2006-12-31 06:16:35 · 10 answers · asked by cecilia c 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
It's supposed to bring you good luck & prosperity in the new year.
2006-12-31 06:19:30 · answer #1 · answered by tiny_tim 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Black Eyed Peas are a centuries old New Year’s tradition in many countries, served to ensure health, wealth, and peace for the coming year.
The age old celebration in Great Britain and Scotland called the ‘First Footing’ continues today and always includes a bowl of black eyed pea soup along with a drink to toast the new year at midnight. In the old days people would gather coals from their hearth just before midnight and set out to visit friends in the first minutes of the new year. The first person to step through the door of the family they were visiting was called the ‘first footer’ and was believed to set the luck for the coming year. This person would present the spent coals they had gathered to the woman of the house who would store them away and use them to start the next New Year’s fire. The first footer would get kisses and a hot bowl of black eyed pea soup. First Footing traditions were brought to the U.S. by European immigrants and are still practiced especially in the South and Northeast. With all variations black eyed peas are served for good luck and good health. Sometimes rice and black eyed peas with cabbage or collard greens are served. The rice symbolizes riches, black eyed peas for peace, and cabbage or collards symbolizes money in the coming year.
2006-12-31 15:39:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of that before. My relatives who are from the South (which is the only place I've heard of where people normally eat black eyed peas) have never heard of that either.
2006-12-31 15:16:53 · answer #3 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The peas are your silver (pocket change), the collards are your green money, the ham and cornbread are the fat and strength to get through winter and last until another new year.
2006-12-31 14:26:50 · answer #4 · answered by annabellesilby 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that eating black eyed peas and cabbage on New Years means that you will get money in the new year..
2006-12-31 14:21:57 · answer #5 · answered by Heather S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Eating black eyed peas will bring you good luck, and eating cabbage will bring you money in the New Year.
2006-12-31 14:20:06 · answer #6 · answered by jenn oOh la la 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
supposedly,it brings good luck for the rest of the year.my husband makes it every year.i eat about ateaspoon 2 b polite.its called "hoppin' john" for some reason.
2006-12-31 14:25:42 · answer #7 · answered by Adriel M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you eat ham collard greens and blackeyed peas on new years day you will have good luck all year long.
2006-12-31 14:24:12 · answer #8 · answered by lizzie s 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know...
2006-12-31 14:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ Answer Chick ♥ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what is it?
2006-12-31 14:19:02 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋