[Fairview]

Somebody who specializes in doing research on Southern cuisine did a historical study on this a few years ago. The dish appears to have originated in South Carolina.

There are a thousand versions. Mine is onions, crumbled bacon, and garlic sauteed together in a bit of bacon grease, then steeped in rice with chicken broth; add the black-eyed peas and top with tomatoes. You have to add Tabasco, of course. Fried okra and corn bread are what God intended us to eat with Hoppin' John so I'm there with ya, Blam. I dunno about the milk, though.

But if you don't eat this on New Year's Day you'll have bad luck the rest of the year. I think that's the problem with a lot of people, they forget to eat Hoppin' John on New Years Day and then they're surprised their luck stinks.

[cloud8]

> There are a thousand versions. Mine is onions, crumbled bacon, and garlic sauteed together in a bit of bacon grease, then steeped in rice with chicken broth; add the black-eyed peas and top with tomatoes. You have to add Tabasco, of course. Fried okra and corn bread are what God intended us to eat with Hoppin' John...

That sounds delicious, but haven't you guys heard of salt pork?

[blam]

"But if you don't eat this on New Year's Day you'll have bad luck the rest of the year. I think that's the problem with a lot of people, they forget to eat Hoppin' John on New Years Day and then they're surprised their luck stinks."

Don't tell the Democrats.

[Old Professer]

This is how all superstitions spread and become legends; they begin as harbingers of good luck and then when it seems the fad is about to die, the desperate practioners change the wording just a little bit and it becomes, "Do this or bad luck will follow."

[BooBoo1000]

I vote for Fairview, Black Eyed Peas, cut up tomato's onion cut up and some Tabasco, also include the dime....Hoooo Ahhhh

[BooBoo1000]

I vote for Fairview, Black Eyed Peas, cut up tomato's onion cut up and some Tabasco, also include the dime....Hoooo Ahhhh