On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up question had been the much under rated, What colour's your growler then?.
Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
This container was a round lidded tin with a handle and was colloquially called a growler. to get daddy or mommy a growler of beer, which was, by the way, approximately a quart.