NEW YEAR TRADITIONS? - Page 2

Blk&GoldFan · ‎11-08-2011

Never heard of eating the grapes. Interesting and I learned something new. Anxious to see what others post about traditions.

Glitter51 · ‎08-23-2010

We have fried cabbage, black-eyed peas and pork. However, bc we don't like black- eyed peas, I don't fix them.

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

Daddy who was a very superstitious Irishman HAD to have pork and sauerkraut for New Years Day.

forrestwolf · ‎06-20-2010

Although Southern, I did not grow up with black eyed peas, hog jawl, or greens, but rather a fresh(also know as green) ham, served of Jewish Rye bread, with dill pickles and lettuce (not iceberg), red potato salad (before it went into the refrigerator), and homemade cheese straws.....Don't know the reason, or reasoning, if any......Oh, and homemade pimento cheese..

Oh...and Ruffles...plain...and olives.....

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.......

Tigriss · ‎03-12-2010

Wow Forrest, what a combo for a meal. I'm in south Georgia and we are doing a Low Country Boil tonight with blackeyed peas with ham hock and greens with cornbread. That too is a combo!

Honeybit · ‎07-17-2011

@forrestwolf wrote:
... but rather a fresh (also known as green) ham

@forrestwolf

forrestwolf, that's so interesting. "Ham" to us was always a "fresh pork ham" (the word PORK was always included in the phrase) but I never heard it called "green pork" or "green ham." I wonder where the term came from?

What most people think of as "ham" now is cured ham --but to us, growing up, the cured was "that pink stuff -- it might be MEAT, but it sure isn't HAM!"

O/T -- my dad was raised in Alabama, and he always said they never got to eat any of the good parts of the pig at hog killing time because those were always sold and the family only got the scraps. I still love Souse Meat (also known as Head Cheese) -- which is similar to Scrapple but not served battered and fried.