My entire family is from the south and none of them (and none of their friends and acquaintances) have ever once heard of blackeyed peas for NYE since everyone eats crowder peas with ham hocks instead.
2006-12-31 09:13:44 · 9 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I think it's more of a regional and cultural thing, rather than a specific type of food. My mom was from Kentucky, and in her area, it was Hoppin' John (black-eyed peas and ham) and a dish of cabbage or some other kind of greens for good luck.
My Dad is from southern Illinois, but his grandmother was straight off the boat from Germany. Their New Year's good luck tradition was pork and some sort of cabbage -- usually sauerkraut and smoked sausage, but sometimes ham and a side dish of pickled red cabbage.
So I guess it's just a matter of where you grew up and your family's ethnic origins. Crowder or black-eyed peas. . .either way, Happy New Year to you and yours!
2006-12-31 09:31:19 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
blackeyed peas signify sturdy luck and cabbage (or any sort of green leafy vegetable) represents funds. the extra you consume, the extra you're meant to get interior the hot 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. i don't comprehend the place this got here from. i basically comprehend that it somewhat is a superstition and it somewhat is what my kinfolk tells me. traditionally, in case you will. i'm unsure if it somewhat is basically a black difficulty or a rustic difficulty. i'm the two (black AND us of a) and that i don't get down with blackeyes peas or cabbage at any time of the three hundred and sixty 5 days. yet another extraordinary new 3 hundred and sixty 5 days's superstitions: not washing outfits on new years day (wash a individual out of the kinfolk - loss of life)
2016-10-19 07:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always heard that for good luck in the New Year, on New Years Eve we eat pork (usually a pork roast), keilbasa, and sourkraut. It has been a family tradition of ours for as long as I can remember, and most of my friends' family does the same also, but we live in the Northeast.
2006-12-31 09:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Miss_CeeBee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have lived in two different southern states - with quite a distance between them - and in both areas it was black-eyed peas.
2006-12-31 09:19:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont have to eat any peas on NYE
2006-12-31 09:22:10 · answer #5 · answered by digby_by 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And what makes the south the correct sayers of what to eat for NYE? I don't eat either
2006-12-31 09:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by ~∂Їβ~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different areas have different traditions. My family doesn't eat either. My dad always believed in having herring for New Years Eve. I don't like it so we have turkey.
2006-12-31 09:17:11 · answer #7 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In akansas it is black eyed peas,,,Maybe it is the the territory like where you live and what your grannie served.
2006-12-31 09:17:21 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I ALWAYS HEARD IT WAS BLACK EYED PEAS FOR NEW YEARS DAY. TO BRING YOU GOOD FOR THE WHOLE YEAR IF YOU EAT ON THE 1ST.
2006-12-31 09:30:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋