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Why Do We Eat Pork and Sauerkraut on New Year’s Day
EatDelights ^ | Kimberley Baxter

Posted on 12/30/2022 3:19:18 PM PST by DallasBiff

It’s no coincidence that pork chops and sauerkraut are traditional holiday dishes, especially on New Year’s Day.

This meal symbolizes wealth and prosperity for the coming year in German-American culture

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: newyearsday; sauerkraut; tradition
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To: DallasBiff

Because they’re good? I’m sorry, I’m German so I don’t understand the reason why you would not like them.


41 posted on 12/30/2022 4:05:36 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: DallasBiff

Black eyed peas!


42 posted on 12/30/2022 4:07:11 PM PST by noexcuses
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To: Fungi

All we are having is Prime Rib and mashed taters.


43 posted on 12/30/2022 4:07:14 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: dforest

I’m making a pork, sauerkraut goulash with Spaetzles , it’s a Hungarian dish this New Year’s Day. Side of greens. Lentils on New Year’s Eve. Italian dish. Need all the good luck we can get!


44 posted on 12/30/2022 4:08:29 PM PST by lilypad
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To: Telepathic Intruder

When I was a kid, I hated sauerkraut, now I have to put it on a hot dog.


45 posted on 12/30/2022 4:09:36 PM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

In my neck if the woods it’s cabbage and black eyed peas.


46 posted on 12/30/2022 4:09:57 PM PST by murron
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To: JBW1949

And cabbage.


47 posted on 12/30/2022 4:10:35 PM PST by murron
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To: DallasBiff
pork chops and sauerkraut are traditional holiday dishes, especially on New Year’s Day.

Never in my family. It was always spam and baked beans for Christmas dinner and the same for each day thereafter until we ran out.

48 posted on 12/30/2022 4:12:01 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: DallasBiff
When I was a kid, I hated sauerkraut, now I have to put it on a hot dog.

That’s one of the very few ways I’ll eat cabbage.

49 posted on 12/30/2022 4:12:55 PM PST by Allegra
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To: oldasrocks
Vundabar! Don't forest a nice arugula or romaine salad with a few sliced tomatoes. Throw about ten cloves of garlic with those boiled potatoes for a wonderful flavor lift. Mash them all together. Happy new year....
50 posted on 12/30/2022 4:12:57 PM PST by Fungi
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To: DallasBiff

Very good. Excellent in fact. That’s the way God designed it to be.


51 posted on 12/30/2022 4:14:24 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Here you go. Looks like a pizza, but it's cake!


52 posted on 12/30/2022 4:15:02 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DallasBiff

Huh???

Roast Beef and blackeyed peas.


53 posted on 12/30/2022 4:16:20 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Larry Lucido

That’s incredible.

Could’ve been a cheesecake, the look of the “crust”.


54 posted on 12/30/2022 4:17:09 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: lilypad

I just finished a casserole of goulash with spaetzle. I made it with some paprika paste that I found at a local Romanian delicatessen.


55 posted on 12/30/2022 4:17:15 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DallasBiff

New one on me.


56 posted on 12/30/2022 4:18:20 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: DallasBiff

Notice all the replies denigrating this in various ways.

Meanwhile post about Italian and Cajun and Irish stuff, you’ll get nothing but praise and accolades and “respect” for the tradition.

We get no respect, including the fact Germans are still THE #1 non-English immigrant group in the US all time. No one knows that. I guess cuz Germans don’t too their own horns.


57 posted on 12/30/2022 4:20:23 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Making Olliebollen as we speak

I’m partial to spicy mustard with my kraut.
Must be that southern/Bavarian thread in my bloodline.

Hallo, Servus!


58 posted on 12/30/2022 4:21:14 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: steveo
"Black-eye peas with smoked ham hocks and corn bread. New Year’s Day tradition for me going on +75 years"

Ditto.

59 posted on 12/30/2022 4:25:05 PM PST by blam
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To: DallasBiff

My mom said that their tradition (Polish) was that whatever you ate on New Year’s Day was how you were going to live the rest of the year.

If you ate chicken or turkey, you’d have to scratch for a living.

But people feed pigs, so if you ate pork, you would be provided with what you need.


60 posted on 12/30/2022 4:28:52 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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