2007-01-05 13:07:25 · 10 answers · asked by Britster 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
First foot.
2007-01-05 13:08:42 · answer #1 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean traditions? Like eating black eyed peas? Many people feel like if they eat certain foods on New Years Day that they will have a prosperous or lucky new year. I wouldn't call it 'weird' it's just part of a long standing tradition.
2007-01-05 21:11:40 · answer #2 · answered by i have no idea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people eat black eyed peas. Some think this sets them up for prosperity during the new year, because black eyed peas is a meal normally eaten by middle class & below.
Others eat flan ... mostly Hispanic (I like it too)
2007-01-05 21:10:50 · answer #3 · answered by shepherdjohn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am from the south and grew up being told that you eat black-eyed peas for health,cabbage for wealth,and ham for prosperity. Friends from the north have not heard of this so I wonder if it is a southern thing?
2007-01-05 23:03:11 · answer #4 · answered by Diane T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my family (and lots of others from the Appalachian Mountains), we won't wash clothes on New Years Day.
It's said that if you wash clothes on New Years Day, you'll "wash" a member of your family away and they'll die that year.
I wouldn't believe it, but my grandmother forgot and washed clothes on January 1, 1961 and her husband died that year.
2007-01-05 21:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by Chick-A- Deedle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That eating a lot of cabbage, ham, black eyed peas, and cornbread will actually help me prosper this year.
2007-01-05 21:14:54 · answer #6 · answered by retrodragonfly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my moms southern family always eats black eyed peas on new years day for good luck so i do too
2007-01-05 21:10:05 · answer #7 · answered by kelly r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets all shoot up into the air like the bullets don't come back down.
2007-01-05 21:09:13 · answer #8 · answered by motorcitysmadman2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blackeye peas on new year's day i supposed to bring good luck... and well, i eat them every new year's day... hrm... still waiting for this good luck though, maybe it's stacking up for me and i'll hit a big windfall! heh... there's one for ya though.
2007-01-05 21:10:43 · answer #9 · answered by John F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They call them resolutions, and they forget they made them by the end of January.
2007-01-05 21:08:54 · answer #10 · answered by Néant Humain 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋