Victorian Slang: Bags o’ Mystery

Bags o’ Mystery (Peoples’, 1850s)
A satyrical term for sausages, because no man but the maker knows what is in them.

(All entries in the series are taken from The Victorian Dictionary of Slang & Phrase by J. Redding Ware)

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