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Originally Posted by Bob in St. Louis
So, what's the signifigance of the term "banger"?
The "Masher", I get, but "banger"????
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They got called Banger supposedly, because of the noise they made when splitting beause they had a lot of water in them.
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It is assumed that ‘banger’ relates to the noise made by a bursting sausage, and the nick-name dates to the first or second decade of the twentieth century.
cheers.
Titch