In the former USSR, jobs in meat processing and sausage making plants were desirable because even though wages weren't very high the workers could steal a lot. This was so normalized that they didn't even think of it as stealing, it was just "carrying out".
Ex-wife worked in a brewery and had a weekly beer allowance. She didn't drink, so she'd pick it up once every 4 months and give it to her ecstatic flatmates.
Still part of union negotiated salaries for brewery workers in Germany. Since almost all breweries also have non-alcoholics, that part of the payment is aparebtly more often taken in the form sparkling water and the likes.
I can vividly imagine your wife's flatmates joy once a quarter so!
Also, coal mine workers in my country used to get few tons of coal once a year (useful for heating their homes in winter).
Unfortunately, for tax purposes your employer is supposed to calculate a cash value of those bonuses, so you don't actually pay your tax in sausage.