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shrubhub | 3 years ago

Born and bred Londoner, never heard nugget in my life. TIL!

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MrsPeaches|3 years ago

It’s a bit outdated tbh, as it was a reference to to gold colour of the pound coin (as shown in the article).

To be used as follows:

Bredda, set me a nugget. I’ve only got 50p and I’m feeling that Junior Spesh [1]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6pbZLiLt30

frobozz|3 years ago

I use(d) it a lot. Specifically for pound coins, rather than the value of £1.

e.g. you would ask, "Can you swap us 5 nuggets for a Lady?" If you wanted to go and get something from a vending machine, but only had notes.

Even more so than other terms, I think this is being lost to cashlessness.