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Games

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The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Jiggs dinner: the Sunday boiled dinner named after a cartoon

Jiggs dinner is an old Irish dish from the first settlers.

The salt-beef boiled dinner - salt beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, turnip, pease pudding, figgy duff - is a documented Newfoundland tradition, but the name is not Irish at all: it comes from Jiggs, the Irish-American character in the American comic strip 'Bringing Up Father' (from 1913) who famously loved corned beef and cabbage. Newfoundlanders adopted 'Jiggs dinner' for the dish earlier called pork and cabbage in the 1920s-30s as the comic's popularity spread (CBC, Ainsley Hawthorn).

The story they tell

The yarn that Jiggs was a Newfoundland cook or fisherman. He was a newspaper cartoon character from New York, and the dish's Irishness is in the pot, not the name.

How to get there

Order it any Sunday in most Newfoundland restaurants — the Tourism NL beginner's guide on this card's sources lists where to start; pair it with fish-and-brewis bragging rights.

When

Sundays, year-round

Some story

Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road