What do you eat on New Year's Day??? Any traditions

[underpants]

'roundt heUHre we eat pork cabbage and black eyed peas. In combination with the activities of the night before it usually makes the third quarter of the Rose Bowl uh well interesting.....the house usually airs out in time for the fourth quarter.

I don't remember what the pork represents but the cabbage is considered god luck to have "folding money" in the coming year and the black eyed peas (yum) are considered good luck for coinage in your pocket.

So what do you eat on New Years Day?

[Bertha Venation]

1. No traditions.

Just nibbling all day.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Yes, due to long family tradition, the thing I eat on New Year's Day is...

...food.

[Maeve]

3. Leftovers....lots and lots of leftovers!

When I was a kid, we used to get together to watch the bowl games and I would look forward to GreatAunt Merle's cream horns, the only time she made them. The rest of the menu varied and we never had any other traditions for the day itself.

This year we're heading to the cinema for LOTR!

[demnan]

4. We used to have a hog's head, pig's feet and chit'lins

The tradition states that on Christmas you eat the roasted pig and by New Year's the only thing left is the head.

Now I just make pig's feet. The actual eating part is a pork shoulder blade roast, blackeyed peas and greens but I have to cook some weird part of the hog at New Year's or it just doesn't feel right.

[wysimdnwyg]

5. Alka Seltzer and Pepto

That's breakfast for me!

[ChemEng]

8. Plus a couple of ibuprofins just in case....(n/t)

[VelmaD]

6. Gotta have black-eyed peas

I'll put 'em in to soak tonight and then let them simmer all morning tomorrow. A little bacon, a little onion, lots of chili powder (I like my black-eyed peas HOT), some other secret hobo spices...yummy.

Always make a little cornbread to go along with the black-eyed peas. You just can't have one without the other. :-)

[jimbo fett]

7. Yep, black eyed peas. Is this a Southern tradition only?

[Whitacre D_WI]

9. The swine roots for food forward, the chicken scratches back.

That's why we eat pork instead of chicken on New Year's Day.


I am going to make a nice Alsatian choucroute.

[Racenut20]

10. pickled herring

[Butterflies]

11. Sauerkraut

I once heard that it was lucky to eat some on New Year's Day, so I try to remember to buy some to eat that day with hotdogs.

[Blue-Jay]

12. I find that a bloody mary for breakfast usually does the trick.

The spicier, the better. Aside from that, there's probably going to be some sort of pork product and sour kraut for dinner with the relatives.

[Droopy]

13. Sour kraut and pork

It's a tradition around here and it's supposed to bring you good luck in the new year.

[dry99]

14. On New Year's Day

It's always corned beef and cabbage. Don't know why but been doing it as long as I remember. Gotta cook a dime with it too, for luck!

[underpants]

15. Okay I've never heard of the dime thing

Very interesting and Welcome to DU :hi:

[cmf]

16. Ham, cabbage and black eyed peas

I don't really like any of those foods, so I usually just eat greasy fast food to combat the inevitable hangover I will have.

I heard that the reason you eat pork is that you are supposed to eat an animal that scratches forward (like a pig), rather than an animal that scratches backward (like a chicken) as a symbol of looking forward to the future.

[BuelahWitch]

17. Pork always meant " a prospeous New Year" at my house

If you ate chicken on New Years you'd be "scratchin' for money all year."