Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

[venta]

I asked a question a few days ago: in the context of something you might eat for tea, what is a growler?

Not, despite suggestions, a beer bottle. And I probably couldn't eat a whole iceberg, even a small one. A growler, as huskyteer rightly (and firstly) said is a large pork pie.

I'd have said growler was a West Yorkshire term, but my faith was somewhat shaken when ar_gemlad didn't know it. Wikipedia thinks it is "a Yorkshire artisan pork pie". Artisan be buggered, it's all about the size in my book. If it isn't big enough to slice and share, it's no growler.

This question was prompted by seeing a stall advertising growlers at Glastonbury. I forget exactly what they were (some form of bacon burger?) but established fairly swiftly that they weren't what I was expecting.

I'm interested to note kotturinn's claim that it's any meat pie big enough to be "guaranteed to stop the growlings of a hungry stomach".

I'm distressed to note that lnr thinks I've asked this question before!

Comments

[kotturinn.livejournal.com]

I have no idea where I got that from though. Although one side of the family is from Yorkshire it wasn't a phrase we used, so it's possibly from a book somewhere/sometime (and if pushed, I'd probably say my brain has it pegged as more shaped more like a pasty than what we usually think of as pie). I've just asked a friend who was born and brought up in West Yorkshire. His reply, "A class 37 diesel is what springs to mind immediately.", doesn't help at all :-) The word doesn't ring any partcular bells with him as a food item. I wonder if it does for another friend (a Geordie), I may enquire.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The problem may well be that words can be very regional, and Yorkshire is very big. Even the West Riding by itself is quite large.

I am delighted by his answer, though, even if I dislike the taste of diesel :)