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Cooking & Baking

littlewolf

(3,813 posts) Fri Dec 23, 2022, 01:07 PM Dec 2022

interesting new year traditions in food [View all]

here in North Carolina the New Years meal
has black eyed peas and collards or cabbage
the story goes you will make a dollar for every black-eyed pea
you eat

back home in MI my mom would have
either sour kraut or Cole slaw and herring
(she was of Norwegian decent.) my Dad was
German so he was good with that ...

how about you guys ...

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interesting new year traditions in food [View all] littlewolf Dec 2022 OP

Here it is Dave in VA Dec 2022 #1

Spicy black eyed peas with tomatoes and green chilies Silver Gaia Dec 2022 #2

Pennsylvania Dutch Freddie Dec 2022 #3

In Wisconsin it was MOMFUDSKI Dec 2022 #4

You mean you actually have to EAT it?!! 2naSalit Dec 2022 #6

One of my earliest memories was eating peacefreak2.0 Dec 2022 #12

My Polish grandmother did the same in New York Retrograde Dec 2022 #13

Pickled herring trof Dec 2022 #15

Hoppin' John is the one New Years' dish I have heard the most about ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2022 #5

I have made Hoppin' John from time to time instead of the pot of peas yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #9

Here in NM, it's tamales Warpy Dec 2022 #7

we live near one of the large Mexican areas in FW yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #10

There was a lady who sold them door to door in my neighborhood Warpy Dec 2022 #11

I have made Tamales and Hoppin' John dem in texas Jan 2023 #17

I from KY and live in Texas so of course it is black eyed peas yellowdogintexas Dec 2022 #8

We didn't have any new year food traditions when I was growing up. hippywife Dec 2022 #14

In coastal Alabama: trof Dec 2022 #16

Because I did not grow up with any New Year food traditions, PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2023 #18