The term "Sweet F A" in English has a dark history that you probably didn't know.
Nowadays we usually think it stands for "Sweet Fuck All" but it originally comes from "Sweet Fanny Adams".

The term was used by sailors to refer to their tinned meat rations being insubstantial.
However, and this has all manner of content warnings slapped on...
Fanny Adams was a real 8 year old child murdered in England.

Her body was dismembered by her killer, and the parts had to be found and gathered up in a box. It was huge news at the time.

So... yeah, that is where the "sweet F A" actually comes from. A sick joke by the navy.
A small box with not enough meat inside it.

Rest in peace kiddo. Life isn't fair.
But, I wanna point out that it is one of the very few examples of a victims name living on well past her murderers.

Modern media focuses on and glorifies the serial killers.
This is Fanny Adams. Poor kid.

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