Fanny Adams was an eight-year old British girl who in August 1867, was murdered at Alton, Hampshire while playing with her sister and a friend, and her body dismembered and the parts spread about local fields or in the river. Frederick Baker, a local clerk was convicted of the murder and was hanged on Christmas eve. Coincidentally, just after her murder, the British navy changed rations to chopped and cooked meat, leading to the sailors to joke that Fanny Adams' remains were being served up to them. Research Fanny Adams
Fanny Adams is slang for nothing at all.
Fanny Adams is slang for a pitiful small amount.
Fanny Adams was 19th century British naval slang for tinned or cooked meat. Research Fanny Adams
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