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.

What time can y'all come over?

Just finished this same meal, Mongoose. Several cocktails between now and kick-off at 8:30.

Go Dawgs!

Scotty in South Georgia

"No Anchovies, Please"

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

All that stuff plus a piping hot bowl of gumbo with
a dash of Tabasco sauce!

Maybe some bananas foster for dessert.

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.

My New Years dinner is consisting of Corona & Cuervo...Can you say hair of the dawg?

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Mongoose, had the same yesterday. My girlfriend is a Yankee so I'm trying to teach her our good Southern food traditions.

Baboon, that is one helluva pizza! Does it come with a stomach pump?

The Dawgs looked awesome in totally destroying the formerly undefeated Hawaii Warriors.

"No Anchovies, Please"

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!

Hey rooster, do they blow up cars in your neighborhood to celebrate New Years Day? My Uncle Stumpy did that before the accident.

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



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Lukester Wrote:
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> 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!

Thanks for posting Rooster......that's the way we are celebrate New Year in "The Haque" don't we ??????

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Bestah wensah!!! Nic!! yes its true...but in the 70 ties and 80 ties it was even more war and you know this!!



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yeah, Bestah wensah Nico and Rooster

Yeah luke im gonna play Southbound by Thin Lizzy right now!! Rock on!!

Honeybaked ham
Cornbread
Black-Eye Peas - of course
Mac & Cheese for the kids
Pan-fried cabbage

and a few Shiner Black Lagers

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.

....yeah, and it's early and I already want to go blow up a car.....