The last meal of the day; (contextually) the time at which this is eaten, supper time. Also: the food eaten at such a meal. Often without article, demonstrative, possessive, or other modifier.
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Interviewer 2: And what sort of work would you do? Speaker: Oh go out and work for the church. Had suppers and all suppers and like make money for the church. |
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Then they always had a supper after night- at night time, a dinner. they had that in the big hall, but they didn't have the big hall in the first place that was only about ten years ago, oh I can't really remember. I just don't feel I could tell you. |
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From my childhood there was lots of things that my dad used to tell me just kind of silly, some of them were silly little things but just like father would tell to his children. He used to come in sometimes for his supper and if the meal wasn't ready, there was naturally almost always a baby in the home. So, he'd take the baby on his knee ... |
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Another one was, "a monkey married a babon's sister smacked his lips and then he kissed her. Kissed so hard he raised a blister and she set up a yell. And then what do you think they had for supper? Black-eyed beans and bread and butter. Pickled oysters too and they had some mulligatawny soup, mackerel, lander, sole, a bath bonnet and a tuppenny sausage roll. Two or three quarts of sherry and two or three pints of cham, some rolly-polly pudding and some jam, jam, jam." |
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Speaker: It was a great event because people came from many miles around even came from Montreal, not only one or two to entertain but to attend the supper. Interviewer: What would they do at a Tea-meeting? Speaker: Well, first of all they would have a grand supper. |
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I think one year we made a-hundred-and-seventy-eight dollars, clear money and ah we worked really hard. And we used to put on suppers for fifty cents and luncheons for a quarter. |
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Maybe we need a piano or-something-like-that and they donate whatever revenue they have. They may have ah a sale of ah auction sale of used goods or ah they'll have a turkey supper and sell tickets. They raise their money in various ways. |
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Interviewer: What sort of um social events did the church provide? You mentioned things like hockey rinks and-that-sort-of-thing. What else was there? Speaker: Well, there was young people's leagues, and- and ah- well we always had social evenings and get-togethers and um like suppers, (inc) team meetings and then the children in the Sunday-school had sleigh-drives and picnics and parties during the year, Halloween parties. |
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Well then after dinner you-see, why Saint-Paul's puts the supper on for the two ah- two settings. One for the hundred and the other usually for the hundred-and-twenty-five. |
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Interviewer: Um were there any activities in the church outside of the regular service? Speaker: No, not too much. Speaker 2: They had there Eper-- Eper's. Speaker: The-- they'd- they'd have suppers like ah- yeah, yeah. |
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She was a marvellous mimic. She's come down to our house on Saturday-afternoons, she used to perform in the little theatre in Belleville for pocket money because her family didn't have very much and then she'd come up to the house for supper and she would pick up a- a table-cloth or a piece of anything and just- she couldn't help but be funny whatever she was doing. |
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And then she came up the stairs and brought it from the kitchenette into the dining-room table. So we had our breakfast there and our dinner and supper. |
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They'd pick up the pots of beans and the bread and- and the bread and butter, every person would come laden to the, um- to the, ah, meeting hall and we'd wind up with a bean supper after skating all night, see. |
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Interviewer: And the others- what did you call the extra meals then? Speaker: Well, we called it, ah, ah, our tea. Our- our- before four-o-clock- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: They always called the men in to get tea. Interviewer: Tea. That was tea? Speaker: Yeah. And, ah, then, ah, the- what we called supper was shortly- we took before we went to bed. Interviewer: Yes. So you had four good- Speaker: Four meals. Interviewer: Four good meals a day. |
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Speaker: And we needed a lot of meat. And we had meat for breakfast, meat for dinner and meat for supper. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: So that, ah- and then for supper we had our warmed up potatoes. See, we had our dinner at twelve-o-clock. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And at supper we'd have warmed up potatoes that was left from dinner and cold meat. |
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About three-o-clock he'd come in and I'd have the supper ready then from whatever the dinner for my husband. ... 'Cause he didn't come home for dinner, he took a lunch. But, oh, it was a busy life, you-know- |
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Speaker: Well, ah, I don't know why they called it the tea meeting. Interviewer: 'Cause the- 'cause the next meal is your tea isn't it? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: But, no, ah, it was the tea meeting and we all went and- and we would go, like, for supper. And then they'd have a program after that. |
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Speaker: ... but I remember so well that we'd potato salad every meal. Not every meal but every day, you-know, for supper for a long time. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Potato salad and cold meat. |
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And, ah, we'd have that with a piece of cake for supper. And that was- different all- the menu was altogether different- ... Than what it is now. |
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Interviewer: What do you mean wake- wake them? Speaker: Wake them here, an open casket, you-know? People come here, you-know, and- Interviewer: Oh. Interviewer 2: Pay respect? Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Have a meal, have a supper, you-know. The women prepare a meal, you-know, and- Interviewer 2: Yeah. But what- after the- after the burial did they all come together and have another supper- Speaker: Oh yeah, the friends did. Just mostly the friends. |
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