School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   ate meat. When they did, it was nearly always salted. They had fish always. They were called salt herrings. They had very little vegetables. They had cabbage, turnips and potatoes. People never ate late at night, because when they ate their supper at six o'clock they went to bed and they got no more food until next morning. People ate the same food on feast days as any other day of the week. Or if they had it was nearly always a bit of salt meat, because in the olden times people very seldom ate meat. Feast days were the same as any other concerning food they ate. It was very seldom tea was drunk in the olden times. About sixty years ago people never drank tea. They might get a drop for Christmas. About 1887 tea became common. It was very seldom you would see cups. It was pint saucepans they used and before the saucepans came into use, they used timber mugs and eatherware.

   

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2. Food in Olden Times

   “Three meals in the day that they used to eat long ago.”

   

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   Three meals in the day that they used eat long ago. The meals they used eat were of potatoes and sour milk. They ate the breakfast at eight o'clock, the dinner at twelve o'clock, and supper at six o'clock. People used work from six o'clock to eight before their breakfast. Sometimes

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Molyneaux

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dooncaha, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   John Mangan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49

   Address

   Dooncaha, Co. Kerry