Peter Dutton has responded to a photo showing him awkwardly eating a dagwood dog at Brisbane’s Ekka, admitting “there is no good angle”.
The Opposition Leader was spotted tearing into the iconic Aussie snack at Queensland’s annual agricultural show on Wednesday.
He was pictured armed with three dagwood dogs before taking a large mouthful of the tomato sauce-laden battered sausage.
But Mr Dutton revealed the images caused quite a stir once posted online as he was bombarded with text messages from friends.
“Most of my mates actually were pretty rapid-fire texting me like, ‘WTF’,” Mr Dutton told 2Day FM radio.
“But anyway, what do you do?”
Mr Dutton compared the incident to Bill Shorten’s infamous 2016 photo showing the former Labor leader eating a sausage sizzle from the middle.
“With the cameras there, I mean you can’t eat it from the side because the sauce drips off and you do a Bill Shorten… so it leaves one angle and it’s not a great one,” Mr Dutton joked.
“There is no good angle, so you just accept your fate, right?
“But chewing from the side was definitely not an option.”
Mr Dutton is one of many politicians caught awkwardly eating on camera.
In 2019, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was ridiculed after he was photographed eating a meat pie with a knife and fork.
His predecessor Tony Abbott left Australians scratching their heads when he was filmed in 2015 biting into a raw onion with its skin on.
Meanwhile, Mr Shorten recently opened up about his unorthodox method of eating a sausage sizzle.
“Listen, I just want to clear up the great scandal of the 2016 election,” he told Today in May.
“The bread roll which I ate from the middle, you would have needed to have the jaws of, you know, a great white to eat it from the end.
“It would have done my dentures.”
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