Thanks enigma for giving the old name for a single chocolate wafer. Since there seem to be all the Scots tuned into this one, this might give you all a laugh. Before I start, just to make you aware, I was brought up in the usual rough council estate in a Scottish city as part of a big family, but I now live in a private estate in a different city that borders another council estate of similar roughness. I don't want you to think that I am being snobbish, I just thought this was funny.
The other evening it was one of those lovely sunny spring evenings and I noticed that we were low on milk. I pesuaded my 2 offspring to walk with me over to the corner shop in the aforementioned council estate to get milk, with the bribery of an ice lolly. The sun was shining, the birds twittering in the trees and the daffs blooming. What a wonderful day.
Having made our purchases, we were followed out of the shop by a young lady of large proportiona and her equally rotund little boy of around three. He was opening a full fat version of "yir other national drink" and spraying it all over himself whilst trying to waddle after what I think was his mum. After a couple of exasperated "cummoan's" and a couple of "will you no hurry up's", his mum cocluded with a for F's sake Jordan will ye get a move on.
The considered reply was "aw shut up ya baw bag"
Things just don't change really do they - maybe my boys are leading too sheltered an existence, but I presume that their vocabulary will come on leaps and bounds now that they are at school. We have already been informed that there is another name for a coat - jaykit.
The question I was expecting - "Mum, what's a baw bag" never came........yet!