Knife or Crumb drawer?

[Derek R.]

Not forgetting your piece!

[Aground]

"Scran" is Royal Navy and Royal Marines speak for food, the Army equivalent would probably be "Scoff".

[mark99]

I've heard some Notts lads call food "nosebag" - which is a great saying.

[junior]

I've heard some Notts lads call food "nosebag" - which is a great saying.

During my time in the forces i heard it referred to by those lesser mortals in the Army as all of the above, scran, scoff and nosebag. In the RAF we just used to call it "food".

 

When i worked with Americans they always called it "Chow".

[dor]

My better half, Kim has a wealth of incomprehensible sayings. She's from Sunderland.

 

Bait = food

 

Gad'ge = anyone in minor authority

 

Bairne = small child

 

Haddaway (sod off?)

 

Why aye = yes I agree

 

How-way (I know I'm wrong when I hear that one).

 

 

ETA oops I thought this was the V. Pub. Wandered OT.

 

Bate was the term used for food in South & Mid-Wales also (quite a log way from Sunderland!). Generally used by miners and farm workers to refer to the lunchtime sandwich or whatever that you took with you to work.

[jacloc]

We call sandwiches 'butty's, don't know why, do you think it is because a 'doorstop' sandwich is boat butty shape?

[Derek R.]

I think chip butties and bacon butties are a national expression, nothing to do with boats.

[jacloc]

Ah ok, I just found this on Wikipedia

 

The word "butty" (a reference to the fact that butter is often used in British sandwiches) is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich", particularly to refer to certain kinds of sandwiches including the chip butty, bacon butty, or sausage butty, though some people^[who?] make the distinction that a butty is made using a single buttered slice, folded over rather than cut.

 

So now I know!

[1agos]

When I was a young apprentice in the 6o's the old boy I was put with called knife & forks " Fighting Irons" and a bacon sarnie was a bacon banjo. He was ex navy.

 

I say old boy but he was younger than I am now... and I don't class myself as an old boy.

Edited April 15, 2015 by 1agos

[captain birdseye]

Banjo, when referred to abutty is the action made when the yoke of an egg in said butty pops when you take a bite and lands all over the front of your shirt and you Wipe it off

Edited April 15, 2015 by captain birdseye

[Derek R.]

Chicken on a raft was a Naval dish.

 

Our Bus depot canteen installed a microwave with coin in the slot food dispenser (a move to save staff wages). Two rashers of bacon with scrambled egg came out like fragmentation bombs and doormat.

[onionbargee]

Scran is a royal marines word, scoff is the paras version. Never heard of scram.

[madcat]

Knife drawer, I have strong views about crumbs being where they don't belong.

 

Ticket drawer , all the suggested items and also a bottle opener. It's beer o click when you've tied up for the day.

[DHutch]

Crumb draw to me, but I have heard knife drawer used, as well as just 'the drawer' , I also first got into historic/working boats in about 2006-7 !

 

 

 

Daniel

[dave moore]

Knife drawer since the 60s, but I could be wrong....dunno. Suspect both terms were interchangeable, depending on who was spoken to. Can't see a drawer being put in to a cabin just to catch crumbs...space, in such a constricted environment, would have been at a premium...think about it.,

 

Cheers

 

Dave

[Derek R.]

Maybe a crumb drawer to those idle enough not to clear them before closing the flap . . .

[Alan Saunders]

It is a boatman's joke; similar to cockney slang. The drawer was intended to contain the 'eating irons' but, without a table-cloth (unlikely) or great care it would collect the crumbs.

[bizzard]

Toast for breakfast in bed can also cause crumbs to collect in yer drawers. Very itchy.

[X Alan W]

My Dad, Derbyshire-born, used to use it, to the chagrin of my Mum, also Derbyshire-born but who thought that she was a cut above him (and above most other people come to think of it).

Im also a Derbyshire lad; but didn't come across the term until having to do my conscripted military service

[lockcottage]

Just asked my hubby who used to be on the boats and he said it was definitely called a knife drawer, although, he also said that he and his brother found it useful for keeping Lego in!