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Sun 5 Jun, 2011 09:46 pm
Is a place where students go to eat after recess at school, called a tuck shop or a canteen? Where I live, it used to be called a tuck shop but it is now replaced by 'canteen'.
Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
We call it a cafeteria or a lunch room, a canteen would work. I'd wager a tuck shop is probably Australian slang.
@Ceili,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_shop
A tuck shop is a small, food-selling retailer.[1] It is a term principally used in the UK, Canada[citation needed], Grenada, South Africa, New Zealand, the Australian states of Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales[2], and occasionally
Australians are busy at lunch that's why it's always rated as one of the best places to be.
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