Posted by Alan Hakim on January 03, 2006 at 00:27:09 from 212.137.221.51 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Bran pie posted by Alex Forbes on January 02, 2006 at 23:58:34:
I hadn't noticed that before. When I was young, the more usual phrase was 'bran tub'. It was a popular fairground game, where a tub was filled with bran or other similar material, with parcels buried in it. You bought a ticket, put your hand in and pulled out a parcel, with no way of seeing what shape it was until you had chosen it.