And the- and there was something called um electrical savings, I don't know what they call it, like a blackout. But it was only at- for like a couple of hours. And I think it was at suppertime. 'Cause I 'member, I was- I 'member this because we used to listen to Queen-for-a-Day which was a - one of those quiz programs where was- women would tell- all these women would tell a sob story and then they would vote and whoever won.

They'd meet him every- he got paid every Friday and they meet him every Thursday. They'd meet every Friday for the pay- get the paycheck so they can buy groceries, and Thursday they had oatmeal for supper.

... Linda went down to the submarine shop and bought submarines for supper and we thought- we tried not to open the refrigerator and we have a- only a- we have a small freezer in the basement ...

Speaker: You did get your supper, around three or four-o-clock in the morning. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Three or four in the morning. Charming. Wow. But I guess you got to see some- Speaker: I think maybe we might have gotten a dollar.

No I uh- when I was brought up- I was brought up ah, I didn't- I wasn't allowed to go out- out after supper at night. And my only night out was going to Cubs on Friday night, from seven 'til nine, that was all, and ah, ah, we were- they were- and I had to go to church with my Mom and Dad.

We have chili leftovers, we have the lantu, maksa, and riisiporkkana leftovers (rutabaga, liver, and rice-carrot), we have ham, we have piirakka (Finnish rice pie), we have ah- we can eat that for lunch and get a pizza for supper or-something.

And I do believe, I wasn't going to the hotel at the time, but I'm sure they closed around the supper hour for an hour or two to make sure all the men left to go home and have their supper. Because men would go there after work and stay.

They would stay. So they would close it, so that they would go home for ah dinner. That was another thing. There was- ah everyone had Sunday supper. You'd look out on the street and there was nothing moving at five, six-o-clock because families, that was their family supper.

It was the war. They needed people. And ah he knew my dad and my mother wanted me out of the house to keep busy, so um I worked there from eight-thirty in the morning until nine at night. Had my lunch and my supper, ah a hamberg cost a nickel and ah a big big drink of chocolate milk was ten-cents, so I could have fifteen-cents for a meal.

Speaker: You're getting hungry I bet. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. Speaker: Ah yeah that's good, that's good. Because I didn't know what I was going to have for supper tonight, and I said to Roy, "Well I'm hungry." And so- and Roy says, "I am too. We're having a big meal tonight." (laughs)

Speaker: Curse words and yeah. Especially the F-word it goes in every sentence it seems to me a lot of it. Interviewer: So that I a change I suppose. Speaker: Yeah it is to me. 'Cause I- when Roy- young Roy came home one da-- and right at the supper table he used it and I- and I just about died because I never heard it too much around, but nowadays it's just- it's part of the language.

Interviewer: Yeah, no it was good talking to you too. Thanks Brenda. Speaker: Yeah yeah good. Yeah. Oh I just enjoyed it. It's fun. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well you come on out I'm gonna see how the supper's coming.

... my job was to break up the big ice-blocks that had come in through the broken wall and chop it up when I- this was when I would come home from Queen-Mary-School. Between then and supper-time. And I'd chop ice in a bucket and throw it out into the river. But there was oil everywhere and you'd slip and land on your fanny.

My mom would- I'd usually go in with her for the ride to pick him up. After supper. Interviewer: So when you were- after supper. Speaker: Yeah yeah because he'd work 'til seven or eight so we'd go in and get him.

... they would often go to Peterborough and go out for supper, and I can't remember where we'd go. There wasn't a lot of places to eat in the forties I don't suppose. But anyway we'd go into Peterborough and go to the show.

Interviewer: For example was Sunday-dinner a tradition? Speaker: Yup, roast-beef. Every Sunday. Every Sunday was roast-beef. That's what we had for supper. Every Sunday.

... Kate was a big bike-rider and I was more of a book-reader so I didn't do a whole lot of stuff outside, but Kate was al- always outside and talking to neighbours and asking people their names and what they're having for supper, and that-sort-oh-thing.

Well we usually get together with them for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, we'll probably see them on Sunday because its Father's-Day. Ah we had them here for supper on Mother's-Day. Ah so the- the major things-like-that.

... my mom she would start work when- uh at seven-o'clock in the morning and ah, would come home for supper, get us our supper and then she would go back to work again and work 'til, lots of nights, still ten-o'clock at night. And ah, it- it was tough for a single lady raising three kids.

And ah, we had- we had one ah, one lady ah her name was Sasha-Johns. After school, we would go to her place and- and we would ah- we would stay there until suppertime and then- and then we would go home when mom got m-- when my mother got home from work.