chicken supper

noun, a community dinner, often a church fundraiser, where chicken is served; see also church supper, turkey supper

“He was saying about coming over here playing for dances, like they used to have a chicken supper. The Catholic church had a big chicken supper every February.”

“But, like, when they used to have those chicken suppers, you know, and I can remember after the supper they’d clear the hallway and have a dance.”

“… like the chicken suppers and picnics and so on; nobody had a refrigerator.”

“There was Bingo, you know, but that’s what paid for the church is those chicken suppers.”

“They’d have a chicken supper in the middle of the winter along in February in the Parish Hall upstairs. And they’d have a dance going downstairs and all these people upstairs and two or three cookstoves just steamboating, you know, heating the gravy and potatoes and all this kind of stuff.”

“Well they’d come from Cape Vincent. They’d come over for the chicken suppers, you know, and a dance.”

“They had to raise money to pay for everything. And that’s why they’d have all these different things in the hall. Chicken suppers, and all that kind of thing.”