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Jiggs dinner is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in many regions around the province of Newfoundland and Labrador Canada. Corned beef and cabbage was the favorite meal of Jiggs the central character in the popular long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus and Zeke Zekley after whom the dish is likely named. The name of the dish is also occasionally rendered as Jigs dinner or Jigg’s dinner.