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From: "Matt Mullaly" <>(by way of Sue O'Neill <>)
Subject: Re: [NF-ROOTS] Caul Cannon
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:15:07 -0500


The Dictionary of Newfoundland English says:

colcannon n also caulcannon [phonetics unavailable]. Cp OED ~

'an Irish dish' (1774-); DINNEEN cál ceannfhionn 'cabbage, etc, dressed up
with butter, etc.

' A mixture or hash of various vegetables, and sometimes meat, eaten on
Hallowe'en; hence attrib colcannon night; SNAP-APPLE NIGHT.

1896 Dial Notes i, 378 Colcannon night: almost universal in St John's,
Nfld, for Hallowe'en. The name is used by those who eat colcannon on that
night. Others speak of it as 'snap-apple night.' The term Hallowe'en is not
generally used.

1931 BYRNES 120 Remember how on Hallowe'en you ate 'caulcannon' till you
nearly burst, in the fond hope, if you were a maid, of finding the button,
or if you were a youth, in constant fear of finding the button, which doomed
you to irrevocable bachelorhood?

1937 DEVINE 14 ~ The seven kinds of vegetables boiled in one pot and served
on Hallowe'en.

T 34-64 We had colcannon. We used to have our bit of cabbage, have our big
feed of pork and cabbage, you know, and rabbit and perhaps a piece of fresh
pork.

T 347/50-67 Hallowe'en. or snap-apple night, or colcannon night.




> Is there anyone who can tell me about caul cannon?
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