Best headline of the week must surely go to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner for this showstopper: "Newlyweds to swap cake for three-tier 50lb pork growler".
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As someone who hails from more southerly climes, I was utterly ignorant of this meat-based foodstuff. I took a deep breath, read the story and discovered that the mystery object was in fact a pork pie or "growler", as it's known in Yorkshire.
Stuart and Joanne Booth are "pork pie aficionados", says the Examiner. Well, yes, I could have guessed that for the fact they've chosen to swap the more popular fruit cake option for 50lb of pork encased in pastry when they marry on Saturday.
The Booths have left nothing to chance, roping in "champion pie-makers" Hinchliffe's Farm Shop at Netherton to create the three-tiered homage to pork-based edibles. The pie will be accompanied by the traditional spoon of mushy peas. Really makes your mouth water, doesn't it?
The bridegroom told the Examiner: "My brother Kevin is the president of the Pork Pie Appreciation Society and it was his idea to do something so different.
"Both Jo and I enjoy a good pie and a pint and she happened to mention how much fun it would be to have a pork pie wedding cake. Kevin heard about it and said: 'Leave it with me'."
Let's just hope there's no vegetarians among the 100 guests: mushy peas do not a wedding feast make.
-- Dave F
