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When Mic And I Moved To Yorkshire........

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Jeza | 19:15 Sun 27th Jul 2014 | ChatterBank
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He started work and on his first day he said the people were friendly enough but he hardly understood a word they were saying.
On his second day he said one man was having a growler for lunch and asked me what it was. I didn't have a clue and I was born here. I did leave as a teenager though.
We both now know what a growler is. Do you? NO GOOGLING.
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Not bush tucker in Aussie then, Daffy ;-)
I got confused in Manchester when people were mentioning barmcakes.

They are not even cakes at all!

Why don't they just say baps?
Growlers and baps? This thread'll be gone by morning! ;-)
Growler is, in fact, rhyming slang for "growler and grunt".

Everybody caught up now?
Hopkirk - in some parts of the country, baps are a slang word for ladies' boobs.... (as in "get yer baps out")....
Baps? whats wrong with bread roll!?
Or cob, Chris.
Barm Cakes get their name from the fact they were often made with the residue from ale brewing.

barm
bɑːm/Submit
noun
noun: barm
1.
the froth on fermenting malt liquor.
archaicdialect
yeast or leaven.

Now your 'Oven Bottom' is a different beast.
A growler is NOT a meat pie, it is a small pork pie.
The large pork pies are called stand pies

Yorkshire = God's own county
I used to call my teddy bear - Mr Growler...

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