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train smash
1. any of various concoctions or stews hastily thrown together for a meal, especially with eggs, tomato, onion, and, tomato sauce. [See comments below for differing ingredients]
2. tomato sauce.
Contributor's comments: [Riverina informant] Bubble & squeak with sausages: "You can enquire if we are having "train smash" for breakfast."
Contributor's comments: At boarding school in Brisbane, we had a chicken casserole widely called "chicken train smash".
Contributor's comments: Train smash is used universally in the Australian Army to refer to a quick stew made by emptying all available tins of meat or vegetables into a dixie and heating. Train smash is served back into the empty tins and eaten with a spoon, usually in the dark and in a hurry.
Contributor's comments: [Tasmanian informant] We use train smash to refer to tomato sauce.
Contributor's comments: My wife, who arrived from London at the age of five and was raised on Sydney's North Shore uses "train smash" to describe scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
Contributor's comments: Train smash is also used in the Navy for Scrambled Eggs with Tomato Sauce on them.
Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] A number of my friends use this expression to refer to stew, not the concoction described above. I always assumed the term was rhyming slang for "hash".
Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] Train smash is a hot dish of tomatoes, onions, beans and bacon if you're lucky.
Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] I've always understood train smash to mean tomato sauce.
Contributor's comments: Train Smash (TS) is also a euphemism for Tomato sauce because of the similarity between the two. I have heard the expression used in Sydney for many years.
Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] I always thought "train smash" was a hash of onion and tomato, so named 'cos of its bloody/lumpy appearance! I got this name from an English friend so don't know if it's commonly used elsewhere in Oz.
Contributor's comments: Train smash was used in the navy at one stage to describe tomato au gratin or tomato au granville as it was also known.