What do you eat on New Years Day for good luck? Stopped by the bank today and they were giving out cans of black eyed peas for a lucky new year. Do you have a tradition in your family? Is black eyed peas just a southern thing?
Bev
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Like Meganne and Nannynorfolk I dont know about black eyed peas - apart from the band. My mother always made a thing of New Years Eve and we had to have a man with dark hair come through the door just after midnight carrying a lump of coal. Sadly I dont remember why, but probably to symbolise wealth. We would have a family party on New Years Eve. My dear friend who bought me my Galaxie3000 would always be told on the 31st by her father that they were not going to feed her again that year and being too young to understand it really worried her
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115771I do remember having black eyed peas and ham or port alot - growing up - around New Year's - but I never really knew the traditon or meaning of it - until I lived in NC - we also would sit on a coin - to bring financial good to the home for the upcoming year. We might have done that part wrong - as we always were in the hole - the whole year. Happy New Year.
211079Cabbage. It has to be cabbage of some sort. So we usually have cole slaw or saurkraut or something like that. I thought that came from the British side of my family. My husband likes the black eyed peas, and I though that came from the Swedish side. Mostly we just have lots of deli salads and meats and watch the Rose parade in the morning and football in the afternoon and evening. It's a lazy day around here.
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by lflanders
30 Dec 2011
I can not even begin to imagine what black eyes and cabbage could do to the air in the room! heehee! Maybe that would be a good reason for a candle! I don't believe I said that!
59631We always have Black Eyed Peas ( sometimes Hoppin' John ) ( for Good Luck & coins ) , Pork ( usually Pork Chops ), turnip greens ( for Dollar Bills ) I always add slaw for the greens ( $ ) and because it makes the meal .
Happy New Year to everyone. Nancy
16513PS I'm deep frying a Duck because we are warm.
Should be good. We had grilled steak on Christmas
because it was so nice outside.
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37638Never heard of it but one time I was with a family who ate a little bowl of grapes on the countdown to
New Years.
Hugs
Linda aka Bumblebee
37638my mom was a mountain country girl - the blue ridge mountains of galax virginia so needless to say black eyed peas with salt pork topped with raw onions and corn bread, yum!
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by lflanders
30 Dec 2011
Very well put Karen!!!! I gues it must be a Southern thing if everyone has not heard of it! I baked a ham last night, cut it all off the bone, save the stock and part of the ham hock and called my son to remind him to go get some Blackeyes and come my house to get the seasoning. He just laughed and informed me that they already had the peas! I just imagine that I will have to cook the corn bread. Needless to say, but I was born and raised in Georgia! My Mom, when she was still with us also made a tradition of fixing cubed steak smothered with gravy to go with the peas and cornbread. I do not think I have had any good cubed steak since she left us! Her's was always so tender that you did not need a knife to cut it and it was not greasy. The peas and steak and gravy that come from a resturant just will not make the grade!!!The peas are usually too hard and the gravy is always too greasy! It has to be home made! "Welcome to the South"!
17161Bev,
Since I was a small girl (now, an OLD lady), my family always ate black eyed peas and pork on New Years Day for good luck. I have continued the tradition throughout the years with my own family. Actually, I love the dried black eyed peas cooked with ham pieces. Whenever I bake a ham, I save the bone with bits of ham to season those wonderful black eyed peas. Black eyed peas are full of healthy minerals, as well as delicious, so I cook them at other times, not just New Years!
Happy New Year, Cuties!!
Angel
12500In spain EVERYONE eats 12 grapes when the clock strikes midnight. One at each strike for luck.
57801I've never even seen black eyed peas.
Who would going around giving peas black eyes anyway? What did the peas ever do to deserve black eyes?
Really! It's bad enough we joke about eating them with honey to keep them on the fork....
But black eyes, the poor peas.
OH OK, I've done it to death! hahahahahahaha
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by lflanders
30 Dec 2011
I think the honey/sugar in the peas it to keep the air afterwards smelling better.
by bevintex
30 Dec 2011
Just don't give any to the dogs! lol Thanks for the laugh Linda. Hope you have a healthy and happy new year
Bev
122864Black-eyed peas, corned bread and cabbage! My mom made us eat it every year when we were growing up in Texas! :)
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30I grew up in PA, Was born & raised there, and am part Pa Dutch, so my "Good Luck" food is Pork & Sauerkraut, but I am allergic to Pork (makes me deathly sick) so we get beef hot dogs & sauerkraut. Hahaha! Also, we are to eat this at midnight. My DH is the Black eyed peas person, but he forgoes it often cause I just plain do not eat them!!! Hugs, & Happy New Year, Judy
92391I've never heard of black eyed peas at New Years. It was alway pork and sauerkraut in the PA Dutch area where I grew up. Still keep up the tradition even though we've long since moved out of the area. Other traditions were a dark haired man had to be the first one through the door New Year's Day and a bayberry candle was burned (in the sink for safety sake) through New Year's Eve into New Year's day. ("A bayberry candle burnt to the socket, brings go luck and gold in your pocket" LOL, I wish!) Happy New Year to you, no matter what's on the menu! Hugs, Deb
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70755Not sure Bev, but they are also a good band -lol :)
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