Let's call the whole thing off

[venta]

Today's daft question: if I told you I'd had a growler for tea yesterday, what would you think I meant?

(Actually, I didn't have a growler yesterday, I had prawn and chili linguini for tea. But the question stands.)

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[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I know this one! In America, growlers are large beer bottles, about 3 or 4 proper pints' worth, and you can go and get yours filled up with draught beer in many places that sell beer.

Years ago - like the early 90s - I lived round the corner from the York Beer and Wine Shop, which was excellent and sold draught beer with an off licence. They'd dispense it into anything you brought along if you asked nicely. But they also sold re-usable 2-pint, 4-pint and 1-gallon plastic versions of what I now know to be American growlers, with their logo printed on the side, which were ideal for the purpose. They had a handy plastic circle thing for holding it, next to the neck, and the top had a special pressure release valve built in so it let gas out rather than splitting the container if you sloshed it around too vigorously on the way home. I'm pretty sure they called them polypins, but Google image search on that doesn't look like them.

Although I would think of that as having a growler *with* tea, rather than *for* tea. Unless it was an entirely liquid meal, I suppose.

If not that ... then I would imagine it was eating an iceberg. The beer is probably a better plan. Or the prawn and chili liinguini. Or both!