Speaker: Wednesday night is wing night. My son cooks it. He's a good cook; he cooks up so I go up for supper on Wednesday night and that's it. Hour up and an hour back. Couple of hours there. Dirty buggers, they always try to- want you to have a drink or two, you-know? And that's bad.

And ah, my dad said, "Oh and where are they living now?" "Oh they live out in the country, out on the Eighth-Line." And he's- "What's their name?" And I- "Well their last name is Moyles." Well, my dad laughed and he said, "You- you get your supper finished, I'll take you and show you where they live 'cause I been there so many times. His- one of- their dad and I used to go out to dances.

Speaker: I-don't-know, there were just so- great buddies. ... Yeah a lot of violin music in our day. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker 2: We- we were at a dance down the street here, Monday night. Speaker: Supper at the legion? Speaker 2: Yeah. ... Monday night.

Speaker: One night he was heading home and Joseph called him, he say, "No, come in for supper." Speaker 2: He- he was- Speaker: Right out of his gate. Speaker 2: He was fencing with me.

Interviewer: You must get really hungry. Speaker: Oh yeah, you do, you g-- well the trouble is if you eat too much, then you can't bend over after supper to do the work, you-know?

And ah, we were at their place for supper the other night and ah, this really large bear and he of-- often comes out into the field below their house in the spring ...

Interviewer: Do you ever do ah foraging for other stuff like wild leeks or ferns (inc)- Speaker: Yeah actually I had leeks last night for supper. Interviewer: Oh did you?

So then the guy- the tall guy says to us, "You better come to the house. Supper's on." Wife's been cooking supper for us so we better take that on too. Not everywhere we get to snack to eat but we- we get offered, we take it.

Supper wasn't quite ready. So we goes a way down this hill.

So while we were sitting, eating supper big big table, all you could eat, lots to eat and the whole nine yard, treated you royally that way. So while we were sitting here eating supper, we looked up above, this big table, there was the biggest chandelier you ever seen. So you wondered well if there's no power here to pump water, what's this thing up here (laughs)?

So we phoned all the neighbours and everybody donated a dish of something. It didn't matter if it was a casserole ah fresh bread or-what. And that's what we did. We put on a supper that that whole family could be together rather than-

Speaker 2: But we always did have chores that had to be done. Speaker: Like the dishes. (laughs) Interviewer: Yeah. (laughs) Speaker 2: Yes, the dishes. (laughs) Interviewer: Yeah, that's a lot. Speaker: But all we had was the supper dishes. Mom always kept the other dishes all done up. Like, there'd just be the supper dishes.

My father worked out at Donrobin-farm. And ah he would give my mother two dollars a week for groceries which was nothing. And ah one night she asked him to stay for supper, he'd say, "(Sigh) I'm going out to the farm, I get better food out there." He was not a nice man from what I understand but I- that's all I know of him.

... I mean there are people in- down at Cobsy's-Gardens, I know you have to convince some of the people that- you-know they think because they're not paying their own way, that somebody pays for it, so you're going to get two- two pieces of pie for supper. If- you got what two pieces, I can have two.

Speaker: We sent her out to the garden to bring in some potatoes for supper. Next thing we heard her shouting, "Where's the potatoes?" Well I said, "You're standing on them." She'd no idea what potatoes- Speaker 2: They come in a bag right? Speaker: I had to go out and pull them and show her what potatoes were.

Speaker 2: Died walking down the road of old age. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Isn't that something? Speaker: A full stomach. He'd been to Jane and Eddie's for supper. Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker: When I was young and we didn't- in the summer you didn't have- could keep meat. And dad would say to- to old Timmy, "Take Beatrice and go down to the lake. Get some meat for supper." I remember catching pike like that. Speaker 2: Oh, you always got pike.

... we ah put the cream in a tub out there and pumped cold water just to cool it down, eh? And ah, so that's ah- get the milking done, put the cows out and chores done, then we in and Mom would be getting supper, if we didn't have it before. Sometimes we ate before we done the chores, but- and ah, my father, ah, if he were home, we might have supper before, but he didn't- chores wasn't his thing.

So you had to go out and get that six-quart basket of potatoes, six-quart basket of beans, a bunch of carrots, you-know it's- and then you got dinner ready and did the dishes, and then you could go play 'til it was time to get something for supper.

Interviewer: Okay. And now were there big square-dances in the harvest in October- t-- in September, October? Harvest dances? Speaker: No, there was more suppers at the church. (both laugh)