Picked up the black-eye peas yet?

da.bees · Dec 31, 2015

Around N.Tx folks (me included) make a point of eating Black Eyed Peas on New Years eventhough most claim they are not superstitious. We could go on and on with a list of superstitions but I would like to hear about those you believe or at least go along with simply out of tradition or to humor those around you. Some more I follow eventhough I don't consider myself superstitious. Carry bride accross threashhold. Groom not seeing bride before wedding on wedding day. Something new,old,borrowed and something blue. Witching water wells. Lucky bat or glove. Tapping bat on home plate. Never gift an empty wallet. Plus a few I will not own up to. LOL

Dick L · Dec 31, 2015

I don't really have any superstitions but my Southern wife Dixie bought the black eyed peas last evening. She has been with me for 13 new years and black eyed peas is a must. I never had them before we got married. Normally keeps them around all the time but she used up the supply making black eyed pea salad or Christmas. That is also a hit here that she brought to the North.

Leroy · Dec 31, 2015

Just what are Black Eyed Peas? Have heard the term but have no idea what they are. Seed catalogs never had anything in called that.

47fivewindow · Dec 31, 2015

Greens on Jan 1 bring money! Have some kale.

37chief · Dec 31, 2015

Dad raised Lima beans and Blackeye beans (you call them peas)Nothing Mom could do to them to make them tasty. We did eat a lot of Lima Beans though. Stan

Greg1959 · Dec 31, 2015

Mom always cooked cabbage with a silver dollar in it on New Years.

Me, I won't walk under a ladder. I won't cross a black cats path...if I have to.... Then I'll back up across the path and spit. Also, I knock on wood whenever I say some things.

And last but not least...I'll never leave a hammer laying on the top of a ladder.

JerryS · Dec 31, 2015

Never start a project on Friday if you can't finish it that day.

Knock on wood.

Throw salt over your shoulder.

Don't get married more than twice. (That's one I just started.)

da.bees · Dec 31, 2015

Here you go Leroy.
The botanical name for the black-eyed pea is Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata, although previously it was classified in the genus Phaseolus. Vigna unguiculata subsp. dekindtiana is the wild relative and Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis is the related asparagus bean.

Steve@Advance · Dec 31, 2015

da.bees... That's exactly what I thought they were! LOL

Texan description: Medium to dark brown pea (bean?) about 1/2 inch long with a black dot on one side, in the middle.

Official taste description: Dirt! I'll eat them, not my favorite though...

My superstitions: None really. But I don't walk under ladders, common sense. (See above about laying a hammer on top of a ladder!)

However... When I was a twenty something, leaving work one evening, a black cat ran across in front of my car. Sure enough, on my way home a pick up made a right turn out of the left lane directly into my left fender! Bad luck? Curse? Coincidence? I choose the latter!

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

Greg 1959,

What if I were to say I may have driven over (accidentally) a black cat that was trying to cross the road and I didn't see it till too late? Dark morning on my way to work.

Does the bad luck run reverse?

D.

tomstractorsandtoys · Dec 31, 2015

You should always eat pork on New Years and never chicken. My grandmother always said a pig roots forward but a chicken scratches backward. This tradition comes from her grandmother so dates back to the Civil War or before. Tom

hermit · Dec 31, 2015

Black eyed peas, cabbage, and cornbread here tomorrow for dinner (12 noon!). This is in south central Texas.

Greg1959 · Dec 31, 2015

DENNIS MIN- LOL! If you hit it and it did not complete it's path then you are okay.

GregCO · Dec 31, 2015

Black-eyed peas, ham hocks, and collards are on the stove now.

Greg

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

Greg 1959,

Yep, the darkish colored cat kissed the front of my vehicle (no vehicular damages to speak of).

I asked at work what that may mean...they said I am "holy", or perhaps wholly, without reprimand in this instance...

I do not fell good about the interference.

D

Jerry/MT · Dec 31, 2015

My wife is a pure quill Texan (Born in Tyler, TX and graduated from Texas Tech in Lubbock). We would not let New years day pass without blackeyed peas and ham hocks. Love her and love them!

Jerry/MT · Dec 31, 2015

Forgot to mention corn bread! Can"t have "em without corn bread!

Dell (WA) · Dec 31, 2015

Mom always made Oyster Stew (soup) for 1st meal of New Years. Suppose to bring good luck. (old German folk tradition) Milk, Oysters, little "C's" of celery floating in yellow butter, sprinkled with fresh cracked BLACK pepper. Topped with real round oyster crackers. Gotta slow cooker warmin' the milk rite now (8PM)........now why am I slobbering? ......Dell, speakin' of oysters, used to go to a bar in New Orleans and eat 1-dozen on 1/2-shell with BIG bloody Mary with horseradish and celery stick

Leroy · Jan 1, 2016

Old german folk tradition, I think not. My roots are German and NO BODY would think of touching an oyster let alone eating one.

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