RE GROWLERS

[DINGO11]

Yes I thought I had got an answer then!! There must be some pie lovers about who know their history??  Maybe I ought to check out pie websites if I don`t get an answer.  Somebody suggested they were originally made of dog hence the name growler a theory perhaps? (not)  Lots of people here in Yorkshire call them growlers but nobody knows why, strange that....

[natalie_1982]

http://www.pickrun.freeserve.co.uk/Varieties.htm Posting it a thousand times doesn't get an answer any quicker! I couldnt't find anything that useful and have never heard of the term before.

[Fitzer]

Dingo, are you an Aussie by any chance? (I know you said you're in Yorkshire but the name seems a bit out of place) The only usage of growler for a pie I know is a meat pie floater which is an Aussie 'delicacy' of an upside down pie floating in mushy peas. This gets its name from a type of iceberg known as a growler in which the top of the 'berg has been eroded down to sea level and so exists almost completely submerged. Ian PS the unmentionable other use for growler comes from the same idea

[flanker]

The only growler I know is an altogether different kind of pie!