PATRON – Have you ever heard of the dumb supper? It use to be quite popular in Pike County, Alabama
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Never heard of it, but Box Suppers were common place. Single ladies packed a supper in a box and they were auctioned off. She dined with the purchaser of her box.
The box suppers were held once a year at our school
I had a red and white table
I never hear of this. Heard of box suppers. Interesting.
Any male that has been favored to dine about anywhere down in LA (Lower Alabama)
will tell you if they get fed like that, they won’t care what the girl looks like! But in Coffee County, he wouldn’t lose a thing—they’re all living dolls!
I have heard of this. My grandmother, RT Stokes Woodfin was born in 1890. She talked about girls getting together and having a “dumb supper.” She said they also had “backwards suppers” where they had breakfast for supper and wore their clothes backwards. This also included participants walking backwards all the way to the hosts home and eating with the non-dominant hand. She always loved reminiscing over the days of her youth.
Carrie Sue said that this was how she met you at Pemco.
Never heard of this one.
I’ve never read of the dumb supper except as a sometime observed ritual during the time of a death in the family. This mostly involves people sitting at a table during mealtime and not speaking. This practice was not isolated to a specific race, religion nor location and was certainly was not isolated to just Pike County, Alabama nor Alabama for that matter. This ritual was perhaps more common place up north.
Never Hurd of this
My parents grew up in Pike County, AL. Mother would have been there during this time frame & so would several of her sisters. I’ve never heard of that phrase.