If you want good luck in 2016 here's what you have to do....
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
December 27, 2015 10:18am CST
Of course you want good luck, who doesn't?! The Southern tradition is that in order to have good luck in the new year you have to eat Black Eyed Peas on New Year's Day.
Don't forget, I'am a Yankee transplant, so the best I can muster up is Bush's Black Eyed Peas in a can. I don't do pork or whatever else people put in the peas. I'm a purist anyway!
I just have one problem....just because I have the peas in the cabinet doesn't mean I'll remember to serve them on Friday! I need a reminder system because I don't want to cheat myself out of good luck all year long!
Photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_eyed_peas_(16167751712).jpg
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
27 Dec 15
We had a tradition here in England which was still popular when I was a child, but now seems to have been forgotten. Somebody would leave the house before midnight and return after midnight when the New Year had arrived carrying a piece of coal and some bread.
This signified that the household would have heat and food throughout they year.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
27 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill Since coal fires are virtually non existent here nowadays the tradition gradually ceased over the years.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Dec 15
@Asylum Coal is bad, literally!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Dec 15
That sounds like a nice tradition.
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@antonbunot (11146)
• Calgary, Alberta
27 Dec 15
I did not know that! But my wife always cook noodles (we call it pansit) on Christmas, New Year (January 1), and birthdays! Eating noodles gives long life!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Dec 15
I guess there are lots of different foods to enjoy for New Year's depending on where you live. I love noodles!
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
27 Dec 15
Here in Italy we are supposed to eat lentils which come close I guess. I loe them and eat them not only at the end of the year but throughout it too. Pushing my luck a bit?
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Dec 15
Lentils are probably cousins to the peas! I like lentils better than the peas.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jan 16
hubby always wants to do that, I guess I just dont get it
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
1 Jan 16
I prefer not to buck the good luck!
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@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
27 Dec 15
I heard something like that to have black eyed peas in your Friday meal.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
28 Dec 15
Most of the 14 years we've been in the south I buy the peas and forget to eat them.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
29 Dec 15
@softbabe44 I will put them out on the counter today, that way I'll be sure to see them (I hope)
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
28 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill Well that's easy to forget its there then remember that you have them I have done that before putting them behind something.
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
28 Dec 15
I always have sauerkraut (for my german roots) and blackeyed peas (for the south) on new years day
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
28 Dec 15
Maria - hi there!!! My paternal grandfather's side of the family was German and when I was a kid we had lots of sauerkraut, my stomach couldn't deal with that now!
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
28 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill I love sauerkraut to this day. How you doing my dear?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Dec 15
This is like the opposite of walking under a ladder..it's just for fun.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Dec 15
Yes they do and so does Bush Beans - they are the bean people in the south!
@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
28 Dec 15
Make sure there is a dime in the pot as the person who gets the dime will have extra good luck.
