Pork and Cabbage

[Marseeya]

Have any of you ever heard that you have to eat pork and cabbage (or sauerkraut) on New Year's Day for good luck?

How many of you are having it today?

I have a pork roast in the slow cooker and I'll be cooking up some cabbage (for me and the kids) and sauerkraut (for DH).

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Yes - We did it every year. I got that from my Mom. Don't forget the Blackeyed peas.

 

[Marseeya]

What are the black-eyed peas for? We never did that.

 

[mickeyfan2]

It is a german custom.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

What are the black-eyed peas for? We never did that.

I honestly don't have a clue. My Mom just always made them as part of the lucky meal. And I just came home from the store and the Blackeyed peas were right there in the front of the store along with the sauerkraut.

 

[Antonia]

It may be a German custom, but I think it is also a traditional Southern custom to have greens and black-eye peas on New Years Day. If you eat this you should prosper in the new year! We're having it for supper tonight. Witha homemade banana pudding for dessert.

 

[clarabelle]

In the south it is greens (usually collard) for money -bills and blackeyed peas for coins.
If you eat them on new years day you will have lots of money.

 

[msdznyduck]

My mom and grandmother also did this for New Years every year, and usually I do also, but we are going out to dinner, and I don't think I will order this out.

THey also said, whatever you do, don't eat chicken on New Years, cause you will 'scratch all year'.........I think it has something to do with money, not bugs!!

 

[Southern4sure]

Don't forget to put a cleaned dime in your black eye peas.....

 

[Marseeya]

It may be a German custom, but I think it is also a traditional Southern custom to have greens and black-eye peas on New Years Day. If you eat this you should prosper in the new year! We're having it for supper tonight. Witha homemade banana pudding for dessert.

Banana pudding? Did you say banana pudding??? I'm coming over for dinner!



I loves me some banana pudding.

 

[Marseeya]

Don't forget to put a cleaned dime in your black eye peas.....

I wonder what would happen if you put a dirty dime in your black eye peas?

 

[HOGFAN]

cabbage = wealth

black eye peas= luck

 

[dbarker]

I think the black eyed peas is a Southern thing. DH's family never heard of it either. They are German heritage and from IL. They just do saurkraut. We do black eyed peas for luck and cabbage for wealth.

 

[Blondie]

Yep, my mom (and her mom before her) made pork, saurkraut, black eyed peas and collard greens every New Year's day for dinner. Cornbread too!

Wish I was close enough that I could stop in and have some with her right now!

She told me that the old legend has it is that the black eyed peas is for pennies for in pockets, the collards were for greens in your wallet.

(oh, and they're from Pennsylvania, not from the south!)

 

[Miller1412]

My Best Friend's mom always makes it New Year's Day. Before we had kids, we always spent NY with them and had it NYD. I didn't mind the pork...but the sauerkraut...

 

[Disney Ella]

Yuck, yuck, yuck! My mother made this every New Year and every year, I didn't eat it and everyone insisted I would have bad luck. It seems to me you could come up with tastier meal for good luck. I have decided that eating shrimp brings me good luck, not greasy pork and smelly sauerkraut!

 

[HOGFAN]

probably TMI,

I dont know if the peas and cabbage will bring anything good this year, but
I know they brought plenty of GAS last night. Kept me up all night.
BTW, a spoonful of peanut butter in anything gas-producing will take the gas out. DH was cooking this time but I couldnt sneak in that peanut butter. has to be added while cooking.

 

[PaulaSue]

Yuck, yuck, yuck! My mother made this every New Year and every year, I didn't eat it and everyone insisted I would have bad luck. It seems to me you could come up with tastier meal for good luck. I have decided that eating shrimp brings me good luck, not greasy pork and smelly sauerkraut!

I am PA Dutch but I hate dutch food but shoefly pie. Dh knows if he wants it he has to go home to his Mom's or my Mom's.

Dh and I do Shrimp too.

 

[WDWAurora]

We always do the black-eyed peas too. My grandmother's family always did cabbage (and she hates collards) so we had that. Corn bread and a small roast w/potatoes and carrots so DH wouldn't starve and banana pudding for dessert. YUM! Oh, and the pork we had was the Christmas hambone, cooked in the peas, then the meat is pulled off at the end.