Her Old Bangers

Outside a butcher shop in London Town I met an old girlfriend and she made me frown ‘I remember boyfriends,’ she liked to acknowledge ‘By naming them all after all kinds of sausage.’ The first time she made a man out of a boy Was a lad who she now calls young Savaloy Roy Her next feller’s member was beyond belief She now refers to him as Pork and Beef Keith She told me her next bloke she called B.P. Lee B.P. is black pudding… interestingly So I asked if she had a nickname for me ‘You betcha,’ she said, your name is Chippy.’ I said, ‘Is that down to me being a carpenter?’ She said, ‘Don’t be daft, it’s short for chipolata.’ * [in the UK a savaloy is a red skinned sausage, about 8 inches by 1.25 inches, usually accompanied by chips (thick French fries); Black Pudding is a whopping great thing that, on a man, would be inhuman; pork and beef are usually stumpy but with a good girth, and chipolatas are slender, scrawny efforts that only become interesting if you wrap them in bacon at christmas]