Carbondale’s 114th annual Potato Day celebration is almost here. The event is slated for Oct. 6-8. The theme, “Growing Together,” honors the 100th anniversary of the Colorado Potato Growers Exchange development, started 1923. Though the.
Posted: May 09, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: May 9
The name Jiggs dinner is actually a long outdated pop culture reference, writes Ainsley Hawthorn.(Submitted by Dan O Rourke)
Salt beef, cabbage, potato, carrot and turnip, all boiled together in a single pot. Jiggs dinner sometimes spelled Jiggs , Jigg s or jig s dinner is a beloved traditional meal across Newfoundland and Labrador, the province s version of comfort food.
But where did it get its strange name? Ask around and you ll turn up a mixed bag of answers.
Forum users at the proofreading website Pain in the English offered these suggestions: Traditional Jigg s dinner is derived from kitchen parties when we all got together for some great fun this is usually what was served.… To do a jig means to dance.