Growing up in the southeast USA, there are minor variations to this meal, of course, but any southerner worth his or her salt today is having:
PORK OF SOME KIND (at our house, left over Honeybaked Ham)
BLACK EYED PEAS (for money for the New Year, in this case, coins)
GREENS (Turnip or Collards....green money for the New Year)
RICE (added in by my wife's aunt, for overall "good luck" - ain't gonna argue about it!)
CORN BREAD (served up with butter, maybe a spread of apple butter on each slice)
Top it all off with a bourbon and put Let It Bleed on the music box, and you're in business. Add in a Sugar Bowl victory by my Georgia Bulldogs, and all is right with the world.
Well we're having a different menu this year. Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese and blackeyes. I had some cravings this time around! But the cocktails, cold beer and all that is the same. Glad we have folks pulling for the DOGS on iorr. And right now I'm working on my new solo acoustic version of You Got The Silver. This can't be all bad!! Cheers 5
Well, we're having a variation on the theme, with homemade veggie soup and some blackeyed peas on the side. It's 29 degrees (and dropping) here in WV, with some snow predicted tonight.
Homa-made pizza by undersigned here with tuna, elk, reindeer & some deer meat, pineapple & home-made bread (same undersigned) & elk Bolognese at mys sis's while her son threw a berfday party.
Mongoose, the meal is a tradition in my family too except we also like to smoke a big something something on the back porch before sitting down to eat.
Have a nice dinner everybody from the south! here some pics from my neighborhood (the south of holland) We eat ollie bollen and appel flappen...on new years eve ....new years day and today its Indonesian food foo me!!but your southern dinner gets me hungry to!!! Happy new year!
They do all kind of things Luke....it was kind of wild..and stupid (alcohol) but there was lots of fun ...and a lot of food and more....but nobody got stumpy
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008-01-02 22:07 by rooster.
Lukester Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hey rooster, do they blow up cars in your > neighborhood to celebrate New Years Day? My Uncle > Stumpy did that before the accident.
HAHAHA!
I have never heard of this Southern NY meal. I hope everyone enjoyed their meal, and I'm even more thankful that I didn't have to have any of that kind of food!
We had turkey and trimmin's on Thanksgiving, but Christmas '06 and '07 we had Chicken'n'dumplin's and some good spicy chili. New Years was ham, potato salad, cabbage, black eye peas, chips and salsa, etc. Dang, it's early and I'm making myself hungry.