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

[.sarah]

We always have pork and black eyed peas on New Years. My Mother is a Southern girl and always insisted that we do this every year. We consider the black eyed peas as our good luck for the coming year.

Same here! But we use ham (though I eat a seperate cooking without the ham since I'm vegetarian).

[Cataholic]

I am from Ohio...but, I don't know that I have heard of this. I will have to ask my parents. As for saurkraut? BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!

My tradition on NYE? To bed early, so I can greet the New Year all fresh and relaxed!!

[ParNone]

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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[.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.

Par...

Ahh, thanks for explaining. Makes sense!

[Suki Wingy]

Never heard of any! I broke my tradition of going out of state and watching it on CNN in a hotel room because I was too sick to make my flight out. My dad came in though so I still spent it about the same way. I really don't see the big deal, time is continuous, we just make up units of time to stay sane and function as an organised comunity, I don't really think it should be a holiday but that is just what I think.

[Uabassoon]

We always eat black eyed peas on New years day in my family. We also eat grapes, you have to eat 12, one for every month. The other tradition is eating bunuelos, it's kind of like a fried flour tortilla with cinnamon and sugar.

[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!

[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.