Food & Drink Slang (non alcohol)

Drink

  • Adam’s ale – water
  • brew – a hot drink, usually tea
  • corporation pop – water
  • cow juice – milk
  • Rosie Lee – rhyming slang for tea
  • splosh – tea  

Food

  • barmcake – a bread bun
  • banger – a sausage
  • brekky
  • buttie/butty
  • dockytime – morning break
  • eating irons – cutlery
  • elevenses – morning break
  • gob spanners – cutlery
  • grub
  • jockey’s whips – rhyming slang for chips (French fries)
  • nosh
  • pig out
  • sanger – sandwich
  • sarnie – sandwich
  • scoff
  • scran
  • slap up meal  

Places to eat and drink

  • caff – cafe
  • chinky – a Chinese takeaway (offensive)
  • chippy – a chip shop (a fastfood establishment)
  • greasy spoon 
  • noshery