A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten.
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Interviewer: Did you have family reunion this year? Speaker: ... no but we are having one. ... um the long weekend in September at the trailer. ... Yup a corn roast. |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
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Speaker: But the club was ideal because there was not- nobody around. It was all family and ah there's no hydro or anything out there but ah it's still good. We had ah- we had a corn roast and- Interviewer: Oh I- it took me a second. I was like a corn roast? What is- but I know what one is (inc). Speaker: Yeah, oh yeah we had a big corn roast for everybody and- |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
I thought we- I'm pretty sure we had a potluck one night. We had a corn roast. But um it was ah- it went good. The only thing we had to do is like- whatever it cost me- like it cost me probably about nine-hundred bucks I guess to get everything. |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
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... then we came to the railway place, it was built up a little bit. And the other side of that was the sandy beach. Trees right to the water. And we used to cut some of the trees down on water, make a spot where it was sandy. Have our picnics. Corn roast, corn- weiner roast down there as kids. |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
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... there was- you-know, other family, kind-of extended family that would come too and we'd have a whole crew and we'd pick potatoes and we'd have a corn-roast and-all-that afterwards. |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
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Speaker: And- well, I used to have a- a corn roast e-- every year. I'd have a cor-- corn roast and invite all the- well my parents did, you-know, but I'd invite all the kids and- Interviewer: That's nice. And then, is that over a fire, again? Speaker: Yeah, yeah, an open fire, yeah. And then my father would put up a big tent in the backyard ... |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
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That was- one of the Thickssons' main corn roasts was on the long weekend in September. So me and another guy cooked fifty-two dozen cobs of corn and drank a bit of rye. |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
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... she was always there. She was always there to get us up in the morning and- and ah yeah they didn't- very seldom did they go- the only time they would go out is to other neighbouring farms where card parties would be going on or corn roast in the fall and yeah. |
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten. |
