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" The English are great snafflers. To snaffle is to eat something quickly, and sometimes without permission. Snaffling is what you do with the last brownie in the breakroom, or the chocolate-covered biscuits that you bought “for the children.” Snaffling is to the kitchen cabinet what foraging is to the wilderness. "

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 quote : The English are great snafflers. To snaffle is to eat something quickly, and sometimes without permission. Snaffling is what you do with the last brownie in the breakroom, or the chocolate-covered biscuits that you bought “for the children.” Snaffling is to the kitchen cabinet what foraging is to the wilderness.