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    Have a look on mining museum website ,I'm sure they sell em in souvenir shop, failing that EBAY.
     
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    Why would you want one? Surely tupperware would keep your sandwiches fresher.
     
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    I've got clear memories of my mam putting up my dads snap tin before he went to work at Woolley pit. He always said when they were first married that he liked cheese n onion sarnies so thats what went into his snap tin for the next 20 odd years while he was at Woolley.

    I'm sure he still had a couple lyingaround but when we moved they disappeared - wouldnt mind one missen.
     
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    My grandad had one - he worked at North Gawber - brought me sweets back in it after his shift. Dad worked at Woolley but don't remember him having one
     
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    what was the reason they were rounded at one end?
     
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    a guess that may be obviuose...

    bread was rounded at one end too... that's all I can think of.
     
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    Re: a guess that may be obviuose...

    thats exactly why,

    when i started at the pit i pinched me dads snaptin and used it for a few years before i started taking teacakes(half a dozen) and then i didnt even bother with a container of any sort at all,just tied them up in a bag.

    still got me old snaptin,must be 50 odd year old now.
     
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    Seen them at elsecar antiques centre was a while back though


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    Is this why "food" became known as "snap" then, - because of the tins??? Or is there another reason......
     
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    That's pretty much it I think, the tins would snap shut.

    Was just talking about this yesterday with the missus.

    Depending where in the pit my dad was working depended what he had in his snap. In areas were it was cold or cool he'd take Pek chopped pork or cheese in his sarnies, then on the face (I think) where it was warm, he'd have jam.
    He'd also fill out the tin with Nuttall's Mintoes, and have flask of milky coffee (full pint of milk)
     
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    food was called 'snap' long before ACME started making their tins,apparently there are references way back to the 1600's.Some researchers seem to think its more to do with 'snap' meaning 'quick',ie when you snap a twig its a quick break .Snap in food terms tended to come from a quick meal used by travellers and workers centuries ago and has evolved from then(according to researchers) and when you think of the word snap being used in various situations,'snap decision' 'snapshot'then maybe this explanation isnt far off the mark.

    incidentally,miners from different parts of the country called their 'snap' by different names,one that i remember was 'bait' used by lads that came down from the Newcastle area,i thought they were talking about fishing the first time i heard it.
     
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    Ah thanks for that dek. Interesting. I've often wondered why barnsley folk called food "snap" - this probably explains it at long last. Next thing is why playing out with your mates was called "laiking"?? Not figured that out yet!!
     
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    Laikin is an old Norse word ,probably a legacy of the Vikings that ruled these parts pre Norman. Other words are dales and fells and others I can't think of at minute.
    Monk on relates even further probably to monk Bretton priory days , means a stern face which monks were always praying and no time for fun etc.
     
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    Cheers Marlon - summat else i didnt know!! I think i'll do a bit of research missen about old Barnsleyisms!!!

    Did you ever hear the word "brussen" as in "s/he war a reight brussen bugger" - meaning in your face/up front aggressive ????

    Dont mean to derail - just interested is all.
     
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