noun, a fundraising event at which boxed lunches are auctioned to raise funds, often such that the purchaser shares the meal with the person who prepared it (COD)
“Well the social life was much different than now. We didn’t have television. We didn’t have hydro then either. And so they had the box social.”
“I remember the first one that I got — at one of those box socials — was Nancy.”
“There would be house parties too and box socials — they called them box socials. Everybody took a box with a meal in it. Or a lunch. And they put numbers on them. And the girls would take them, and the boys would draw the numbers, and they would have to eat with the person.”
Words of Wolfe Island 