Eat 12 black-eyed peas on New Years Day for good luck for the year! Heard this is from the Ozarks

[bobbieinok]

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Same tradition in Georgia

[quickesst]

2. I don't know where the number 12 came from....

...... but it's always been just have some Black Eyed Peas on New Year's Day for good luck. As a born-and-bred arkie, whenever Black Eyed Peas are served, I ain't stopping at 12. I don't care what day it is.

[WhiteTara]

3. Yeah! Who eats just 12 blackeyed peas?

I thought it was blackeyed peas, cornbread for gold and some greens (I can't remember which) for green money.

[quickesst]

6. Our normal New Year's dinner...

.... usually consists of Black Eyed Peas, fried taters, cornbread sliced tomatoes, and what we call Poke Salad. A fried mixture of spinach and scrambled eggs. We have this kind of dinner quite a bit, but we alternate between black eyed peas, and pinto beans. Good stuff.

[hlthe2b]

13. One for each month, but in the South quantity isn't usually specified. Worldwide, 12 grapes and

other small round fruits (to symbolize coins) are eaten (one for each month of the new year). It think grapes are attributed to Mexico and Spain.

[quickesst]

15. Yeah, one for each month...

I get that, but I'll bet a dollar to a dime that the majority of those traditional people don't stop at 12. Grapes Maybe, black eyed peas? Not a chance. Either way, whether it's 12, or a whole bowl, you've got it covered.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. In the low country of South Carolina

They eat something on New Year's day called "Hoppin' Johns." Ham, black eyed-peas and greens.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Oh, and cornbread, too.

[LenaBaby61]

7. Don't forget to eat this for MONEY on New Years Day.

I love cabbage

[secondwind]

8. Friends from TX did this also.

[LeftInTX]

9. Sure beats menudo

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Never heard "12"

I eat all the BEP I can choke down on New Years Day.

[brush]

11. We African-Americans do this also, but not just twelve.

[KT2000]

12. A bowl of black-eye peas

never heard of the 12 though. It's a big deal at my house and I'm always recruiting new black-eye pea eaters for New Years. My brother even gives a can as gifts to each of his step-kids for Christmas. By this time, I'm scared to miss it.

[Callalily]

14. I always make some type of "good luck" food on New Year's Day.

I haven't heard the one about the 12 black eyed peas, but I something similar with grapes.

Eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year's Eve is both a tradition and a superstition in Spain. Rare is the Spaniard who will risk poisoning their fate for the coming year by skipping the grapes, one for each stroke of midnight.

[SKKY]

16. I lived in Spain for several years...

...and they do grapes. Still waiting for my good luck to happen.

[whistler162]

17. Sorry not a cannibal

[jpak]

18. Hoppin' John, collards and corn bread

I could eat it for 12 days in every month of the year.

What else would you really need?

[Codeine]

19. Eewwww.

Can’t stand the things. Weird texture.