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

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect the friend who told me about growlers to be making stuff up half the time. I've never heard anyone else say 'watter' for 'water', or 'snap' for 'some kind of meal'...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I have heard both those things said :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

And you're not what I'd describe as aggressively northern :) Hmm, OK!

[venta.livejournal.com]

If you didn't pronounce it "watter", then:

Clitter-clatter,
Doon comes water

Would be a rubbish response to rain :)

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Mike Elliott "Tyne, O Tyne, O coaly Tyne" and you omitted the great last line.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ex-FIL says watter and I grew up saying snap, because my not-apparently-northern maternal family said it. (Grandad was a Geordie but I was at least 5 before I found that out as he'd lost his accent in the Navy, but not his dialect...)

[lnr]

I've heard both those used too. Snap or bait for your packed lunch in particular.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the context I expect. I'm a bait person, myself.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Snap comes (or at least used to) in a snap-tin (a tin which had clasps which made a snap noise), which is the etymology my dad gave me. My very southern husband now uses the term :)

I never pronounced it 'watter', but the rest of my family did/does.

I don't think growlers made it to Barnsley under that name, but I shall ask abart.