Bendigo has launched an audacious bid to claim the iconic Australian snack as their own, but the Wagga community isn’t having a bar of it.

The Chiko Roll was sold for the first time anywhere in the world at the Wagga Show in 1951 – firmly cementing the city as its birthplace.

Wagga was presented with a Golden Chiko Roll in 2001 to mark the snack’s 50^th birthday in recognition of its humble beginnings at the city’s Showground.

Any attempt by Bendigo to claim the snack as their own is “absolutely preposterous” according to an outraged member for Riverina Michael McCormack.

“It’s a little bit like South Australia claiming Sir Donald Bradman,” he said.

An online petition to have the federal government recognise Wagga as the home of the Chiko Roll has sprung up in the wake of the debate.

Mr McCormack has suggested a senate inquiry may also be needed to dispel the ludicrous claims of the Bendigo community.

Wagga mayor Rod Kendall has slammed Bendigo’s attempt to claim the Chiko Roll as “dreadful”.

“The home of the Chiko Roll is obviously where it was first sold and embraced by the people,” he said.

When asked what he thought of Bendigo’s campaign to wrest away Wagga’s claim to be the home of the roll, Cr Kendall told the Advertiser: “You couldn’t print what I have to say.”

The small Victorian town of Castlemaine has also attempted to claim the Chiko Roll as its own.