Up the apples, she’s got a lovely pair of bacons – what do East Londoners mean?
Cockney rhyming slang is jam-packed with references to fruit, vegetables and other kinds of foods. This East London working-class slang, structured around a simple rhyming system, was the East Londoner’s language code which prevented bosses, the police and other authority figures from understanding what was being said. Some of the most popular food-related cockney rhyming […]
