Roast and Toast, Toowong Village Shopping Centre Foodcourt, Toowong

The Wednesday before last I was in Toowong and in a sort of "take it or leave it" feeling concerning food.  I was walking past the local carvery and perused their offerings.  There was pork sausage, crumbed sausage, and battered sausage.  The latter caught my eye.  I've had crumbed sausages many times before.  The same is true of dagwood dogs.  I found the idea of a regular sausage with the batter of a dagwood dog to be appealing, so I ordered this battered sausage.  Almost immediately I was disappointed.  This was basically just a dagwood dog without the stick.  Now a hot dog, such as those found in dagwood dogs is technically a type of sausage, but when I hear the terms "hot dog" and "sausage", I think of two different things.  So while I was lamenting the fact that I didn't get quite what I was hoping for, this was actually a decent dagwood dog (sans the stick).  However, it must be stated that a dagwood dog can only be so good, and is something you need to be in the mood for to enjoy.  For me, a dagwood dog can be considered good if you don't immediately regret eating it.  So while I felt no such regret, there was a minor flaw.  The batter was a little tough and chewy.  However, I attribute this to the fact that the battered "sausage" was sitting under the hot lights of the bain-marie for who knows how long, and not to the incompetence of the cook.  Another quibble I had (and this is quite a minor one) is that my serving of tomato sauce came in one of those "squeezy" containers, whereas I find that sachets are a much better method of evenly distributing tomato sauce.  So, overall, nomenclature aside, this was almost exactly what one would expect from a foodcourt carvery dagwood dog (again without the stick).  However, the idea of a battered sausage has been planted in my mind, and if such a preparation of sausage is out there, I would love to try it.