DCHP-2

blueberry grunt Blueberry Grunt DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — predominantly Atlantic Canada, Food

  a dessert of stewed blueberries or other fruit topped with dumplings (see Image 1).

  Type: 2. Preservation — The origins of blueberry grunt are contested. However, the term refers to a dessert that appears to have been enjoyed for a long time in the Maritimes (see the 1997 quotation) and in adjacent American states. According to Casselman (1998: 58), the name seems "to have been borrowed or brought up to Canada by Loyalists from New England". The term seems to have spread westward to Saskatchewan from the Maritimes (see Chart 1). Blueberry grunt is of higher frequency in Canada than elsewhere (see Chart 2).
  See also ITP Nelson, s.v. "grunt", which is marked "Atlantic Canada & New England", and DARE, which is marked as "chiefly NEng" and DPEIE, which marks the term as "Maritimes and New England".
  

  See also: butter tart  blueberry buckle