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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Is a pork pie really called a growler in Yorkshire?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

God knows ...

Never heard that before

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

It is indeed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes it is

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

It means something different where I come from.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here in Durham a steak pie is a growler

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's what my mum used to call them and she was a Welsh woman living in Cheshire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never heard that before. It's a pork pie nothing else. I've heard a hairy pussy been called a growler though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Haha there you go !!

Londoner in Yorkshire clearly has lots more to learn

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By *rivateparts!Man
over a year ago

Walking down the only road I've ever known!

Yep

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I'm going to carry on calling them Pork Pies I think but then I'm not in Yorkshire

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By *udistnorthantsMan
over a year ago

Desborough

The badge on the front of my Jag is a Growler... the one of a side view of a leaping Jaguar is a Leaper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've heard a hairy pussy been called a growler though. "

in wales that's called pwdin blew

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Try walking into the deli and asking to see their browsers, see how you get on...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wonder how that originated? Pigs don't growl as far as I know. Perhaps it's the noise you make when you eat a pork pie.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Here in Durham a steak pie is a growler"

I’m gonna have to go there today and find out

And I thought it was a joke when I first Hurd it!

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

I have have asked the leading Yorkshire expert (Mrs Tyne) and she assures me a Pork Pie is called a Pork Pie in Yorkshire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i have close friends from wakefield who have been calling pork pies growlers since 1992 when i first met them .... maybe it's a west riding thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep in parts

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