There are the pork sausages

$4.99 for 500 grams.

Then there’s the BBQ pack

1.8 kg for $9.99.

The sausages in the BBQ pack are a funny pink colour

a plasticine pink.

The ingredients list beef, lamb and chicken as 71%.

No pork.

Pork sausages are the superior sausage.

Before children

Saturday afternoons were pork sausages on the BBQ

a couple of imported beers

and then an afternoon nap on the couch

in front of a lifestyle show about renovating houses.

Now

after a visit to Bunnings

with children

who are hypnotised by the smells of the sausage sizzle

and the sight of people eating sausages in white bread

it’s a decision between pork sausages

$4.99 for 7

and plasticine sausages

$9.99 for 24.

Really there is no decision

no choice

there are definitely no imported beers.