Do you do the Black Eyed Pea thing on New Year's Day?

[Gracie Dean]

for as long as I can remember we have always had Black Eyed Pea's and Ham New Years Day. There is some superstition with it. I guess the more you eat, the more prosperous you will be the following year.


My Menu for New Year's Day dinner.

Huge spiral cut ham with brown sugar and pineapple
Black Eyed Peas
Mashed Potatoes and gravy
Greens

[luv]

You're REALLY into New Year's, aren't you?

[Gracie Dean]

You're REALLY into New Year's, aren't you?

YES, I love it.

Fresh start


Shed the bad

Hope for the good.



I don't know, just something that brings hope.

[Simply Red]

for as long as I can remember we have always had Black Eyed Pea's and Ham New Years Day. There is some superstition with it. I guess the more you eat, the more prosperous you will be the following year.


My Menu for New Year's Day dinner.

Huge spiral cut ham with brown sugar and pineapple
Black Eyed Peas
Mashed Potatoes and gravy
Greens

yo girl, hey umm, try a lil' ham base and vidalia's in your peas, also, drizzle each serving lightly w/ olive-oil, that ham base is available in a jar by the boullioun ((sp))

[luv]

YES, I love it.

Fresh start


Shed the bad

Hope for the good.



I don't know, just something that brings hope.

I can tell. Three threads about it today. I'm just giving you a hard time. I actually love it too, and for the same reason.

[chiefs1111]

No,but i do the getting drunk on New Year's Day thing though.

[bevischief]

Never heard of this one might have to try it...

[Gracie Dean]

Never heard of this one might have to try it...

We didn't do it last year and we had a really CRAPPY year.

I don't really believe it, but I don't not believe it either...

[TinyEvel]

I'll listen to The BlackeyedPeas on New Years Day.

[bevischief]

We didn't do it last year and we had a really CRAPPY year.

I don't really believe it, but I don't not believe it either...

Same here might have to do the same thing...

[TrickyNicky]

I'll listen to The BlackeyedPeas on New Years Day.
Thats what I thought this thread was about at first glance

[bevischief]

Thats what I thought this thread was about at first glance

ROFL

[Fairplay]

Black eyed peas superstition reasoned out by Fairplay.

Okay, times were tough. The only thing to eat around the house were black eyed peas. The kiddies are crying because they don't want to eat it. You make up a line of b.s. that they are good luck for the new year.

The story lives to tell the tale from one generation to the next.


The end.

[RJ]

for as long as I can remember we have always had Black Eyed Pea's and Ham New Years Day. There is some superstition with it. I guess the more you eat, the more prosperous you will be the following year.


My Menu for New Year's Day dinner.

Huge spiral cut ham with brown sugar and pineapple
Black Eyed Peas
Mashed Potatoes and gravy
Greens


Mine will be the same, except mac and cheese instead of mashed taters.

[RJ]

Black eyed peas superstition reasoned out by Fairplay.

Okay, times were tough. The only thing to eat around the house were black eyed peas. The kiddies are crying because they don't want to eat it. You make up a line of b.s. that they are good luck for the new year.

The story lives to tell the tale from one generation to the next.


The end.


I make black eyed peas because I like them and I enjoy traditions.

[Fairplay]

I love veggies also, just making humor.

[Bearcat]

Never heard of it (and thought this was about a concert, too).... never done it myself, and I've had good and bad years. Weird...

;)

[Hammock Parties]

I'll probably have a hot pocket. Tradition can lick my sweaty nuts.

[Bane]

Yes.The wife always makes black eyes peas for dinner on new years day.

[RJ]

I love veggies also, just making humor.


I like humor even better than veggies.

[chiefs1111]

Ill be grilling steaks and making baked potatoes

[Lumpy]

Thats what I thought this thread was about at first glance

Same here, but I couldn't imagine too many people get up on stage and piss themselves on New Year's Day. I could be wrong. :shrug:

[RippedmyFlesh]

We had lentil soup for good luck on new years when I was a kid never knew why.

[Pablo]

I GOT THAT BOOM BOOM POW..THESE CHICKAS JOCKIN MY STYLE..THEY TRY AN COPY MY SWAGGER...I'M ON THAT NEXT SHIT NOW

I'M SO 3008...YOU'RE SO 2000 AND LATE

[Skip Towne]

The black eyed pea tradition goes back a long way. My mom was doing that 50 years ago.

[KCChiefsMan]

I've usually ordered pizza delivery because I would be too damn hung over to get any food, let alone make anything.

[LaChapelle]

Do they bounce off the back of the toliet bowl when you throw them up

[Manila-Chief]

Black eyed peas superstition reasoned out by Fairplay.

Okay, times were tough. The only thing to eat around the house were black eyed peas. The kiddies are crying because they don't want to eat it. You make up a line of b.s. that they are good luck for the new year.

The story lives to tell the tale from one generation to the next.


The end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-eyed_pea

In the American South

New Year's Day in Alabama: black-eyed peas, ham hock, and pepper sauce

Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day is thought to bring prosperity in the Southern United States.[3] The peas are typically cooked with a pork product for flavoring (such as bacon, ham bones, fatback, or hog jowl), diced onion, and served with a hot chili sauce or a pepper-flavored vinegar.

The traditional meal also features collard, turnip, or mustard greens, and ham. The peas, since they swell when cooked, symbolize prosperity; the greens symbolize money; the pork, because pigs root forward when foraging, represents positive motion.[4] Cornbread also often accompanies this meal.

These "good luck" traditions supposedly date back to the American Civil War. Union troops, especially in areas targeted by General William Tecumseh Sherman, typically stripped the countryside of all stored food, crops, and livestock, and destroyed whatever they couldn't carry away. At that time, Northerners considered "field peas" and field corn suitable only for animal fodder, and didn't steal or destroy these humble foods.[5]

[philfree]

Pork Roast,Black Eyed Peas...Sour Kraut and fried taters...With a dime under my plate....Corn bread too....

PhilFree:arrow:
God bless....

[KcMizzou]

Pork Roast,Black Eyed Peas...Sour Kraut and fried taters...With a dime under my plate....Corn bread too....

PhilFree:arrow:
God bless....Now I'm curious...

[philfree]

Now I'm curious...



It's a Family Tradition! A dime under your plate is good luck....Pork...kruat and Beans will build a perfect turd.....what a way o start the new year. Good Luck and a clean colin? Works for me! LOL.... Hey, I'm not realy that funny.

PhilFree:arrow:

[KcMizzou]

It's a Family Tradition! A dime under your plate is good luck....Pork...kruat and Beans will build a perfect turd.....what a way o start the new year. Good Luck and a clean colin? Works for me! LOL.... Hey, I'm not realy that funny.

PhilFree:arrow:Cool. The dime under the plate is interesting, though. Sounds like an old superstition I've never heard of...

[philfree]

Cool. The dime under the plate is interesting, though. Sounds like an old superstition I've never heard of...



I'm not sure it's superstition but it is a family tradition...If you're good you'll have freashly mented dimes..for good luck...My mom..god rest her sweet soul..always had new dimes for us five kids.......Golleee....I think i have to go cry now....My mom! ........oh.....


I'm to old for this shit!

PhilFree:arrow:

[KcMizzou]

I'm not sure it's superstition but it is a family tradition...If you're good you'll have freashly mented dimes..for good luck...My mom..god rest her sweet soul..always had new dimes for us five kids.......Golleee....I think i have to go cry now....My mom! ........oh.....


I'm to old for this shit!

PhilFree:arrow:Hmmm... well, either way, I like it. Might have to put a dime under my plate... (just in case)

[philfree]

Hmmm... well, either way, I like it. Might have to put a dime under my plate... (just in case)

Bless you...please put a dime under your plate....It's good luck man! And to top that off i'm going Marley...i' gonna burn one down for you.

PhilFree:arrow:
~free to love...free to hate.....Oh shit man..free to love......

PhilFree:arrow:
~Violently Crazy~

[Manila-Chief]

I like blackeye peas, but will not eat them on Jan. 1. I choose Matthew 6:33 instead of trying to create luck!!!

Luck? Superstition?

For those who are Christian, ask yourself whom do you trust ... our God or the "gods" (evil spirits) of luck/superstition? If you participate in these rituals your actions speak louder than words.

Just saying....

[KcMizzou]

I like blackeye peas, but will not eat them on Jan. 1. I choose Matthew 6:33 instead of trying to create luck!!!

Luck? Superstition?

For those who are Christian, ask yourself whom do you trust ... our God or the "gods" (evil spirits) of luck/superstition? If you participate in these rituals your actions speak louder than words.

Just saying....Oh Lord... :rolleyes:

[dred]

I GOT THAT BOOM BOOM POW..THESE CHICKAS JOCKIN MY STYLE..THEY TRY AN COPY MY SWAGGER...I'M ON THAT NEXT SHIT NOW

I'M SO 3008...YOU'RE SO 2000 AND LATE
http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2009/04/black-eyed-peas-boom-boom-pow-music-video.jpg

yeah. I would do her black eyed pea thing.

:evil:

[stanleychief]

I like blackeye peas, but will not eat them on Jan. 1. I choose Matthew 6:33 instead of trying to create luck!!!

Luck? Superstition?

For those who are Christian, ask yourself whom do you trust ... our God or the "gods" (evil spirits) of luck/superstition? If you participate in these rituals your actions speak louder than words.

Just saying....

Technically I think you can still eat blackeye peas on New Years Day as long as you walk under a ladder while breaking a mirror and swinging a black cat around by its tail. Either that or play some Black Sabbath backwards.. I forget which.

[Icon]

I had never heard of eating black-eyed peas for good luck on New Years Day until I met my wife. She's from Louisianna so I always thought it was a southern tradition. Having read this thread it is confirmed. Always learn something new on CP.

[Demonpenz]

I love new years, best day of the year, new beginnings, you get vacation day.

[Manila-Chief]

Technically I think you can still eat blackeye peas on New Years Day as long as you walk under a ladder while breaking a mirror and swinging a black cat around by its tail. Either that or play some Black Sabbath backwards.. I forget which.

ROFL

[Otter]

My friend whose house I've been at for the last 3 New Years has ham and black eyed peas in a crock pot every morning on New Years Eve. I never thought too much about until he brought it up and explained the tradition to me. But yeah, apparently it's supposed to bring good luck.

I said "if it brings good luck why the fuck don't you eat it at least once a week" which there was no logical answer.

The older I get the more this seasonal shit confounds me. Why the fuck can't I sit home on New Years and Christmas when every other swinging dick is at the beer store, mall and everywhere else running around like an idiot and we'll all get together in say May when the weather is nicer and we're not competing with the rest of the fucking country for a parking spot.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

I used to, but ever since she married that douche from Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, she won't let me.

[MOhillbilly]

my woman makes BEP for new years and i love her for it.

[Earthling]

We always do it. A fun tradition with us.

[vailpass]

F or many, January 1 offers an opportunity to forget the past and make a clean start. But instead of leaving everything up to fate, why not enjoy a meal to increase your good fortune? There are a variety of foods that are believed to be lucky and to improve the odds that next year will be a great one. Traditions vary from culture to culture, but there are striking similarities in what's consumed in different pockets of the world: The six major categories of auspicious foods are grapes, greens, fish, pork, legumes, and cakes. Whether you want to create a full menu of lucky foods or just supplement your meal, we have an assortment of recipes, guaranteed to make for a happy new year, or at the very least a happy belly.


Foods that Bring Good FortuneSweet-and-Sour Sauerkraut
Collards
Sausages and Green Lentils with Tomato Salsa
Hoppin' John
Cuban-Style Roast Suckling Pig
Beer-Braised Sausages and Sauerkraut
Scandinavian Seafood Salad
New Year's Orange and Brandy Cake
Black Bun

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Grapes
New Year's revelers in Spain consume twelve grapes at midnight—one grape for each stroke of the clock. This dates back to 1909, when grape growers in the Alicante region of Spain initiated the practice to take care of a grape surplus. The idea stuck, spreading to Portugal as well as former Spanish and Portuguese colonies such as Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru. Each grape represents a different month, so if for instance the third grape is a bit sour, March might be a rocky month. For most, the goal is to swallow all the grapes before the last stroke of midnight, but Peruvians insist on taking in a 13th grape for good measure.


Cooked Greens
Cooked greens, including cabbage, collards, kale, and chard, are consumed at New Year's in different countries for a simple reason — their green leaves look like folded money, and are thus symbolic of economic fortune. The Danish eat stewed kale sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, the Germans consume sauerkraut (cabbage) while in the southern United States, collards are the green of choice. It's widely believed that the more greens one eats the larger one's fortune next year.


Legumes
Legumes including beans, peas, and lentils are also symbolic of money. Their small, seedlike appearance resembles coins that swell when cooked so they are consumed with financial rewards in mind. In Italy, it's customary to eat cotechino con lenticchie or sausages and green lentils, just after midnight—a particularly propitious meal because pork has it's own lucky associations. Germans also partner legumes and pork, usually lentil or split pea soup with sausage. In Brazil, the first meal of the New Year is usually lentil soup or lentils and rice, and in Japan, the osechi-ryori, a group of symbolic dishes eaten during the first three days of the new year, includes sweet black beans called kuro-mame.



In the Southern United States, it's traditional to eat black-eyed peas or cowpeas in a dish called hoppin' john. There are even those who believe in eating one pea for every day in the new year. This all traces back to the legend that during the Civil War, the town of Vicksburg, Virginia, ran out of food while under attack. The residents fortunately discovered black-eyed peas and the legume was thereafter considered lucky.


Pork
The custom of eating pork on New Year's is based on the idea that pigs symbolize progress. The animal pushes forward, rooting itself in the ground before moving. Roast suckling pig is served for New Year's in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Austria—Austrians are also known to decorate the table with miniature pigs made of marzipan. Different pork dishes such as pig's feet are enjoyed in Sweden while Germans feast on roast pork and sausages. Pork is also consumed in Italy and the United States, where thanks to its rich fat content, it signifies wealth and prosperity.


Fish
Fish is a very logical choice for the New Year's table. According to Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, cod has been a popular feast food since the Middle Ages. He compares it to turkey on Thanksgiving. The reason? Long before refrigeration and modern transportation, cod could be preserved and transported allowing it to reach the Mediterranean and even as far as North Africa and the Caribbean. Kurlansky also believes the Catholic Church's policy against red meat consumption on religious holidays helped make cod, as well as other fish, commonplace at feasts. The Danish eat boiled cod, while in Italy, baccalà, or dried salt cod, is enjoyed from Christmas through New Year's. Herring, another frequently preserved fish, is consumed at midnight in Poland and Germany—Germans also enjoy carp and have been known to place a few fish scales in their wallets for good luck. The Swedish New Year feast is usually a smorgasbord with a variety of fish dishes such as seafood salad. In Japan, herring roe is consumed for fertility, shrimp for long life, and dried sardines for a good harvest (sardines were once used to fertilize rice fields).


Cakes, Etc.
Cakes and other baked goods are commonly served from Christmas to New Year's around the world, with a special emphasis placed on round or ring-shaped items. Italy has chiacchiere, which are honey-drenched balls of pasta dough fried and dusted with powdered sugar. Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlands also eat donuts, and Holland has ollie bollen, puffy, donut-like pastries filled with apples, raisins, and currants.

In certain cultures, it's customary to hide a special trinket or coin inside the cake—the recipient will be lucky in the new year. Mexico's rosca de reyes is a ring-shaped cake decorated with candied fruit and baked with one or more surprises inside. In Greece, a special round cake called vasilopita is baked with a coin hidden inside. At midnight or after the New Year's Day meal, the cake is cut, with the first piece going to St. Basil and the rest being distributed to guests in order of age. Sweden and Norway have similar rituals in which they hide a whole almond in rice pudding—whoever gets the nut is guaranteed great fortune in the new year.

Cakes aren't always round. In Scotland, where New Year's is called Hogmanay, there is a tradition called "first footing," in which the first person to enter a home after the new year determines what kind of year the residents will have. The "first footer" often brings symbolic gifts like coal to keep the house warm or baked goods such as shortbread, oat cakes, and a fruit caked called black bun, to make sure the household always has food.


What Not to Eat
In addition to the aforementioned lucky foods, there are also a few to avoid. Lobster, for instance, is a bad idea because they move backwards and could therefore lead to setbacks. Chicken is also discouraged because the bird scratches backwards, which could cause regret or dwelling on the past. Another theory warns against eating any winged fowl because good luck could fly away.

Now that you know what to eat, there's one more superstition—that is, guideline—to keep in mind. In Germany, it's customary to leave a little bit of each food on your plate past midnight to guarantee a stocked pantry in the New Year. Likewise in the Philippines, it's important to have food on the table at midnight. The conclusion? Eat as much lucky food as you can, just don't get too greedy—or the first place you'll be going in the new year is the gym.

http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/newyearsday/luckyfoods

[LaChapelle]

Hold on a minute
is that dime heads up or tails
the fates can't be ****ed with

[jidar]

Tradition is one thing, but superstition is for the ignorant.
Strive to be informed and enlightened.

[vailpass]

Tradition is one thing, but superstition is for the ignorant.
Strive to be informed and enlightened.

Thanks Zohan.

[Baby Lee]

Ill be grilling steaks and making baked potatoes

I think you mean 'baking potatoes,' unless you have some kind of root vegetable generation machine. And if so, Rainman would like a word with you at your earliest convenience. ;)

[Donger]

That depends: will she swallow?

[Monty]

I've never really followed this tradition at all, but I'm smoking a brisket today, so thought I'd try to smoke the black eyed peas in the same manner that I smoke my beans. The beans are quite tasty, so I thought I'd try the good luck version instead. :-) Has anyone ever smoked black eyed peas? Am I just wasting my time? I thought it would be interesting to experiment a little since I'm already working on the brisket. :)

[MahiMike]

I thought you were talking about the concert last night.

[bevischief]

I've never really followed this tradition at all, but I'm smoking a brisket today, so thought I'd try to smoke the black eyed peas in the same manner that I smoke my beans. The beans are quite tasty, so I thought I'd try the good luck version instead. :-) Has anyone ever smoked black eyed peas? Am I just wasting my time? I thought it would be interesting to experiment a little since I'm already working on the brisket. :)

Let us knows how those come turn out.

[bevischief]

Hold on a minute
is that dime heads up or tails
the fates can't be ****ed with

this

[philfree]

The Menu is:

Roast Pork
Blackeyd Peas
Sour Kraut
Fried Potatos
Apple Sauce

A dime under the plate.

Jan. 2nd I'll wake up and take a big dump and be ready to tackle anohter year.


PhilFree:arrow:

[Extra Point]

Soaked the northerns last nite. A few minutes ago, put them on simmer, diced some onion, carrots, green pepper, threw in a bay leaf, and threw in the thawed bones and meat scraps from a ham I smoked on Thanksgiving.

Happy New Year!

[Monty]

Let us knows how those come turn out.

Will do. I just put them on. I'm adding some BBQ sauce just to experiment.....

[BigOlChiefsfan]

Blackeyed peas for luck, turnip greens for money. They were good, too.

[bevischief]

All ready cooked and have corn bread to cook in the AM.

[Donger]

I wouldn't do BEP on a bet.

[J Diddy]

I wouldn't do BEP on a bet.


This bright me a jolly chuckle.

[LaChapelle]

warm black eyed peas in a tube sock

[Gracie Dean]

wow, a blast from the past. We are actually bucking tradition this year...can't hurt last year wasn't that great.


Not doing the BEP stuff this time around.

[philfree]

I eat Black Eyed Peas all through the year. Trapeys w/Jalpenos!

Sour Kruat too!

It's like 'Soul Food'....

PhilFree:arrow:

[bevischief]

I eat Black Eyed Peas all through the year. w/Jalpenos!

Sour Kruat too!

It's like 'Soul Food'....

PhilFree:arrow:

Trapeys is the sh#%, 4 bean soup this year, black eye peas is one of the beans, all beans from Trapeys.

[bevischief]

wow, a blast from the past. We are actually bucking tradition this year...can't hurt last year wasn't that great.


Not doing the BEP stuff this time around.

Same here but I started on news years eve and hoping for better...

[Smed1065]

yo girl, hey umm, try a lil' ham base and vidalia's in your peas, also, drizzle each serving lightly w/ olive-oil, that ham base is available in a jar by the boullioun ((sp))

Damn, thought I was sad.........