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#101327 - 01/02/07 12:02 AM New Year good luck food
Saundra Offline
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Registered: 11/18/05
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Loc: Daytona Beach, Florida
Since moving to the South, I learned that we're supposed to eat greens and black-eyed peas on New Year's day for good luck. I never heard about this in Canada or California. Will all you Southerners please enlighten me.
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#101328 - 01/02/07 02:41 AM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: Saundra]
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Registered: 07/02/03
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Loc: Alabama
You can have my share of "greens!" Ewwwww. Nasty stuff and it rates right up there with hominy to me. Yuck!

There should be hotlines for that kind of foods so people could call and get help before they ate that stuff. Ewwww.

I love black-eyed peas though and could eat my weight in them. (I heard that! Take it back!)

Why not just eat Oreos....life is simple. Or should be ... Yes?

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#101329 - 01/02/07 03:39 AM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: jawjaw]
Jane_Carroll Offline
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Registered: 07/06/06
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Loc: Alabama
Saundra,

I went to my mother's today for collards (took the tiniest bite possible) hog jowl (even tinier bite) peas (ate lots...but not JJ's weight...don't hit me!) corn (yum-o) and of course corn bread!

The greens are for money and I'm not sure exactly what the rest are specifically for...good health...prosperity...I think the gist of the practice is to eat humbly in the beginning of the year to allow prosperity to come to you...

Hey it could work...so eat some collards and buy a lottery ticket...see what happens!
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#101330 - 01/02/07 03:57 AM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: Jane_Carroll]
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Registered: 07/02/03
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Loc: Alabama
and sit close to a toliet....Jane forgot to mention about the "cleansing" effect that "greens" have on people. Another Ewwwww!

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#101331 - 01/04/07 12:42 AM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: jawjaw]
Saundra Offline
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JJ, I love greens. I just can't cook 'em right so I got a can (Glory brand - tasted just like in the restaurants but cheaper). Still have some left over. Can't remember eating special food anywhere else in the country for good luck. Hope it works, Jane.
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#101332 - 01/04/07 01:12 PM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: Saundra]
Dotsie Offline
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I think my mom's family (Irish) ate pickled herring on New Year's Eve now that you mention special foods.

We don't do greens and peas. No way!
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#101333 - 01/04/07 10:47 PM Re: New Year good luck food
Jane_Carroll Offline
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Registered: 07/06/06
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JJ, that one half of a bite I ate didn't have those results! You go Saundra...you'll have money and greens running out your ears!
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#101334 - 01/04/07 10:49 PM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: Jane_Carroll]
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Registered: 07/02/03
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Loc: Alabama
That ain't even close, Saundra....

Dots, what's pickled herring...is that fish? Pickled fish? Does it produce the same effects as pickled eggs? If so, I bet they didn't need any fireworks.....what?

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#101335 - 01/05/07 05:54 AM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 07/07/03
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Loc: Orange County, California
pickled herring is thick slices of herring in a pickle brine, maybe with a few onions or garlic pieces. It comes in a little glass jar. Herring is sorta like mackeral.

Dotsie, I had no idea that Irish folks ate that. I thought it was more German/Scandinavian. There's a herring brand called Lassco -- not quite my name, but pretty close.
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#101336 - 01/05/07 07:45 AM Re: New Year good luck food [Re: meredithbead]
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Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: London UK
They have pickled herring in London as well. It's called "rolled mop" here. Have not had it though. I was told, rolled mop, jellied eel, pickled onions, pickled eggs, alongside pie & mash and fish & chips used to be traditional fares in London.

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