<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Jiggs dinner, also called boiled dinner or cooked dinner, is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in many regions around the Atlantic provinces of 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 . </P> <P> The name of the dish is also occasionally rendered as Jigs dinner or Jigg's dinner . In the rendering "Jigg's dinner", the apostrophe is incorrectly placed if in reference to the McManus character . Sometimes referred to colloquially as "JD", "Jiggs dinner" is the most common of all renderings . </P>

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