pack up

[sophie_1003]

Im from Rugby (in the midlands) and me and my family have always used "pack-up" as a phrase for packed lunch/sandwiches.....my dad works with quite a few blokes from Birmingham and they'd never heard of it, i thought it was quite strange as we're not too far from Birmingham so.....is it just a Rugby thing or do other people in other parts of the country use it too?

[Jules001]

well I'm way down Soooth (NW London) and I have never heard of it being called that before.

[chicklin]

No, I've never heard that one either. Round here (N Wales) we have 'snappin'.

[allotment10]

in nottingham every one has a "pack up" to take to work or a day out. :-)

[jeanette1976]

I live in Newcastle, but not a Geordie... I just say packed lunch, my family do too in Durham. The Geordies usually say 'bait' or 'scran', but my mate from Belper in Derbyshire says pack up... I like it. X

[curiosity]

I've never heard of it, but in Middlesbrough it's either packed lunch or "box", which just the other day we were discussing at work and someone had never heard the term box before, but loads had.

[Mikeyd2]

My Dad used to take his "packing up" to work on the buses in North Kent , so I remember sandwhiches etc as that . Now the kids have "packed lunch" of course.

[almcd007]

From Lincoln originally and now in Doncaster and have heard it in both places. Heard it referred to as "Snap" too - "Have you got your Snap ?" But only since coming to Doncaster. I think that refers to the Snap of the tupperware lid !! Hate the term butties - used to work with a bloke from Preston and he referred to your lunch as "butties" - hated it - reminded me of Ken Dodd - Pratt !

[Lou Knee]

hey there I am from Rugby too and I and my family have never heard of pack up in this connection......we have always called it 'packing up'

[Lou Knee]

btw sophie_1003......whereabouts in Rugby?

[sophie_1003]

bilton rd...which part u from? maybe its jst a weird thing from my family!

[Lou Knee]

typing this from new bilton......you are so close I can smell your perfume.....lol