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

[Jeza]

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.

[tonyav]

Not bush tucker in Aussie then, Daffy ;-)

[Hopkirk]

I got confused in Manchester when people were mentioning barmcakes.

They are not even cakes at all!

Why don't they just say baps?

[pixie373]

Growlers and baps? This thread'll be gone by morning! ;-)

[jeffa]

Growler is, in fact, rhyming slang for "growler and grunt".

Everybody caught up now?

[boxtops]

Hopkirk - in some parts of the country, baps are a slang word for ladies' boobs.... (as in "get yer baps out")....

[RATTER15]

Baps? whats wrong with bread roll!?

[tonyav]

Or cob, Chris.

[Mamyalynne]

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.

[mrs_overall]

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

[Peter Pedant]

I used to call my teddy bear - Mr Growler...