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maggot bag


A meat pie: "I'll have a maggot bag and blood thanks." Meaning a pie and tomato sauce. Compare maggot sack, rat coffin.

Contributor's comments: This term is used in western QLD.

Contributor's comments: In SA the standard public servant's lunch order was "A maggot bag and a snot block" i.e. a pie and a vanilla slice.

Contributor's comments: meatpie: "Maggotbags for lunch again?"

Contributor's comments: meat pie: "I'm of to the shop to get a maggot-bag."

Contributor's comments: Have also heard a meat pie referred to as an Offal Box.

Contributor's comments: I was first introduced to the synonymous term 'rat's coffin' when I lived in Sydney.

Contributor's comments: cf Mystery Bundle [pastie] - "I'll have a Maggot Bag and a Mystery Bundle please"


Contributor's comments: I'm not familiar with "maggot bag", however my father always used the term "maggot box", or "maggot box with blood".