Do you eat a certain food for New Years for luck?

We always ate black eyed peas on New Years as well. Mom said it would bring good luck in the new year. Not that she really believed that, it was just a tradition.

I have no idea how it originated.

I don't know it's meaning. However, my Grandma always said one should eat cooked cabbage on New Years for luck.

I have heard of this, though not practiced it. I think the black eyed peas are supposed to represent coins and the cabbage is symbolic of green currency-- so it would indicate a hope for wealth in the new year.

Never heard of this before...this is the very first time I come across eating black eyed peas or cabbage would bring good luck in the new year...I would be glad enough to find it out though...

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