Jiggs dinner, also called boiled dinner or cooked dinner, is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in Newfoundland and other Atlantic Canadian provinces. Its name comes from Jiggs, the central character of the long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus and Zeke Zekley, whose favourite meal was corned beef and cabbage. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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