Why are Pork Pies called Growlers?!
Why are Pork Pies called Growlers?
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I don't know about pork pies,but where I come from all meat pies are known as "growlers"
They're not are they!? Regional slang?
It a common fact - the inside of them look like dog food so people decieded to call them growlers.
a growler is a ladies garden where i come from ..
who wants to eat my growler :) hehe...
I had to do some research, looks to me that it is a term that they use in Yorkshire for the pork pie. They call it "Growlers". Another site said that they used the term in the army because they looked so bad they growled at you. And the same site they said it may have made your stomach growl at you when you ate them. sites posted at bottom, good question.
My husband calls them Growlers and he is from Leeds, so like the other contibuters said it seems to be a regional nick-name. However my husband claims that the name spings from the regional slang for the Oink sound a pig makes, growling. It would also be a reference to the filling of the pie a Growler (pork) as opposed to meat and potato.(Tattie).
I hope this is of some help to you.