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Bangers and Mash at the Rattle and Tank

Usually using a cash machine (ATM) isn't that much fun, unless you pretend you're playing a one armed bandit and you've just won. But a number of cash machines in east London are about to change all that. People using Bank Machine ATMs will be able to opt to have their prompts and options given to them in Cokney rhyming slang.

If you choose this option you will be asked to enter your "Huckleberry Finn", rather than Pin, and will have to select how much "sausage and mash" (cash) you want.

If you want to take out £10 you will have to ask for a "speckled hen", while the machine may inform users that it is contacting their "rattle and tank", rather than bank.

Ron Delnevo, managing director of Bank Machine, said: "We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines. Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a 'butcher's' (look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised Cockney language in such a manner."

It's only going to be available for 3 months, so get down there and join the "Bernard Matthew" (queue) to get your "bread and honey" (money).

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