New Year's Day Traditions

Gemme · 01-01-2020, 11:44 AM

Like Orema, I have to have the greens and black eyed peas but in the South we eat ham with it too. I was always told the greens represented dollars and the peas coins. If I had cornbread, that would represent gold, but it's hard to find good cornbread up here and I'm not really into making it so no gold for me this year. Not sure what the ham represents but it just goes so well with the others, it doesn't matter to me. All I know is that eating chicken or lobster on New Years Day is a no no. As an Italian, I also eat lentils. I had them all for brunch and it was delicious!

There's a superstition (more than a tradition) of not taking anything out of the house on New Years Day, including trash, but mine is looking pretty full.

*eyeballing the can*

01-01-2020, 11:44 AM	#31
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