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Aussies are renowned for shortening or abbreviating words and expressions, often adding –o or –ie after the word has been abbreviated.

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A cartoon of two girls sharing their sandwiches in the school playground.

Cartoon: David Pope

Sanger

A sandwich.

Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s sanger took over to describe this integral part of Australian cuisine.

Sangers come in all shapes and sizes for all occasions — there are gourmet sangers, steak sangers, veggie sangers, cucumber sangers, and even double banger sangers.

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