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Market Goods
There are foods that are not truly traditional, but that currently
reflect our culture. They are the “fast food” of our people. Most
of these foods, like most of our meals today, are made from
market goods.

The Eagle’s Nest and Warren’s Olde Time General Store are
stores that offer a variety of foods on Georgina Island. Most
people, though, do their weekly grocery shopping on the
mainland, in the towns of Sutton and Keswick or in the larger
centre of Newmarket.

Corn soup is made using a type of canned or frozen corn called
hominy. When our grandmothers were young, they prepared
the corn by boiling it with hardwood ashes and rinsing it off.
Instead of preparing the corn, we purchase it from ethnic
supermarkets or from ethnic sections of supermarkets.

Here are some of our other favourite foods:
• scone dogs (which are like hot dogs, but wrapped in scone
and fried)

• barbecued steak and corn on the cob, which we like to eat
in the summer
• a traditional meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, and
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cranberries, which many of us eat at Thanksgiving
and Christmas hominy: dried corn with the
hulls removed
As in many other communities, parents on Georgina Island are scone (scawn): a type of baked
or fried bread
forever reminding our children that it is not a good thing to eat
too much junk food!

We use flour and oil to prepare scone. Scone is
fried bread very similar to bannock. Chippewa of
Georgina Island First Nation people also prepare
baked scone. We used to call it “moon” bread
because of the round shape that it was baked in.

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