The price was $3 a snag at a market in Brunswick Street on Sunday and Ashley Steers was feeling hungry.

He ate five sausages and went back to the stall for a sixth.

"You've already donated more than enough," Johanna Hayes joked as she placed his sausage in some bread.

She was running the sizzle to help raise funds for a new wheelchair for her 11-year-old son, Dylan, who has muscular dystrophy.