Jiggs dinner
Jiggs dinner is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in many regions around the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Named after a comic strip character, the dish is sometimes spelled Jigs dinner or Jigg's dinner. (Alternately, it's possible that the meal is named after the cod-jiggers of Newfoundland who used to eat this meal)
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[edit] Ingredients
The meal typically consists of a combination of pickled salt beef (or salt riblets), boiled potatoes, carrot, cabbage, turnip, turnip greens, bread pudding, dressing, pease pudding, and a cooked turkey, chicken or beef roast. Condiments sometimes include mustard pickles, pickled beets, cranberry sauce and butter.[1]
The leftover vegetables from Jiggs dinner are often mixed into a pan and fried to make a dish known as "cabbage hash" or "corned beef and cabbage hash."
[edit] Comic strip connections
Corned beef and cabbage was the favorite meal of Jiggs, the central character in the popular, long-run comic strip, Bringing Up Father, by George McManus. In the term "Jigg's dinner", the apostrophe is incorrectly placed in reference to the McManus character. The name "Jiggs dinner" is used much more extensively than "Jigg's dinner".
[edit] See also
- Caspar Milquetoast
- Corned beef
- Dagwood sandwich
- Dream of the Rarebit Fiend
- New England boiled dinner
- Popeye spinach
