We know what it means (we’ve been watching war movies since we were kids) but where did it come from? It seems to come from a word (or a group of related words) found in French, Spanish and Portuguese meaning ‘pomegranate’. – but even worse are those nasty little grenades found in a Sydney house (all that shrapnel!) Which brings us to the nasty little word ‘shrapnel’ – the flying bits of splintered sharp metal that make grenades so deadly. Dale, who says he loves his bangers and mash, asks why on earth anyone ever thought it was a good idea to call sausages ‘bangers’?