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Pork pie or Porkie pie, often shortened to porky, is the Cockney rhyming slang term for lie. This was alluded to in a Labour Party broadcast during the 1997 UK general election, entitled 'John Major's Pork Pie Factory'. In Yorkshire, a pork pie is sometimes referred to as a "growler" and also in some parts of Jersey. In some parts of Yorkshire, especially West Yorkshire (and more so, Halifax), pork pies are called "stand pies". In New England and Quebec (tourtières), pork pies have been made for over a century. Their popularity with mill workers led to the rise of a Fall River slogan "city of mills, hills, and pork pies." One particular bakery in the south side of Glasgow specialises in hot pork pies, they refer to them as a "Casper" as the pastry is so pale. The invention of this pie is accredited to the master baker Gary James Muirhead