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elcraigo

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I haven't posted in awhile, so it should be a random post:
My son introduced Growler of Beer to my wife, who started to bringing them home from 'the Pig' (Piggly Wiggly)
Just realized it's Thursday .. the Growler doesn't have to be filled with beer, I think bourbon will fit.
 
If it is like a liquor bottle, all have gone metric now, the old 1/2 gallon is now 1.75 liters. That is 8% less than a real 1/2 gallon.  That is 3.5 jiggers short.
 
Apropos of noting:

Growler of Beer
Deep in the South
Ain't no Growler now
to be found
Someday baby
When the Growler runs free
Gonna drink that
Growler of Beer, whooeee!
 
I guess that explains why I dont know what a 'Growler' is... I'm a New Yorker. We dont have that rich heritage of alcohol related terms. Of course we all give thanks to the south for their contributions to the advancement of the inebriation sciences. Without such, we would not be were we are today.
 
I'm a born and raised Southerner.  Deep South, Atlanta, next to Tara (Gone With The Wind).  I know long necks, 6 packs, tall boys, but never heard of growler before.  But I have one.  I just didn't know what it is called.
 
Grainger49 said:
I'm a born and raised Southerner.  Deep South, Atlanta, next to Tara (Gone With The Wind).  I know long necks, 6 packs, tall boys, but never heard of growler before.  But I have one.  I just didn't know what it is called.
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Apparently this is something the Pig (Piggly Wiggly) had going to bring folks in to buy beer and snacks and stuff before sitting down to watch Monday Night Football.
 
Although Miss Daisy went to the Piggly Wiggly (Hoggly Woggly) I never did.  By the time I could drink legally they were gone, long gone.
 
I think everybody know the song "Frankie and Johnny", with reference to a bucket of beer in the second verse. A growler is the modern version.

Lyrics at http://www.ciscohouston.com/lyrics/frankie_and_johnny.shtml
 
We got buckets of beer back in the 70s at the Great Southern Music Hall And Emporium For The Performing Arts, AKA The Music Hall.  Cheap if you brought your bucket from the last time at The Music Hall.

I saw Doc Watson and Chick Corea there to name just a couple.
 
get your Pig on! The one I'm referring to is across the highway from a gaintgantor super market, and started selling Growler's to help compete. It's 4 miles from my house in SC. My son stops by there when he comes home, and grabs one. At least I did one thing right raising him. He was born in Southern CA, hates football, but still like Growlers. Kids these days.
Haven't seen a Growler here in TN, makes me wonder - did someone move the Mason-Dixon line.
Cheers!
 
elcraigo said:
get your Pig on! The one I'm referring to is across the highway from a gaintgantor super market, and started selling Growler's to help compete. It's 4 miles from my house in SC. My son stops by there when he comes home, and grabs one. At least I did one thing right raising him. He was born in Southern CA, hates football, but still like Growlers. Kids these days.
Haven't seen a Growler here in TN, makes me wonder - did someone move the Mason-Dixon line.
Cheers!
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Heard it called the Mason Dumbass line in a song. Oh well.

Used to love the Pig on upper King Street in Charleston, SC. Great super mercado deli, the best I've found.

Hey Grainger, just where abouts did you live in Hotlanta? I used to live in East Cobb, near Johnson Ferry Road. (Can't remember the name of the street. The developer went upside down, filed bankruptcy and the houses got foreclosed and resold. I bought one of those.) Folks used to navigate up that way by the Big Chicken.

I worked in the Carnegie Building downtown, next to Macy's and right behind that seemingly almost vertical MARTA escalator.

 
I lived all over in Atlanta.  Off Peachtree at Bobby Jones golf course, Collier Hills, Chastain, Decatur off Memorial Dr, Decatur at 285, Peachtree Corners, back near Chastain, East Cobb, Dunwoody, Peachtree City and Woodstock.
 
elcraigo said:
Downhome Upstate said:
Heard it called the Mason Dumbass line in a song. Oh well
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I've lived in the north, west, south, east of the USA; with that in mind .. Mark Knopfler & James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia
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Hey Craig,

Loved Charleston (did USAF active duty & went to college there), rock and roll in Piedmont Park in Atlanta (and the laser show at Stone Mountain - the Klan didn't show), and the Rock Quarry in east GA in the middle of the night with the Masons (I think those east Georgia guys were the Klan), tolerated Houston, and dug Austin - gotta love the tunes and the beer on 6th Street. Pub crawls there had the authorities close off the streets.
 
"Used to love the Pig on upper King Street in Charleston, SC. Great super mercado deli, the best I've found."
Nah, it was Meeting Street. Heck, its been 30+ years.
 
I've been getting Growlers of beer for 16+ years now. It all started when I lived in Portland, OR back in the 90's. There was a small micro-brewery called McMinamins around the corner from where we worked. It was a great place to meet up with friends and co-workers after work for a pint of ale before heading home. They even had a "shed" out back where you could buy and smoke cigars. You could also get a couple fingers of single malt scotch in "The Shed" if that was more your style. I digress, this is supposed to be about growlers, right? Anyway, they used to sell quart and/or half gallon Mason Jars filled with fresh hand crafted ales. I always thought the mason jar idea was kind of cool. It kind of reminded me of prohibition days when people bought moonshine in jars. Not that I was around back then, but I saw the movies. It was pretty common to find me sitting on my back porch on Friday night sipping ale right out of a quart jar. It was the perfect size equalling two pints.
 
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