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Posted: 1/1/2006 8:42:33 AM EDT
I'll be having a huge bowl for good luck. Anyone else have other traditions for New Year's?
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Walmart didn't have any this morning. I'm going to Foodlion in a few minutes.
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It's something about the "evil vindictive yankees" after the War of Southern Rebellion burned all the crops, and the poor victims of the antebellum (sp) south were left with nothing to eat but black eyed peas. Probably just bullshit, like the war wasn't about slavery blah blah blah |
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From a Google search: "Black-eyed peas have been considered good luck in many cultures. They are traditionally eaten with ham as a meal. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity. Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency." |
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Looks good, Gloffie. |
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You know I have NEVER had black eyed peas in my life. Never had them on any new years day at all.
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One of my wife's friends goes to great pains to tell me this every New Years Day. She revels in the fact that she's somehow superior to me because I was born in the North, and always picks arguments about the civil war, and how evil and punitive the Yankees were afterwards. I don't know if it's even true, as the 20 years I've lived in Texas I've had so much civil war revisionist history shoved down my throat by "friends" that I don't know what's true and what's not. |
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With that being said, let's not shit in this thread? Thanks. |
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Besides the BEP's, we're also having a BIG pot of Collard Greens along with some cornbread.
Happy New Year. TS |
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I made a batch yesterday and had a bowl this morning.
Soak 1 cup of dry blacy-eyed peas in water. Chop 8-10 pieces of bacon fine and fry up crisp. Cut 1 medium onion, 2-3 pieces of garlic 2 celery stalks and a medium potato. Put black-eyed peas and the rest of the ingrediants on top of the bacon and grease and cook for 10-15 minutes on medium heat. Cover with 4 cups water and let simmer 30-45 minutes. Drizzle with honey, brown sugar, mollasses or something similar. (I used maple chips, maple syrup and honey) It is good! |
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The reason for black eyed peas and cornbread in the south is because most Union troops didn't recognize peas as a food crop for people. They were not eaten much up north at the time. They therefore didn't destroy pea crops, thinking that it was fodder for horses or cattle. (They would have already killed/looted all the animal stock and the fodder crops would be useful for them later.)
They also burned all the corn cribs but corn and corn meal does not burn well. Therefore, a lot of the corn would survive the fire. It was a very common tactic of the federal army to attempt to starve and leave homeless the women and children of areas that they occupied. It was a modified scorched earth strategy. My wife just got through making a black eyed pea dish called Poppin John. We are having it with Mexican cornbread. |
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That sounds great. I think I'll try them like that this year. Mmmmm.... |
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"It was a very common tactic of the federal army to attempt to starve and leave homeless the women and children of areas that they occupied....." Ah yes, the women and children angle.............I better stay out of this thread, lest I get accused again of "shitting" on it |
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Oh c'mon. They're just giving the history behind it, not turning it into a north vs south campaign. Settle down. |
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I'm having Bloody Marys at the San Diego Velodrome at noon, where a friend of mine will be riding a track bike 100 miles in commemoration of his 50th birthday. This afternoon it's ham and split pea soup.
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I would rather eat my own vomit...
Enjoy yours (peas) though and Happy New Year. |
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Here in NM we do Posole and beer as I listed in another thread. Great stuff.
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Dammit. Now I'm struggling to get that asinine song about humps outta my head. Leave it to LT! |
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Yes. |
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I have a pot that has been on for about an hour or so. I like to put about 2# of country ham, a little onioin and garlic in mine. Corn Bread, cabbage. gonna be a good dinner.
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....and if you're listening to the Black Eyed Peas while eating black eyed peas...is that double good luck? or does it cancel itself out? |
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All together now.....
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I've lived here my whole life and never heard of this "history," which I suspect is made up - not by the posters, but by somebody. Everybody from my corner of the world has always had BEPs, rice, and cornbread every New Year's day forever. It's mandatory. Of course, most of us eat beans & rice frequently anyway. Even babies get a grain of rice and a mashed pea and a few cornbread crumbs. It's always been spoken of (about 50/50) as either bringing good luck or warding off bad luck. My grandmother always put a silver dime in the pot of beans, the finder getting extra good luck.
Maple syrup? Molasses? Yuck! Butter on the cornbread, salt, pepper, & vinegar on the BEPs & rice. ETA: just had round one. It just gets better as it sits on the stove, so I go for multiple small hits instead of one big one. |
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Good dip for watching the football games:
2 can Trappey's jalapeno black eyed peas (or equivalent amount of homemade) large package cream cheese pace's picante jalapenos, to taste onion, chopped Cook peas with jalapenos and onion for 20 minutes. Put all ingredients in the food processor and blend until smooth. |
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Yeah. I will be telling my wife she is nuts if she thinks I am going to eat black-eyed peas. |
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My girlfriend ran up a pot of blackeyed peas last night, with a big chunk of some unidentifiable part of a pig in it.
Stunk so goddamn bad we were all pretty much sure either we did it wrong, or it's a recipe that just won't work north of the Macy-Dixie. She was told by a southern black coworker of hers that the pot had to cook through midnight. That said, everyone here last night had some for luck. Sake and 10 Cane rum will kill the taste of anything. |
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Yep, I'll be having a piece of the wife's ass......for good luck. |
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+1 BEPs for good luck, collards (or turnip greens in a pinch) for money. |
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My lunch:
Mexican cornbread Jalapeño/German sausage made by a real German cook. Poppin John (blackeyed peas/rice/pork) Homemade cheese cake http://www.eastex.net/jhendrix/lunch.jpg |
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Most black people - even Northerners and Westerners - have family roots in the South. Lots of what is thought of outside the South as traditional black culture is common to Southerners generally. For example, "Soul Food" is known down here as "food." |
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Hmmmmmmmm. BEPs, collard greens, and cornbread are not just for New Years. |
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WTF?
My new years tradition consist of trying not to get killed by the drunk drivers the night before, then trying to find something to watch on TV the day of. I was sucessfull on count one. But count two is a failure as it seems I currently have 215 channels of football, Sponge bob squarepants, and band of brothers reruns. |
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So true. Soul food is the bane of my existence. Nothin' beats it. |
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If you didn't ave your PICKLED HERRING today you will have bad luck all year.
Joe |
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Black eyed peas, fresh ham, hog jowls, greens, and cornbread every New Years Day!
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