Let's call the whole thing off

[venta]

Today's daft question: if I told you I'd had a growler for tea yesterday, what would you think I meant?

(Actually, I didn't have a growler yesterday, I had prawn and chili linguini for tea. But the question stands.)

Comments

[ar_gemlad]

Hopefully useful data point: I have no idea!

[venta]

Damnit, I was relying on you to know!

[ringbark]

I would be shocked to the core that you would appear to have claimed to be a friend of Dorothy and a cunning linguist too.

[ringbark]

I'm not helping myself here, but the following comments are consistent with my answer:

- fish

- I can make yeast starters in a growler

[bopeepsheep]

On the grounds that "sea-bird or fish" usually fits for odd crossword words, and that eating sea-birds is generally frowned upon, I'll guess fish. :D

Though my first instinct was something to do with chips, and I blame "potato/po-tah-to" for that. :D

[huskyteer]

I would say a pork pie, but only because a Northern friend told me this one. Otherwise I'd think you had eaten a horse-drawn cab.

[huskyteer]

Furthermore, I wouldn't have one for tea, unless it was high tea. Definitely a lunch or supper thing.

[venta]

Bear in mind I am from the north, so tea is my evening meal regardless of its nature :)

[huskyteer]

It is not too late to change these strange and wrong habits.

[shermarama]

American brewing blogs tell me I can make yeast starters in a growler, and I've always guessed that some sort of large glass container that you'd buy something else in and re-use (a growler of cider, possibly?), but I've never really been sure. This Post Does Not Help.

[venta]

I believe a growler is a specific shape of beer bottle, which might be the thing you'd start yeast in? So a different kind of growler from the one I'm after.

[shermarama]

Right, yes, I have finally looked up what one of these is, and I'd probably have called it a flagon, offhand. (Googling also gives the second definition as a small iceberg, so perhaps your dinner was a *lot* of sorbet?)