WATCH: Turnbull Commits Deeply Unaustralian Act Of Refusing A Sausage Sanga

Politicians are not people like us. Some part of the process of becoming a successful politician saps your essential humanity and leaves you as an empty husk in a suit who has to try and figure out how a normal, non-wealthy Australian would react to a given situation. More often than not, they will get it wrong.

Bill Shorten had his lettuce moment and his eating-a-sausage-sandwich-like-a-mutant moment. Tony Abbott had his onion eating moment and his second onion eating moment. 

Now Turnbull has done the unthinkable: knocked back a sausage sanga from a CWA volunteer while doing a tour of flood-affected Lismore in Queensland.

Why would he possibly refuse when it’ll only make him look like a dickhead, you might ask? Because he’s “running around a bit [too] much” to be eating. Mate, it’s a fucken sausage and a bit of bread. I think you’ll be alright.

Prime Minister turns down Sausage Sandwich… now we have seen everything pic.twitter.com/JFSMTMpRkD

— Charles Croucher (@ccroucher9) April 3, 2017

Obviously, this flimsy excuse is a code for “I ate an entire goose on the plane and I’ve been eating fresh oysters out of my jacket pocket since 9 in the morning“.

The internet did not take kindly to this gross violation of everything that Australia stands for (primarily “meat“, it turns out):

if youre the pm and i walk up with a platter of sausages you better smile and open your gob. i pay my taxes. my grandad fought in the war

— life is, a highway (@mattvbrady) April 3, 2017

if youre the pm and i walk up with a platter of sausages you better smile and open your gob. i pay my taxes. my grandad fought in the war

— life is, a highway (@mattvbrady) April 3, 2017

Malcolm Turnbull has turned down a DEMOCRACY SAUSAGE & @samanthamaiden‘s reaction is all of Australia right now. Ping @KKeneally #auspol pic.twitter.com/UCXW5gnTYI

— Joanne Cleary (@politijo) April 3, 2017

Turnbull refused a sausage sanga from CWA ladies. That redefines unaustralian. He’s the most foreign thing in this country.

— Andrew Ferguson (@AndrewRLP) April 3, 2017

Turnbull touring floods knockbacks a sausage from volunteer what no truffles on it not good enough for him

— paganine (@luckey7sss) April 3, 2017

Next time just eat the damn sausage.