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Social Profile Food & Drink Seafood features strongly on most menus; popular local dishes include scallops, fried, baked or grilled, and usually served with tartar sauce. Fish and clam chowders and solomon gundy (a herring dish) are also popular and, of course, lobster and salmon. Lunenburg sausage exemplifies the German influence, as do hugger in buff, fish and scrunchions, Dutch mess and house bunkin - all names for tasty combinations of fish and potatoes covered in cream sauce with onions and salt pork. Desserts make use of plentiful fruit and berries and include a stewed fruit and dumplings dish called grunt, and baked apple dumplings wrapped in pastry and served with cream, sugar or lemon sauce. Beer and alcoholic beverages are sold by the glass in licensed restaurants (food must also be ordered) and in licensed lounges (opening hours generally 1100-1400). Beer by the bottle and draught beer is sold by the glass in taverns, pubs and beverage rooms, which offer great snacks and light meals; opening hours are normally from 1000 until early morning the next day. The Pub District in Halifax is said to be one of the best in North America, with over 55 establishments; the minimum drinking age is 19 years old. Nightlife Nightclubs are mostly centred in Halifax. Scottish bagpipe music and Gaelic songs can be heard all over the territory in concerts, bars, hotels and restaurants. Professional and amateur theatre is very popular; details of forthcoming attractions are available from Tourism Nova Scotia. Special Events For full information on special events, contact Tourism Nova Scotia (see Contact Addresses section). The following is a selection of special events occurring in Nova Scotia in 2005: Feb 11-13 Pictou Winter Carnival. Mar 11-20 Winter Fest, Ingonish - Cabot Trail. Apr 6 Tartan Day Celebrations, Pictou. May 29-Jun 12 Scotia Festival of Music, Halifax. Jun 24-26 Luenburg Summer Opera Festival. Jul 7-11 Halifax Highland Games and Scottish Festival. Aug 13 Firefighter's Fair and Roast Beef Supper, Hubbards - Lighthouse Route. Sep 30-Oct 2 Great Scarecrow Festival and Antiques Fair, Mahone Bay. Oct 7-15 Celtic Colours International Festival. Dec 31 Farewell to 2005, nationwide. |