“FANNY ADAMS”
“Fanny Adams,” is the name applied in the Navy to tinned meat. Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, says that preserved food was introduced to the Navy in 1840, when the Admiralty installed plant at the Deptford Victualling Yard. Years later the issue of tinned meat coincided with the murder at Alton (Hants), of a child named Fanny Adams, whose body was cut up. From that day the has called tinned meat “Fanny Adams.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 3
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78“FANNY ADAMS” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 3
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