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New Years Traditions?

DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 2003 in General Discussion
Every New Years Day my family would eat Oyster Stew. I guess that is has always been our tradition. My x-wife always cooked Sauerkraut and Pork, That is what her family ate on New Years. I was wondering if other families ate different things on New Years Day???

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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    My grandmother always claimed that it was good luck to eat Black eyed peas on New Years Day. I still eat them every New Years Day. I don't know if they bring good luck or not, but I'm afraid to see how bad it could have been without eating them!

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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    At 11:59 PM I will pack the 15 mm cannon with 300 grains of FFG. At 12:00 AM I will touch her off and proceed to scare the beejeezus out of all the libby's in my sub-division. At 12:02 I will take said cannon back into the house and rehearse my " I don't know what your referring to deputy " spiel.[:D]


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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Corned beef & cabbage and black eyed peas.

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seems like we weren't yet finished with Christmas leftovers.
    Aaah- good 'ol turkey sammiches and fruitcake! No more, though. Now we hand out care packages to all the departing guests Christmas evening & go out for seafood dinner on new years.
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  • robjacksrobjacks Member Posts: 749 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My ex used to have oysrer stew also,family tradition i guess,as for me and this atkins diet i guess it will be something with no carbs this year,maybe ill start a new tradition.
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Watching football games and cleaning guns from the morning shoot. Beach
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Anything we want for New Years but it is to "set the tone" for the rest of the year...
    For a good bountiful year, a person would have something that is not served very often and expensive...like lobster or prime rib, in hopes the person could have it all year long....Weird I know, but its done..

    One thing that just IS NOT done is going to someones house empty handed...For the first house you go to in the new year, take a small loaf of bread, a penny, and a small bottle of wine symbolizing lots of food, money and good health all year long....Its down to a bun, the airline size of wine or spirit and a penny but it means the same..
    you can do it for all the houses you visit in the first day/week/month but its supposed to be just the first house...



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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    Sauerkraut and Kielbasa, Rose Bowl Parade, and lots of good college football games!!!

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  • greeker375greeker375 Member Posts: 3,644
    edited November -1
    ...and don't forget to put Vinegar on the black eyed peas.

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wife fixes black eyed peas every new year. I think they taste like dirt, not that dirt isn't good. Why can't baby limas and a hambone give me good luck?[B)]

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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most likely won't be eating too much on New Years day, my wife has told me that since I have been a good boy and that I have put up with a lot of crap with my job(s) this past year that she will take me to see a local band called Scream that has been around for a very long time (all '80s rock and roll!) and I am free to get blitzed!!! First time in 4 years she has allowed me to touch booze so I am taking advantage of it! New Years day will probably consist of being sick all day and the smell of food is liable to make me barf my guts out. Ohh well, a few hours to just cut loose and forget about all the problems will be worth a day of misery[:D] I already got my first bar order rehersed[;)][}:)] Bring on the Coors Light and Yukon Jack!

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  • DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, It looks like I better eat something different for this year. Oyster-Stew did'nt bring me much luck last year[V]

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, down here it's black-eyed peas![:D]

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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Nothing to do with food but I always go outside at midnight and play Auld Lang Syne on my trumpet. I usually get a round of applause from the neighbors in the cul-de-sac who are out there lighting fireworks.

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