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Thought for food?

  • 01-06-2007 7:04pm
    #1
    HammerHeadGym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭HammerHeadGym


    Today me and a buddy were talking about getting some dinner. Anyway, long story short he refffered to his dinner as 'scram'. I insist the slang word for food is 'scran'. Which one is right?

    which word is slang for food 19 votes

    Scram
    0% 0 votes
    Scran
    15% 3 votes
    Never heard of either
    84% 16 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dr. Seuss


    Neither.


  • #3
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    I've never heard of either of those. You and your friend are weird.


  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dr. Seuss


    qz wrote:
    You and your friend are weird.

    Or boggers - one or the other.


  • #5
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    I'm a bogger and I've never heard these terms, so that can't be it.


  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dr. Seuss


    "SCRAN is a scottish word meaning provisions - food"


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  • #7
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    But I'm Irish, ergo, OP = weirdo.


  • #8
    Tatiana Low Rucksack
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Tatiana Low Rucksack


    scram means quickly escape...


  • #9
    HammerHeadGym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭HammerHeadGym


    ZING!!

    I am the champions.

    Where do you get this information Dr. Seuss. I may have to rub it in someone's face shortly. :D


  • #10
    Dr. Seuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dr. Seuss


    HammerHeadGym wrote:
    ZING!!

    I am the champions.

    Where do you get this information Dr. Seuss. I may have to rub it in someone's face shortly. :D
    http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/scran/


  • #11
    HammerHeadGym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭HammerHeadGym


    Sir, I am in your debt.


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  • #12
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    HammerHeadGym wrote:
    Today me and a buddy were talking about getting some dinner. Anyway, long story short he refffered to his dinner as 'scram'. I insist the slang word for food is 'scran'. Which one is right?


    FFS, man, have neither you nor your buddy a dictionary? Or access to google?

    You can rub his nose in it, but he won't give a sh!t. Nobody gives a sh!t about spelling anymore. :mad:

    I recently heard Joe Duffy saying so and so "is taking all the slack", when he should have said "taking all the flak".








    Hurries off to finish exciting copy of Roget's Thesaurus. :o


  • #13
    county
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,800 ✭✭✭county


    scran is used in the greater manchester area for food,not sure about the rest of england


  • #14
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    bluewolf wrote:
    scram means quickly escape...

    I thought the same thing myself..

    I never heard of scran before, also never heard of food being refered to as scram :confused:


  • #15
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    its used more so dublin, but i think it originated in the north of england somewhere


  • #16
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    qz wrote:
    But I'm Irish, ergo, OP = weirdo.
    Ergo is a cool word


  • #17
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    county wrote:
    scran is used in the greater manchester area for food,not sure about the rest of england
    used in parts of Merseyside also ... as in "ye get top scran from your gran" :)


  • #18
    iFight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    Never heard of either


  • #19
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,386 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Scran? Scram? I call it food myself...:confused:


  • #20
    I-like-eggs,mmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭I-like-eggs,mmm


    Maybe "scram-bled eggs".... :D


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