Jiggs dinner

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Jiggs dinner is a Sunday staple across Newfoundland and the Atlantic provinces—a humble boiled dinner of corned beef and cabbage that became iconic through a comic strip character's appetite. The dish takes its name from Jiggs, the central figure in the long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father, whose love for this particular meal made it memorable enough to anchor a regional tradition. You'll hear locals call it JD, boiled dinner, or cooked dinner depending on where you are, but the dish itself remains constant: salt-cured beef and soft cabbage, built on simplicity.

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Jiggs dinner, also called boiled dinner or cooked dinner, is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in Newfoundland and other Atlantic provinces. Corned beef and cabbage was the favourite meal of Jiggs, the central character in the popular, long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus and Zeke Zekley. The name of the dish is also occasionally rendered as Jigs dinner or Jigg's dinner, and it may be referred to colloquially as JD.

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