What’s the correlation between beans and good luck? I don’t mind eating them because I love lentils, but really don’t understand what one thing has to do with another.

You don’t get no luck less you eat some fat with your peas. Eating greens, usually turnip, brings money. The ham means you won’t go hungry. The hot sauce is similar to an Eastern Carolina Bug Juice used on bar-b-q along with a vinegar based slaw.

You haven’t had cornbread until you’ve had my wife’s and remember white vinegar is only good for cleaning the kitchen.

I do wish everyone has a happy, healthy New Year! I hope to be less judgmental myself this year, though looking at this post, I guess I’m not off to a great start.

I’ve never been big on celebrating New Year’s, but once again I found myself downing copious amounts of champagne, and making a resolution to never do that again.

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I don’t know if it brings me any luck, and I still haven’t learned to enjoy the taste of sauerkraut, but I enjoy having a tradition and a meal with the extended family on New Year’s Day.

Also, red underwear is very important. Between Christmas and New Years, all the outdoor stalls sell loads of red underwear.

I grew up in Mercersburg which is very close the Mason Dixon line. Pork and kraut is very popular in the area, even used for fundraisers.

No cjamesatl, we didn’t use hotdogs! It’s farming country honey, we used real hog!

The best way to cook kraut is to add an apple and a few caraway seeds. Promise you’ll like it!

A fond memory of my youth is when it was raining the neighbor gal and I were allowed to play in the basement. Her Mother made her own kraut and kept it down there in huge crocks with plates weighted with rocks to submerge the cabbage. I was always fascinated at how bad it smelled, how wildly it bubbled as it fermented AND that people actually ate the stuff!

-Justin

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On the Jewish New Year (which falls in Sept/Tishrei) Jews eat slices of apple dipped in honey. This is to insure a sweet new year. Also…they do not eat nuts as the numerical value of the Hebrew word for “nut” is equivalent to the numerical value of the Hebrew word for “sin”

On the Jewish New Year (which falls in Sept/Tishrei) Jews eat slices of apple dipped in honey. This is to insure a sweet new year. Also…they do not eat nuts as the numerical value of the Hebrew word for “nut” is equivalent to the numerical value of the Hebrew word for “sin”

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It is a bit more work than the recipe mentioned in the article, but it is really, really good (if I do say so myself :-)

For Beans and lentils, he believed it had something to do with the old saying “Eat poor on New Year’s and eat fat the rest of the year.”

He said he’d heard the reason Pork is considered good luck on New Years is because when pigs forage for food, they always walk forward. So by eating pork, your looking forward to the new year, which is good luck. Or something like that.

He had a similar one for Lobster. Many consider Lobster a bad luck food on New Years, and this guy said he’d heard it was because Lobsters walk backwards, which is related to it being bad luck to lament about the past year.

After 2000 years of exile blah blah blah, we wish ourself “to have as many rights as the pomegranate seeds”. That’s for Jewish that came from Europe (Ashkenazim). Coming from a family that its origins are from Syria and from Jerusalem (at least for the last 9 or 10 generations), we bless “to have as many rights as the black eyed peas” and instead of eating pomegranate, we eat black eyed peas, that we call “Lubya”. Although it is possible to buy black eye peas all around the year, we only eat it twice a year – in New Year and in Passover. In between, we just drool and wait.

Or perhaps my origin is not from Syria but from Mexico?