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01/01/2006 12:33:19 PM · #1 |
Anyone else in the states celebrating New Year's Day with this traditional southern meal? It's been a tradition in my family as long as I've been alive, and as long as my mom has been alive, and so on and so forth. Allegedly, the black eyed peas represent copper (coins) and the greens represent greens...dollars that is. You eat them for prosperity in the new year. I may not get rich, but it sure is tasty anyway. ;)
What are some other traditions folks have for New Years?
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01/01/2006 12:44:07 PM · #2 |
we've only ever ate the black eyed peas and cornbread... maybe the lack of turnip greens is why there isn't any rich folk in my family... lol
Off to buy some turnips... lol
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01/01/2006 12:45:59 PM · #3 |
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01/01/2006 12:50:26 PM · #4 |
I do that, Laurie, but usually with collard greens, sometimes beet greens.
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01/01/2006 12:53:37 PM · #5 |
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01/01/2006 01:29:02 PM · #6 |
growing up we always did the new years day meal..and i am so pathetically superstitious that even now i have to make sure that i have black eyed peas and greens around the house to eat on this day, for fear of the negative repercussions!
although, i always thought the the greens meant money and the peas were for general luck. and also, i always did hate collard greens and turnip greens, so now that i can choose my own greens, i choose spinach, because not only is it green, but gosh darnit--i like it!
Happy 2006 everyone--here's to a fantastic year! |
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01/01/2006 01:48:48 PM · #7 |
I hadn't learned of this until I moved down here! A lady I work with, Miss Brenda, makes the bbbeeessstttt cornbread. Something her family does is puts a penny in the beans and whoever gets the penny in their bowl will get money (goodluck, however that is! :) I don't remember her talking about greens though (for New Years) I'll have to ask her about that.
Mind you....I never liked barbecue or cornbread until I moved to the south....but I had never had 'good food' until I moved here. You can tell by looking at my butt size! :)
The only thing I have found that I don't like so far, is grits and okra.
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01/01/2006 01:53:43 PM · #8 |
Of course we're celebrating with a similar menu here in Purgatory Holler! :-) Turnip greens from this year's garden, black-eyed peas, and cornbread. Standard fare on New Year's Day here in the South! YUMMY!
Message edited by author 2006-01-01 13:54:58. |
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01/01/2006 01:55:37 PM · #9 |
| In the South we also eat Hog Jowl for New Years, although I've only had it once. At one time I was in the grocery business, and we did sell a lot of it! |
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01/01/2006 01:56:45 PM · #10 |
| Yum, yum, yum. I didn't get to have any this year, but I usually do... Funny things, those traditions... |
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01/01/2006 02:03:20 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by dagaleaa:
In the South we also eat Hog Jowl for New Years, although I've only had it once. At one time I was in the grocery business, and we did sell a lot of it! |
yep...hog jowls are also part of the tradition in this part of the south. i don't care for cooked greens but i always make an exception on new years day! (black eyed peas and cornbread is a regular staple food here.) i'm all about traditions and besides, who would want to take the risk of having bad luck?!?!
happy new year!
*hugs to all*
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01/01/2006 02:05:31 PM · #12 |
they do hogs jowl and black eyed peas around here.
not the `they`as in i`m not touching it!
Message edited by author 2006-01-01 14:05:56. |
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01/01/2006 02:13:54 PM · #13 |
We never had the hog jowls but I sure miss the peas and cornbread and okra and fried green tomatoes and butter beans and ham hocks and... ummmm.
No one up here appreciates my cooking them a traditional southern meal. |
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01/01/2006 02:14:14 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
What are some other traditions folks have for New Years? |
In Holland we eat 'Oliebollen' (doughnut balls), 'Appelflappen' (apple turnover) and was them away with champaign. I don't know if that is a very original tradition.
Southern food sure sounds tasty.
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