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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[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Hopefully useful data point: I have no idea!

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

I would be shocked to the core that you would appear to have claimed to be a friend of Dorothy and a cunning linguist too.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

A Nethergate beer, never heard of it in relation to food

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

On the grounds that "sea-bird or fish" usually fits for odd crossword words, and that eating sea-birds is generally frowned upon, I'll guess fish. :D

Though my first instinct was something to do with chips, and I blame "potato/po-tah-to" for that. :D

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I would say a pork pie, but only because a Northern friend told me this one. Otherwise I'd think you had eaten a horse-drawn cab.

[shermarama]

American brewing blogs tell me I can make yeast starters in a growler, and I've always guessed that some sort of large glass container that you'd buy something else in and re-use (a growler of cider, possibly?), but I've never really been sure. This Post Does Not Help.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

I'm not helping myself here, but the following comments are consistent with my answer:

- fish

- I can make yeast starters in a growler

[venta.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I was relying on you to know!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I believe a growler is a specific shape of beer bottle, which might be the thing you'd start yeast in? So a different kind of growler from the one I'm after.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

First thing that sprang to mind...
(You wouldn't eat *him* though!)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

A pork pie, I think. Possibly a sausage, I may be confused.

[shermarama]

Right, yes, I have finally looked up what one of these is, and I'd probably have called it a flagon, offhand. (Googling also gives the second definition as a small iceberg, so perhaps your dinner was a *lot* of sorbet?)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Furthermore, I wouldn't have one for tea, unless it was high tea. Definitely a lunch or supper thing.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Bear in mind I am from the north, so tea is my evening meal regardless of its nature :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

It is not too late to change these strange and wrong habits.

[kotturinn.livejournal.com]

Meat pie of some kind (not necessarily a pork pie as in Melton Mowbray style) - guaranteed to stop the growlings of a hungry stomach. Yorkshire definitely.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Even my husband learnt to say tea instead of whatever random word he said before.

[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!

[lnr]

It's not my dialect but I think you've done this one before, and it's a big pork pie?