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Around here, it is a tradition that on New Year's Day you eat certain foods in hopes of bringing certain things for the coming year. The traditional meal I have done in years past consisted of:
Cornbread -- that we might have "our daily bread"
Greens (spinach, cabbage, etc) -- to bring prosperity (as in green money, I guess)
Black-eyed peas -- to bring luck (why black-eyed peas are lucky, I have no idea ::G::)
Ham / "fatback" -- so that we might "eat high on the hog"
This year, we added a few new things.
Champagne -- that the year might be "Bubbly". Actually, we had Mimosas (champagne and orange juice). I suppose the OJ could be considered as "for good health"?
Chocolate -- that the year might be sweet.
Regardless of what you ate or drank today, may your new year and ours contain an abundance of all of these things.
Cornbread -- that we might have "our daily bread"
Greens (spinach, cabbage, etc) -- to bring prosperity (as in green money, I guess)
Black-eyed peas -- to bring luck (why black-eyed peas are lucky, I have no idea ::G::)
Ham / "fatback" -- so that we might "eat high on the hog"
This year, we added a few new things.
Champagne -- that the year might be "Bubbly". Actually, we had Mimosas (champagne and orange juice). I suppose the OJ could be considered as "for good health"?
Chocolate -- that the year might be sweet.
Regardless of what you ate or drank today, may your new year and ours contain an abundance of all of these things.
