AMUSING THINGS WE SAY
“POTH ’UK.” If you have ever invited an unexpected guest to stay and take ••potluck” \riih you. did you know you v.e” • m.-r following an old English eating custom? In olden times, an! as late as the eisht^en-nineties. it was customary for the villagers to keep a large family cooking pot suspended from the fireplace pot-hook. Into this pnt v. .is tossed any edible to keep the pn. boding since th* fire was seldom allowed to die nut. At meal time, the members nf the household went tn the zreat pot and dished out the< nun dinner which v as dubbed •’potluck.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 293, 12 December 1941, Page 4
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