Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m from the south. New Year’s Day is always pork, black eyed peas, and greens. Health and wealth! I can do without the pork but new year’s day without black eyed peas feels blasphemous.
The reason you eat pork is because a pig can’t look behind him.
NP with a mom from the South, but I never heard this. I assumed it was because, you know, South, pork, etc. plus the fact that you shouldn't eat chicken or you'll be scratching (scraping for money, for everything) in the new year.