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Peter Dutton has explained his unfortunate technique for eating a Dagwood dog at a family fair after pictures of him chowing down on the sausage went viral.
The Liberal leader said he didn't want the sauce to drip on his face so decided to eat the snack from the top down with a wide bite.
He also had Bill Shorten's 2016 disaster in his mind after the former Labor leader was slammed for eating a sausage roll from the side.
Peter Dutton eats a Dagwood dog during a visit to the Royal Queensland Show at Brisbane Showgrounds
Bill Shorten was slammed for eating a sausage sandwich at Strathfield North Public School polling booth from the side on election day in 2016
'With the cameras there, I mean you can't eat it from the side like Bill Shorten because the sauce drips off, so it leaves one angle and it's not a great one,' Mr Dutton told 2Day FM on Thursday.
'I tried to eat the hotdog on an angle but the problem is there is no good angle.
'So you just accept your fate right.'
He added: 'You've got deal with the sauce because the next photo of course is sauce all over your face which is an equally bad look.'
The Opposition Leader said that after the pictures were posted online, his phone immediately lit up with text messages.
'Most of my mates actually were pretty rapid-fire texting me like, ''WTF'', but anyway, what do you do,' he said.
The former police officer and defence minister enjoyed the tomato-sauce covered sausage in Brisbane as he visited the Royal Queensland Show on Wednesday.
He was snapped holding
