I asked for a tankard, after I had seen someone with one. This is the West Midlands.
She looked at me like I had pissed on her kids. I pointed to someone with the glass and she said “we call them a handled glass or a jug”
I’m in my fifties. I’ve never heard it called either.
Just ask for a glass with a handle if you want one of these. But Dimpled pint glass is the correct term.
Pint pot.
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We just used to call it a Handle. Such as ‘pint of bitter in a handle’.
Coronation Street Glass from the 90s
Delicious
Breakfast
To know if it will be home for dinner.
Tankard
Jug
handle pint pot
when I worked in a pub in Cheetham Hill there were two of these pots and two regulars who preferred them. They don’t stack well, and they don’t fit under the bar nicely. They are cumbersome glasses.
Jug
I would call it a ‘handle’
Why not?
That’s a jug, the other type is a straight glass
A mug
I remember them being called a Barrel Glass in the past. Also hilarious watching someone trying to ask for one in a noisy pub. The hand gestures were mostly inappropriate 😂
tankard.
then when the barstaff look at me confused I say “glass with a handle”
Beer mug
Pint jug
That be a pint of beer mate
These are also superior when it comes to your typical rural pub brawl/melee.
Not only is the glass thicker, which means more efficient concussive power, but the handle really helps with getting a dynamic, high-octane swing at your drunken opponent. /s
Tankard
Tankards are usually more cylindrical with a rimmed or flared base. This is a dimple mug personally but I always ask for “a handle” when in the pub. This gives them the opportunity to provide a dimple mug or a tankard depending on the availability.
“Old man pint glass”.
Dimple mug. Only because I’ve worked behind bars and I know my nonics from my tulips.
Spelled phonetically I’d call it “A Pint pot wit thandle”.
Nottingham – It was a jug when I worked in a pub many years ago. A tankard is metal, pewter or wood.
I had no idea this wasn’t universally called a pint pot.
Similar to how every Manc realizes at some point in their life that mither isn’t used outside of Manchester.
No idea what it supposed to actually be called, but I call it a bubble glass.
Pineapple glass
Tankard
Tankard, yeah I’ve had barmaids look at me blankly when I’ve Asked for one,
I’ve always heard it referred to as a window glass
That’s a pint pot. A crummy looking one with a flat handle top.
The proper old school ones were thick as nhs specs and served as an excellent conflict resolution device. They got banned for a while, at least up north and replaced by the thin flimsy pint glasses of today.
Glass tankard
Grandad pint
It’s got a handle so it’s a pint mug. If it’s the taller one with no handle it’s a pint glass.
That’s a “Barrell” glass up north.
Grenade glass
Very sure you call it a tankard even though tankards traditionally would have the metal lid
I know it’s not the wide name, but I call them “grandad pint glasses”
A mug. Anything with a handle is a mug (according to mum)
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Pint mug, pint glass, dimpled pint glass.
Jug
Dimpled pint
Mug
I asked for a tankard, after I had seen someone with one. This is the West Midlands.
She looked at me like I had pissed on her kids. I pointed to someone with the glass and she said “we call them a handled glass or a jug”
I’m in my fifties. I’ve never heard it called either.
Just ask for a glass with a handle if you want one of these. But Dimpled pint glass is the correct term.
Pint pot.
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We just used to call it a Handle. Such as ‘pint of bitter in a handle’.
Coronation Street Glass from the 90s
Delicious
Breakfast
To know if it will be home for dinner.
Tankard
Jug
handle pint pot
when I worked in a pub in Cheetham Hill there were two of these pots and two regulars who preferred them. They don’t stack well, and they don’t fit under the bar nicely. They are cumbersome glasses.
Jug
I would call it a ‘handle’
Why not?
That’s a jug, the other type is a straight glass
A mug
I remember them being called a Barrel Glass in the past. Also hilarious watching someone trying to ask for one in a noisy pub. The hand gestures were mostly inappropriate 😂
tankard.
then when the barstaff look at me confused I say “glass with a handle”
Beer mug
Pint jug
That be a pint of beer mate
These are also superior when it comes to your typical rural pub brawl/melee.
Not only is the glass thicker, which means more efficient concussive power, but the handle really helps with getting a dynamic, high-octane swing at your drunken opponent. /s
Tankard
Tankards are usually more cylindrical with a rimmed or flared base. This is a dimple mug personally but I always ask for “a handle” when in the pub. This gives them the opportunity to provide a dimple mug or a tankard depending on the availability.
“Old man pint glass”.
Dimple mug. Only because I’ve worked behind bars and I know my nonics from my tulips.
Spelled phonetically I’d call it “A Pint pot wit thandle”.
Nottingham – It was a jug when I worked in a pub many years ago. A tankard is metal, pewter or wood.
I had no idea this wasn’t universally called a pint pot.
Similar to how every Manc realizes at some point in their life that mither isn’t used outside of Manchester.
No idea what it supposed to actually be called, but I call it a bubble glass.
Pineapple glass
Tankard
Tankard, yeah I’ve had barmaids look at me blankly when I’ve Asked for one,
I’ve always heard it referred to as a window glass
That’s a pint pot. A crummy looking one with a flat handle top.
The proper old school ones were thick as nhs specs and served as an excellent conflict resolution device. They got banned for a while, at least up north and replaced by the thin flimsy pint glasses of today.
Glass tankard
Grandad pint
It’s got a handle so it’s a pint mug. If it’s the taller one with no handle it’s a pint glass.
That’s a “Barrell” glass up north.
Grenade glass
Very sure you call it a tankard even though tankards traditionally would have the metal lid
I know it’s not the wide name, but I call them “grandad pint glasses”
A mug. Anything with a handle is a mug (according to mum)