Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack

Author:Albert Jack
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780061835155
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sweet FA does not stand for Sweet Fuck All, as many people believe. In fact, it stands for Sweet Fanny Adams. Fanny was an eight-year-old girl living in Alton, Hampshire, who was found murdered, her body cut into pieces and thrown into the River Wey. At around the same time the English Navy changed their rations from salted tack to low-grade tins of chopped-up sweet mutton. The new ration was both tasteless and unpopular, and with macabre humour sailors suggested the new meat was the remains of the murdered girl and christened the ration ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’. On land the phrase was adopted to describe anything boring, monotonous and not worth describing (as was the ration and not poor Fanny) hence ‘Sweet FA’.

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