New Years Tradition - to eat pork - what are yours?

[Jessika]

My only tradition was having my new year's party

[davidpizzica]

In our family it was a tradition to have a pork and sauerkraut dinner on new year's day. As a matter I had a pork and sauerkraut dinner at my brother's house monday. I LOVE sauerkraut!

[.sarah]

I had my traditional black-eyed peas with pork hocks and cornbread. Mmmmmmm... It's a very tasty tradition.

From what I've read the tradition dates back to the Civil War. The Northern soldiers raided the South's food supplies one New Year's Eve night and took all the food except for the dried black-eyed peas and the salted pork. On New Year's day, all that the southern soldiers had to eat were the peas and pork to keep them alive, so it is considered good luck to eat black-eyed peas on New Year's because of this event.

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Ahh, thanks for explaining. Makes sense!

[krazyaboutkatz]

In our family it was a tradition to have a pork and sauerkraut dinner on new year's day. As a matter I had a pork and sauerkraut dinner at my brother's house monday. I LOVE sauerkraut!

This is also true in my family. My mom usually makes it every year and she cooks the pork roast slowly all day with the sauerkraut. She also adds brown sugar to the sauerkraut so it tastes yummy. We also have real mashed potatos with it and use the pork and sauerkraut juices as the gravy. I'm originally from PA and I'm about 3/4ths German. I always thought that people of German descent did this more than others and it didn't matter where you lived.

[dogzr#1]

Lucky you!

I looked on Google and found out it was shredded cabbage that was left to ferment for a couple of weeks. It sounds... odd.

[jenluckenbach]

YUP Pork and sauerkraut on New years day to insure luck during the upcoming year. This is probably the first year in dozens of years I did NOT have this on Jan 1. (I was working at a cat show, had to eat what they had available. Will I now have bad luck all year? )

[wolf_Q]

This is all news to me.......I have never in my life heard of a specific New Years meal. Maybe that's why I have bad luck? I ate doritos and sparkling cidar lol.

My only tradition is to play New Years Day by U2.