🌭 Uber Eats Will Be Offering Democracy Sausage Delivery This Election Day

Uber Eats is making sure no Aussie misses out on a democracy sausage this election day!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Aman does jam nation surprised that all the people
do in the postal voting at the moment. I remember
one time I voted early by accident. I was walking
past a polling vote by accident. I was walking past
and I said, what's going on here? And they said
it's a pre polling and they said, well, how do
you do that? I was just go in and do it.
And next minute and the lady said, and would you

(00:23):
have a reason for not voting on Saturday and when?
Because I'm here now and I'm in front of you,
And then she.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thought you had a stroke and she said, fair enough,
there you go.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
But I like on the day going along, seeing all
the dudes and they're putting their leaflets at you, and
you know, stirring up trouble, you know, Clyde Palmer's people,
and that's olay. And then you go to the Libs
and say, Clyde Palmer's people will say, you know you
like you like.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The theater of it?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I like the theater.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, not everyone does, which is why there's a lot
of early voting. Do you want to hear the history
of the democracy sausage? Because a lot of people like
to go on the day because they like to buy
a cake and support the local school, community center, whatever.
The democracy sausage started appearing at polling booths in the
eighties because of the introduction of the portable barbecue. It's
as simple as that. But people have been selling bits

(01:10):
and pieces on election day since the nineteen thirties. There
are images dating back to the nineteen thirties of a
polling booth with cake stalles. So it's a community organization
thought it'd be a great way to fundraise because voting
became compulsory after World War One. Compulsory voting was introduced
in nineteen twenty four, and that meant that everyone had

(01:33):
to step out to vote, and they probably didn't have
that many polling booths in those days. So local schools
and community groups thought, well, how about I sell my jam.
How about we sell some cakes to raise money for
the school or the community center. So it goes back
that far. So the sausage, though, has somehow become the
culinary icon. When we grew up, it was the cakes

(01:54):
voting day. The sausage is now the big deal. The
sausage slapped on a piece of bread with some onion,
a squirt of tomato sauces. Okay, well my bread, Okay,
thank you, Brenda.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Iven, just come in off the boat.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
But the big deal that made the big difference is
that there was a law introduced in nineteen eleven that
decreed that polling day had to be a Saturday, and
that meant that kids were off school. That meant that
the whole family turned up at the voting booth. And
that's what made the big difference of this atmosphere where
let's get the whole family down there, Mum and dad

(02:28):
vote and the kids will buy some food, muck around
all of that. And so some places have these and
some places don't.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, my local one hasn't had it for a few
nine time.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
And that's because they don't have a fundraising capability. That's
the difference. If you were to fundraise, that's why you're
doing it on If not, you don't.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
My entrepreneur, hat what about this. I take a barbecue
down to my local school.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't think you, mais money for yourself.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I start cooking a regular shaped foods. Politicians can eat
them in a strange fashion.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
What's going to be than they're meeting a big phallic
sausage nothing.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
A big cranski.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
But if you feel like you're going to be missing
out on the weekend, if you've done a postal vote,
or the place where you vote doesn't have a sausage
scissor or Democracy sausage, which Brendan Jones needs to hear
again is a piece of is a sausage and a
piece of.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Bread, explaining the bread.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
What you can do though, is Uber Eats are doing this.
They are calling it snag a festo and it is
a meaty platform for delivering snags to the snagless this
election day. So you can order your Democracy Sausage on
the Uber eats app. It's got all the essentials, optional onions.
You know how it works, Brendan. You tell me you've

(03:41):
got tomato, You've got mustade, You've got all of that,
and all the proceeds are going to the Australian Red Cross.
I think that is brilliant. So if you're if you've
already pre voted, if you're going to a place that
doesn't have this, you can sit at home and enjoy
your Uber Eats Democracy Sausage. This is what's great about Australia.
I love it.