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Byron sausage


noun a large, mild-flavoured, precooked sausage, usually sliced thinly and eaten cold. Compare beef Belgium, Belgium sausage, devon, Empire sausage, fritz, German sausage, luncheon sausage, polony, pork German, Strasburg, wheel meat, Windsor sausage.

Contributor's comments: I believe this regionalism originated as a brand name used by the NORCO company, and obviously related to the Byron Bay district, where NORCO had a factory.

Contributor's comments: Growing up in Lismore, we used the phrase "Byron Sausage" almost exclusively to describe Devon/Windsor/Whatever.

Contributor's comments: [Mullumbimby informant] Word used for devon or small goods because the sausage was made at the Norco small goods factory at Byron Bay: "I'll have a Bryon Sausage and pickle sandwich please."