So ah, we would go get her for- take her for coffee and shopping in the afternoon. And ah, if we had something going on, she would come over for supper and-that, so she wasn't ah- she wasn't, like an invalid.

Oh yes, she liked- she would look forward to the bingos and ah, she ah, enjoyed when they had big ah, suppers, where y-- the kids could come. And w- like, a potluck supper and-that, she enjoyed that a lot. Yeah.

It just looks like chicken. It almost tastes like chicken too. And she cooked up a batch one night and we're having supper and Judith found out it was rabbit, she (laughs)- she wouldn't eat them then. "You eaten my rabbits!" (Laughs)

My mom would be calling us in after dark for supper after my dad got home and-that um which we don't tend to be outside so much now in the- in the winter, I-don't-know if it's because of my age or- or if it's just the whole trend you-know ...

... my dad ah after my brother said, "No, never learned a thing," he ah he thought he was being so smart, and my dad said, "Well, after supper, you're going to go to the encyclopedias and you're going to write a page about something, you're going to find in that encyclopedia and you're going to write a page about what you've learned out of that encyclopedia ...

Speaker: No, we went down to Toronto because um- Interviewer: Visiting the kids- Speaker: The kids were there and we went out for supper. No, we didn't! Aveena cooked supper at home for us.

And then we still have a bit of our Italian club left over. ... And we get together every once in a while for a little social with them. There's only about I say twenty, twenty-two that are active. ... And ah we ah go out for supper or we get together and we ah ah bring food in and have just like a social evening, eh.

We used to do the like the Italian food- ... And the Ukrainian halls and the Polish halls, they would do their cabbage rolls and perogies and things like that. They'd come to our suppers, we'd go to theirs.

Speaker: "By five-o'clock I've had my supper and I'm fishing." I said "You, for Christ's sakes, you're not even out of the hou-- out of the- out of the factory yet." Eh? So. Interviewer: So you must have cleaned yourself up pretty good if you were an alcoholic before you were thirteen.

And it started at Kirkland and the Italian-Club took on that they gave them a certain amount of money because it was not funded at that time. And they gave them a- ah, a certain amount each year, so that was their main project, when they raised money with suppers, or-whatever, steak dinners, and whatever they served. And pretty proud of that.

Their big day was ah, what do you call it, Valentine's-Day? ... And the odd- the red tableclothes and the bottles and the little candle linen and the supper, the spaghetti supper and then the beautiful meals to follow, and that went on for years and years. And this was one way how they raised their monies for this- the- for the ah, challenged children.

They're great cooks and she- they- there- that's a big challenge, they look after- one cook looks after over a hundred meals for supper, one girl.

Speaker: ... of-course you can see that I'm a little bit of a talker, so I get downtown at one-o-clock, I wouldn't get back 'til four (laughs). Interviewer: (laughs). Speaker: Start supper for nine people, come-on, eh? Interviewer: Oh no. So you just- why you just run into people. Speaker: Yeah, eh. They couldn't get away from me. I got them (laughs). No, no, no-

It's nice, going on the bus and if- you're on you-know the accordion going and people singing and then at the suppers for the Italian-Club, he'd be going up and down, playing his Mamma-Mia, and Old-Rose- what do you call- ooo. I forget (laughs).

Those dance clubs, there you could go and jidder-bugs or what- jigger- bug jidder-bug and you-know, dance and have place to go and sleigh rides and you-know, pancake suppers and yeah, it was always something to do-

Interviewer: Right. So growing up and even to this day was- was fishing, something that was popular in- in your family. Speaker: Yeah. We used to go ah after supper. We'd go to Nighthawk-Lake and we'd have supper and go and sit on a rock with our fishing rods.

Speaker: Way back then. We did what we wanted to do and we'd had walk home. Be back home in time to help with the chores at night. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: Was always being out feeding the cows or hay and-that before supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And then you come in and had supper and then after supper then you'd go out to milk.

... he got a car from his friend and we drove to Liskeard out to his dad's farm out in Diamond-Township. ... And ah, they had some of their relatives in. See it wasn't a big deal then- ... Getting married. ... And we had supper out there and-

Like we're all good friends, but the- not like a- maybe on a Sunday afternoon, you'd go to an aunt's place and have supper-

... they'd come up and the first thing that it- we'd move from the house here and stay in the cottage- you-see for the summer. And the first thing- they'd come in and say- they'd lift up the- the pot and see- "What are we having for supper ma? And w-- what have you got to drink?", and-everything. I said, "Now, B-U-B- bring your own beer. Bring your on booze, food and you can fight all you want at your own cottage." And somebody said, "That was a stroke of genius."