From another question I found out that Australians and New Zealanders call lunch and snacks crib.
On the Macquarie dictionary site, there are several (user contributed) theories about why, but nothing authoritative. These all seem to agree that it's a mining term likely from Cornish dialect, but disagree as to it's original meaning.
User067531 provided the link to Macquarie's in his answer here.
I was unable to find anything on etymonline or elsewhere showing this derivation.
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Ok I just looked it up in the OED, which is what I should have done yesterday. The first recorded usage of crib to mean "food" or "a light meal" predates James Cook, i.e. the first European contact with Australia.
Based off of this I am not so sure about Cornish though. Richard Brome was English who as far as I can find spent his adult life in London, and John Jameson was Scottish.