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Cooking sausages over an open fire, Cable Bay, 1970

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Cooking sausages over an open fire, Cable Bay, 1970

Sausages are cooked at a picnic at Cable Bay, Nelson, in 1970. Sausages barbecued over an open fire generally emerged black on the outside and half-cooked in the middle. Despite this, the combination of good company and eating outdoors meant few complaints would be made about the food.

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Peter Clayworth, Picnics and barbecues – Picnic food and the barbecue, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39302/cooking-sausages-over-an-open-fire-cable-bay-1970 (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 30 November 2012.