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Cooking & Baking

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11. My ancestry is from Ohio and we always ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day. I remember my

Sun Dec 31, 2023, 07:31 PM

Dec 2023

grandma cooking them and then, my mother. We did have a Southern branch of the family, which split from us right after the Civil War.

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what is this tradition of black eye peas on new years. enquiring minds want to know [View all] AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 OP

It represents good fortune (the round beans represent coinage)... hlthe2b Dec 2023 #1

thanks. AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 #2

Grits are actually pretty nice Warpy Jan 2024 #12

I like your start. LoisB Jan 2024 #13

My Southern friends make it every New Years Day CanonRay Dec 2023 #3

I've never done it Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 #4

I'm from the south, and we always ate black eyed peas and greens brer cat Dec 2023 #5

My mom always made us eat a bite or two for luck. I did not like them either yellowdogintexas Jan 2024 #15

Don't forget the greens for good luck 😁 Lochloosa Dec 2023 #9

update ,sometimes norma would also make biscuts and gravey also. mmmmm. AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 #10

Black eyed peas were considered "low class food", fit only for the pigs yellowdogintexas Jan 2024 #16