Types of Ordinary Food During the Day
Pat Smyth
Pat Smyth 21st July 2017 Skylark Centre, Athenry, Co. Galway
Types of Ordinary Food During the Day
Interviewer: Clare Doyle (CD)
Interviewee: Pat Smyth (PS)
CD: Pat, do you remember your first day at school?
PS: I remember, I remember…I don’t remember my first day, the very first day I went…
CD: You were only a small lad then
PS: Yeah
CD: Did you like school
PS: I did, I was in infants
CD: You had a nice time in school?
PS: Yeah, there was low and high infants
CD: That’s right. And do you remember when you went to school what you used for your lunch during the day?
PS: Usually we got ‘summer county butter to put on the bread and they call it, they call it ‘summer county’
CD: And did you like it?
PS: I did
CD: Was it brown bread, was it?
PS: It was brown…cake with bread soda in and…
CD: You’d have that every day, would you?
PS: … and currents, sometimes currents
CD: That sounds nice
PS: Current cake
CD: And would you have a drop of milk or tea or anything with it?
PS: No
CD: Would you not?
PS: No, I wouldn’t
CD: And when went home in the evening time after school, would you have you have your dinner then?
PS: I would
CD: What would you have for the dinner
PS: I’d have potato or turnips
CD: And did you have any meat?
PS: I had bacon or mutton
CD: Yeah
PS: And did you like it?
PS: I did
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