Oz becoming the 51st state.

“Don’t get too big for your boots son. The 51st state is Canada and if you’re lucky you might squeak in at 60 after we’ve sorted Puerto Rico, Guam Mexico and whichever Middle Eastern countries seem like a good idea”

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I refuse to believe that that’s a real thing. It’s just aussies being aussies and messing with the rest of the world again. It’s that dropbear shit all over again

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How dare you, the dropbear is a deadly predator and this sort of misinformation costs dozens of tourists their lives every year!

The democracy sausage underpins our nation, without it we’d have fallen to the commies.

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Hail the democracy sausage 🔥

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$3.50 and Voted

Yes

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I thought it was free. So you guys buy it after to celebrate voting, or are there just a lot of people selling sausages near polls?

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Polling booths are usually in a school or some other community facility. At schools, the sausage sizzle and/or cake stalls are usually run by the school’s P&C (Parents and Citizens association) as a fundraiser.

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Sweet baby Jesus…

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In my defence, I’ve read lots about Australian democracy sausage and how every polling station has one so I just thought it was a part of the volunteering process of Australian democracy.

Also, this is the first time I’m reading about prices for it, so I thought I’d have heard about it being paid before. I also thought it was a cheap sausage.

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$3.50 aussie is about $2 US so it is a pretty cheap sausage sandwich

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I’m guessing you’re not from Aus. Weird to think that democracy snags are a purely Australian thing… If I didn’t eat a sausage after voting I don’t know what I’d do with myself. Our democracy might as well collapse

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As an American we get a sticker and get told to go back to work after we vote. No cake, no sausage, not even a bit of time off to do it.

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Our elections are always on a Saturday from 9am to 6pm. We also always have a few polling stations open for two weeks before voting day so you can vote early if you can’t make it on the official date.

We have to vote. We get a $100 fine if we don’t.

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I grieve for you 😭🌭

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$3.50, with onions and sauce on cafe cut (thick) white bread.

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nice worth it for the bread

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A referendum without democracy sausages is a referendum not worth having.

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