Newfoundland And Labrador Going Out
Food and Drink
Regional specialities:
• Dishes make full use of fat pork, molasses, salt fish, salt meat, boiled vegetables and soups.
• Crubeens (Irish pickled pigs' feet).
• Cod made into stews and fish cakes, or eaten fried, salted, dried or fresh - often with scrunchions, crunchy bits of fried fat pork. Salmon, trout and halibut are also available.
• Brewis is a hard water biscuit that needs soaking in water to soften, then gentle cooking; damper dog is a type of fried bread dough.
• Jigg's dinner (a mixture of salt beef, potatoes, carrots, cabbage and turnips) with pease pudding, a traditional family meal.
Regional drinks:
• Available brews include Black Horse, Jockey Club and Dominion Ale, and a variety of ales from Newfoundland-based Storm Brewing (including a hemp ale, a raspberry wheat ale and a coffee porter).
• Screech is Jamaican-style rum that is the historic result of trade between Newfoundland and Jamaica (Jamaica got salt cod in return).
• Tea and Carnation milk.
Legal drinking age: 19.
Nightlife
Shopping
Shopping hours: Mon-Wed 1000-1700, Thurs-Fri 1000-2200, Sat 1000-1800, Sun 1200-1700. (Malls generally open Mon-Sat 1000-2200.) Malls and downtown stores may or may not open on Sundays, according to individual preferences of the owners.
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