Don’t forget the cornbread, greens and hog jowls to go with those peas. You eat this to on New Year’s to get good luck for the year.
Each leaf of greens (turnip, mustard, collards or cabbage) you eat will grant you a green dollar each according to folk lore.
Yep...We also do the greens and cornbread, but we do ham instead of hog jowls...
“Don’t forget the cornbread, greens and hog jowls to go with those peas.”
That’s what we are having. Cheating a little on the greens and having brussels sprouts, but close enough to cabbage, I think.
My mother always said that tradition started in the South because if you were poor in the South and got up on New Years Day about all you would find to eat would be some dried black eyed peas, a chunk of salt pork, some cornmeal and some kind of leftover greens in the garden.