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(UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub. quotations
I know there are many persons — some who are themselves poor — who 'never turn a beggar from their door,' but always give them a few browns (halfpence) or some scran (broken victuals).
1853, Charles John Chetwynd Talbot, Meliora, Or, Better Times to Come, page 247
Refuse; rubbish. examples
third-person singular simple present scrans, present participle scranning, simple past and past participle scranned
(slang, Liverpool, Manchester, Scotland) To eat.
(slang, Northern England) To steal in an impish manner; pinch, nick.