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SUNDAY
Breakfast - The Main dish is either
Liver, Ackee & saltfish (codfish),
Mackerel or Red Herring served with any or all of the following,
fried dumpling, fried bammy, boiled banana, boiled dumpling
and yam.
Dinner - Rice and Peas with either (or all)
Chicken, Roast Beef, Curry Goat.
Tossed Salad Baked sweet potato are served on the side.
Drinks - The
drink served with Sunday Dinner is normally special. Examples of
drinks served are carrot juice, soursop juice, beet root , sorrel
if it is in season.
MONDAY-THURSDAY
Breakfast - Sardine, Eggs (fried
or boiled), rundown, fried green or ripe plantation. A bowl of Cornmeal
or Banana porridge is also typical for breakfast. Hot drink- Milo,
Coffee, Holicks, Ovaltine.
Lunch - Patty and cocoa bread, Grotto Bread, Bun
and cheese, Meat loaf, box lunch - which is a smaller version of
a Jamaican dinner.
Drinks- a box
juice, ski juice, suck suck, coconut water, lemonade, syrup, Quench
Aid, Soda.
Dinner- Curry Chicken, Curry Shrimp, Escovitch
Fish, Steam Fish, Oxtails, Stew
Peas, Stew Pork, Tripe and Beans, Cow feet. Steam Beef cabbage with
either salt fish or Corn Beef. Curry
Goat may be served, but it mostly reserved for Sunday Dinners
or special occasions.
Side dish -
Corn, yam, dasheen, cho
cho, boiled corn meal dumpling, Fried plantains, boiled banana.
FRIDAY
Breakfast and Lunch - the same
as Monday -Thursday.
Dinner- No one
cooks. Everyone either eats out or "buy and bring" home.
Typical "buy and bring home" are drum pan Jerk
Chicken or Jerk Pork, fried fish and festival, roast fish, Kentucky
Fried Chicken, Shakey's Pizza. Some even have Roast Yam and Salt
Fish.
SATURDAY
Breakfast - Liver with Banana,
dumpling and Yam, ackee and saltfish with fried dumpling or fried
bammy. Haminy corn
Dinner- Beef
or chicken soup is a must.
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
No special occasion is complete without Curry
Goat. Some place in the country a goat is killed and prepared
to welcome special guests. Manish water and cow cod soup are also a
must for most adult special occasions.
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