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Strasburg


noun a large, mild-flavoured, precooked sausage usually sliced thinly and eaten cold. Compare beef Belgium, Belgium sausage, Byron sausage, devon, Empire sausage, fritz, German sausage, luncheon sausage, polony, pork German, wheel meat, Windsor sausage. Also, Straz, Stras. [from Strasbourg, town in north-eastern France (under German rule from 1870 to 1918)]
Contributor's comments: A term for processed meat. Also known as devon in NSW: "Would you like some straz in your sandwich?"

Contributor's comments: I grew up on the Darling Downs and stras was a generic term for the type of processed luncheon meat, bought sliced, which everyone else seems to call 'devon'.

Contributor's comments: Common sandwich filling for school lunch (NW Victoria).

Contributor's comments: Strasburg known to me growing up in Canberra. Probably because my mother was born and bred in Melbourne. It is a different type of sausage than devon. Devon is very bland with a homogeneous appearance. Stras is more flavoursome, with the appearance and consistency of a salami-type sausage, but milder.