Is this anyone else’s family tradition?

[Pseudonym]

On New Year’s my GrannyGrams always cooks:

Collard Greens & cabbage: for money
Black Eyed Peas : for luck/ prosperity
Cornbread : for a golden/prosperous year
Pork (if you eat it) :good luck (usually in the greens or cabbage)

I wanna keep the tradition going since I can’t visit her this year.

 

[Rhapture]

Pork: good luck

Ma you know the coli don't eat pork! They gonna get you just like they got me over them mashed potatoes

 

[Luke Cage]

black eyed peas is my favorite, but nobody else seems to like it anymore. we don't have any new years traditions though, except going downtown to see the ball drop, drinking champagne, and partying.

 

[Pseudonym]

Ma you know the coli don't eat pork! They gonna get you just like they got me over them mashed potatoes

What mashed potatoes?

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

My parents also make black eyed peas for good luck on me years days.

 

[Rhapture]

What mashed potatoes?

The Thanksgiving mashed potatoes that nobody eats

 

[mattw1313]

was on the phone with my moms the other day and she mentioned that my grandmother used to be big on having black eyes peas and some other things on new years

as much as we love my grandmother we just kinda dismissed it as superstitions of the older generation. so I guess you can't say that survived as a family tradition

 

[KingTut]

Yep, for as long as I can remember. Where are you and your family from? I always figured it was a southern superstition but now I'm curious

 

[Pseudonym]

Yep, for as long as I can remember. Where are you and your family from? I always figured it was a southern superstition but now I'm curious

Florida

mother has Ghana in her bloodline, dad has Nigeria

 

[RhodyRum]

Eat food because superstition and fairy tales tells you stuffing your face to gain the components to aid in cellular respiration will somehow someway alter your fate in life brehs

Eating certain foods on certain days because of cultural traditions is one thing, but eating certain foods because they grant you things by some unforseen magic is just another chapter in The Big Book of Stupid Human Tricks. How does an adult brain in this day & age still promote this type of garbage thinking?

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Eat food because superstition and fairy tales tells you stuffing your face to gain the components to aid in cellular respiration will somehow someway alter your fate in life brehs

Eating certain foods on certain days because of cultural traditions is one thing, but eating certain foods because they grant you things by some unforseen magic is just another chapter in The Big Book of Stupid Human Tricks. How does an adult brain in this day & age still promote this type of garbage thinking?

Welp- at least we know who the snarky unfunny dumbass cac is ^^^

 

[skylove4]

Yes and they refusing to have any dirty laundry in the house going into the new year. I love my people

 

[Pseudonym]

Yes and they refusing to have any dirty laundry going into the new year

We used to have to clean the WHOLE house before New Year’s

 

[RhodyRum]

Welp- at least we know who the snarky unfunny dumbass cac is ^^^

So you believe eating cabbage puts money in your dusty ass pockets?

That eating black eye peas will prevent you from being T-Boned at an intersection if you cross it when a drunk driver simultaneously runs a red light?

Damn right I'm snarky & look down at stupidity being promoted in our community. But then again I'm talking to someone who's made up a life for internet daps.

Grow up you retard.

 

[saturn7]

Same thing with my family. My maternal Grandma had a lot of New Year's traditions/superstitions she passed on to us.

Soul food on New Year's day.
A man needs to be the first person to enter your home on New Year's for good luck throughout the year.
Don't eat fowl on New Year's day or you'll be scratching yourself throughout the year.
Don't wash clothes on New Year's Day because you will wash someone out of the family.