Why Do We Eat Pork and Sauerkraut on New Year’s Day

EatDelights ^ | Kimberley Baxter

[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

[Telepathic Intruder]

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

[noexcuses]

Black eyed peas!

[oldasrocks]

All we are having is Prime Rib and mashed taters.

[lilypad]

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!

[DallasBiff]

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

[murron]

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

[murron]

And cabbage.

[Hot Tabasco]

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.

[Allegra]

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.

[Fungi]

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....

[Telepathic Intruder]

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

[Larry Lucido]

Here you go. Looks like a pizza, but it's cake!

[NorthMountain]

Huh???

Roast Beef and blackeyed peas.

[the OlLine Rebel]

That’s incredible.

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

[Fiji Hill]

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

[yldstrk]

New one on me.

[the OlLine Rebel]

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.

[Macoozie]

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!

[blam]

"Black-eye peas with smoked ham hocks and corn bread. New Year’s Day tradition for me going on +75 years"

Ditto.

[metmom]

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.