$42 menu item at Melbourne school’s election day sausage sizzle

Fancy yourself some oysters and champagne while hitting the polls? One Melbourne high school was offering exactly that.

One Melbourne high school has taken fundraising to the next level this election, not only offering voters a democracy sausage but an extensive menu – including oysters!

Along with their oysters, local residents could get a glass of “award-winning” champagne or prosecco while hitting the polls at Richmond High School’s Gleadell St campus on Saturday.

If that wasn’t fancy enough, the menu also featured a range of other gourmet foods like Vietnamese sausage rolls and “Jamie Oliver” burgers.

The $43 million public school opened in 2018 for Year 7 students and has added an additional year level each year since. Next year it will enrol students from Year 7 to 12.

The school’s website describes it as a “bespoke, multi-level coeducational learning space”.

On its Facebook page, Richmond High School said election day would be their first major community fundraising event since the school opened.

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The "sausage sizzle" menu at Richmond High School on election day. Picture: Twitter / Angus Kerr

A picture of the menu shared on social media showed one offering took a dig at the Liberals.

“Plain old boring burger for wimps and right-wing Liberals” was listed as a $10 lunch item below the Jamie Oliver burger options priced between $15 and $22 (the later was if you added a beer).

The most expensive item on the menu was $42: “6 oysters and a glass of Duperrey Brut Premiere Cru Champagne 94pts award-winning”.

The fancy food on offer. Picture: Twitter / Angus Kerr

The traditional democracy sausage and bread? $3.50.

The fundraiser was the brainchild of parents Sarah Nguyen and Chris Edwardes, according to The Age.

“Richmond’s a funny suburb. We’re the second-richest suburb in Victoria, and about one-third of our kids come from social and public housing,” Mr Edwardes said.

“I took a bit of a gamble and I put on some fairly gourmet food, and my wife cooked a lot of Vietnamese food.”

Mr Edwardes was photographed wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Scott Morrison and the word loser.

Originally published as $42 menu item at Melbourne school’s election day sausage sizzle