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New Year's Traditions/ Superstitions
Do you have any traditions to help you ring in the new year or are you superstitious about the holiday?
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12-31-2004, 04:42 PM
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We always have Ham and beans with cornbread on New Years Day.
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12-31-2004, 05:02 PM
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we do the same except it's black eyed peas with kraut or chow-chow (not the dog, it's a southern relish)
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12-31-2004, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by texascubfan
we do the same except it's black eyed peas with kraut or chow-chow (not the dog, it's a southern relish)
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12-31-2004, 05:09 PM
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Not superstitious nor have any traditions for to bring in the New Year.....just another day
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12-31-2004, 05:16 PM
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Not superstitious and I don't do anything special, but my mom always used to eat black eyed peas and hog jowls....bleh!
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12-31-2004, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by cherrypie7788
Not superstitious and I don't do anything special, but my mom always used to eat black eyed peas and hog jowls....bleh!
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01-01-2005, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by texascubfan
(not the dog, it's a southern relish)
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01-01-2005, 10:23 AM
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Besides having sex we don't do anything special. I think my family would kill me if I tried to make them eat black eyed peas and hog jowls.  |
01-01-2005, 11:29 AM
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My grandparents were into eating sausage and sauerkraut.
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01-01-2005, 03:21 PM
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The only News Years tradition at my place is that my Dad cooks a Prime Rib.. this year it cost me $97.00... but it lasts us for days... My parents had the philosophy that no matter what the coming year brought... no matter the financial difficulties and the strife.. we would start the year off with the best meal.. Prime Rib... Yorkshire Pudding.... Potatos.. Yum...
It is in the oven cooking as I type this... it smells wonderfully...
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01-01-2005, 08:41 PM
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The New Years pork and kraut tradition is slowly fading here. We have some kind of pork dinner and the sauerkraut is almost a side dish now. 
As the eldest of seven kids, I grew up with both the tradition AND the superstitions that my German grandmother had. One of my deepest etched New Years memories is of the year we had a HEAVY snow storm  and my grandmother couldn’t get anybody to walk around the house with the dinner to ensure enough to eat the coming year. 
After looking for her in the house full of company and kids,  my dad had a hunch where she was.  She had slipped out the side, basement door in here house slippers and little back cloth coat, and the arthritic old lady was knee deep in snow, where the neighbors fence met the corner of the house, trying to figure a way over. He took HER pot (the BIG one that lived on the stove, with the wood handle on the strap that was burnt to a taper half way along one side) and finished the round so she would go back in. He hardly made a sound  as he jumped over the fence as she was wise enough to wrap the CAN of sauerkraut with a dish towel to keep it from klanking. :bang:
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01-01-2005, 08:54 PM
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Sweet story!
We sat down to black-eyed peas made with the left over Xmas ham bone, rice, cornbread and greens(albeit mine were in the form of spinach). As I was once again explaining to my kiddos what the significance was of each food, I realized that my little guy thought I had made it all up myself just to get him to eat it. I wonder now whose momma it was who did make it all up  |
01-02-2005, 01:01 AM
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Oh yeah, almost forgot...in our neck of the woods it's also part of the tradition to toss a clean silver dime in the blackeye peas, whoever finds it gets good luck for the year...
...yeh, I know, but I'm in no position to tempt fate anymore...
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01-02-2005, 09:46 AM
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We do the pork and kraut thing. I cook it all day in the crock pot. By the time it's time to eat...I'm not hungry (from smelling it all day).
A past tradition...and something I was VERY superstitious about...At 12:00:01 I would call my mother from wherever I happened to be at that particular time. Wherever I was I had to have a phone (back in the days before cell phones...*waits for the kids to stop gasping, "There were days when you didn't have a cell phone"?*) at the ready so that one second past midnight I could tell my mom I loved her and wish her a Happy New Year and ask her if everything was ok!
I miss those times and still think of her every year at the stroke of midnight. Well, actually I think of her more than just then...but you know what I mean...lol!
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