Black eyed peas in chicken stock with smoked hog shank, onion, garlic and chiles, with a healthy side of corn bread, fried okra, and sweet potato pie.
Yum!
That's what we ALWAYS have on new years day.
Maybe the jowls were your problem :o)
Happy New Year to all y'all!!
btw, in my local grocery, near to where a lot of black folk reside they had "pork stomach" for sale today. I asked the cashier if she knew how people eat that. She had a different name for it; said she did something with chittlin's with it..all of which I forget.
That store also, sometimes has pig ears.