This week we are taking a look at the role of food at the Frosty Festival. From pancake breakfasts to dinner theatre, to the ever popular Jigg's Dinner, you are hard pressed to attend an event at the Frosty Festival and not be fed.
Studies have shown that sharing food with others helps build a sense of trust, a sense of community and a sense of belonging - an experience that is exemplified when people are eating the exact same food*. It is no wonder then, why food plays such an integral role in our memories. Food at the Frosty Festival fuels the community building that already exists in the Festival's structure - and besides, who doesn't enjoy a meal with friends.
“One time when we had the Jigg’s Dinner planned the caterer was in an accident on his way to the Reid Centre and the potatoes got kind of lost. Anyway, people were complaining, not enough potatoes and things like that. I was stood there with my Mount Pearl badge on and everything, I took it and put it inside my sweater so nobody would know who I was [laughter] I said I can’t answer any more questions. That was a funny night I can tell you.” - Agnes Murphy, 2020
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| Old Fashioned Jigg's Dinner, 2019 Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Old Fashioned Jigg's Dinner, 2019 Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"The breakfasts that’s another big thing today, we have two breakfasts and it is packed, I mean it sells out. That’s where you can bring your children to the breakfasts. And food, the dinner theatre, that’s another big hit, dinner and dance, the closing dinner and dance, more food. Even if we have a card game you have soup and sandwiches, you know you have spaghetti dinners. It’s all about food [laughter] - Agnes Murphy, 2020
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| Pirates and Princesses, 2018. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Pirates and Princesses, 2018. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Pancake breakfast, 2011. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"Well if anyone knows Newfoundlanders, or mostly anybody, the gatherings are always around food. Whether it’s your Sunday dinner, your Thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas meal or if it was just having somebody drop in for a cup of tea. And true to Newfoundlanders, we never just say drop in for a cup of tea, because you knows what goes along with a cup of tea, the cheese, the crackers, the jams, the butters come out of the cupboards, and everything, so you sit down and yeah, but I think with the food as regards to, it brings people closer together. The Jigg’s dinner is a sell out every year, the dinner theatre is a sell out" - Dave Lythgoe, 2020
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| Dinner theatre, 2006. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Pancake Breakfast, 1992. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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