Cabbage and Black eyed peas-HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 

Will you or did you eat any on Tuesday?

I will have a taste of both. If I don't get a chance to get some of that "cooked down" cabbage, I'll stop and get some cole slaw from somewhere.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, GC PEEPS! :D

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW:
Eating cabbage on New Year's Day means that you will supposedly have extra dollar bills/paper . While, eating the black eyed peas means you will have extra "change" in your pocket.

New Year's Day is the Only time of the year that I will eat cabbage and black-eyed peas... Not my favorite foods to eat...

I'm mad at this post...but it is so true...there is a standing tradition of eating collard greens (not cabbage) in my family along with black eyed-peas. We often eat this as a part of our New Year's Day dinner. My family is from South Carolina, so I don't know if that's why we don't each cabbage..but collards...AKAtude...does your family do the same (or is it anything green?)

Now, to carry this thread in the spirit of the African-American tradition...do you all celebrate the coming of the New Year in church? This would otherwise be known as "Watch Night."

Shalom Everyone~

It would be wrong, rude, stupid, dumb and just plain ol' crazy for me to let 2001 leave and not come HOME and let you all know how much you've been a big part of, and an impact in my life.

This past year with you all has truly been a blessing for me. I praise the LORD for my accidentally finding the Greekchat website while researching for a paper entitled Greek/Hebrew Culture and the Church.

In reading and posting on the GC forums, there were times when I read GC and had to stop, think and reflect on my life; there were times when I had to make changes in what I thought were clear lines of black/white only to discover and embrace the gray; times when I left the forum with an urgency to pray for someone on the forum and times when I left the forum with a prayer and encouragement for another day in my life. Oh, I can't forget the times I was upset or just about through with folks, only to click on to GC and within minutes, be ROTFLMHO until brotha-man thought I had gone crazy (because I sometimes talk to the computer when it's on GC)...and did I ever tell you all brotha-man had a few moments of jealousy because of all the time I spent on GC with y'all? ***Disclaimer, he's not why I've been MIA.....I've had a lot of hospice family members who I have help out with.

It is hard for me to put into words just what you all mean to me especially since I've never met any of you in body/person form. yes, it is weird to have a family to call your own yet without a face. It just goes to show the world that a family is not always about bloodlines, tides or faces, but about the HEART!

Being a GDI, you all have treated me with respect and have given me much love love when you didn't have to do it. Thank you all for that!

To thank you all would be too long of a post so I won't. What I will do is tell you all that I love you and my prayer for each one of you is that you will prosper even as your soul propers unlike any other time in your life! Walk into 2002 with the understanding that you are blessed just as you've been a blessing! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

ps...if it's cabbage and black-eyed peas, why do brotha-man's family do the gumbo thing every New Year???? OKAY, so I hate gumbo.

Hello
My family is from Savannah, Ga and on New years we eat collard
Greens for money and Black-eye peas for luck:D I hope everyone has a safe and a happy NEW YEAR!!!!

Every year I start my year off with Watch Night. One of my Sorors recently told me about its connection to Freedom Eve just before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

New Years Day dinner we have both the cabbage and the collard greens (money) and Black-eyed peas for good luck.

SHALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, Come back!! I've missed you. I was logged on last night and cannot believe I missed the chance to talk to you.

I am glad to know all is well with you. Thank you for praying for us on this board. Thank you for your spirit and attitude. I totally agree that members of GC while faceless have come to mean so much to me in my own life.

I HATE, DESPISE, etc. BLACK EYED PEAS!! UGH! ICK! GROSS!!

The only tradition that I follow is just going to church on New Year's Eve. Last year, I attended my church back home and DC and saw Ben Tankard and Vickie Winans; this year Lisa Kemp will be at my church in Richmond, Virginia. I don't eat cabbage or black-eyed peas and God still increases my financial status each year through some form and fashion. (THANK GOD).

another blast from the past
 

Wow! It's been a while since I've posted (even though I peek in from time to time :D) Glad to see Shalom2U as well!

New Years tradtions in my family included collard greens, black eyed peas and some type of pork product (ham hocks, ham, pork tenderloin). I will be doing the same on that day. Not for luck or money, but just cause My momma nem did it!

Does anyone else have other NYD traditons? My husband's family has this thing about a man has to be the first to visit your house in the new year. Since we don't live in the same city as his mother he always make a point to call her early in the a.m. to be her "first visitor"

My mother is also from South Carolina, cooks collard greens and black-eyed peas for New Year's. I dislike collards, but eat black-eyed peas. She also does a little something called "hoppin' john" that has rice in it.
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Welcome back, MS. MIA
 

Thanks for your presence, I guess better late, than never.

I am not going to church, but I will be with my other family in prayer and thanksgiving. After that, It's gonna be a party ya'll. :D

Happy New Year! :D

Re: another blast from the past
 

I was thinking about you the other day, Eclipse! I was like, she is no joke, her job must REALLY be keeping her off the net! I guess giving up the addiction wasn't so hard after all since they crackin' that whip! ;)

SHALOM!!!!!!!!!! How you just gon' pop in and DIP?! Do you know that I think you might be one of the most asked about MIA GCers? Just so you know... ;)

I can't remember if my family did these traditions of the BEPs and cabbage or not, cuz I don't eat either one. I know that my friend's family did greens and BEPs.

Tonight, my boyfriend is taking me out to dinner and then out dancing. Like my soror said, it's gonna be a party y'all! :D

I hope that everyone has a very safe, blessed, and happy new year! I can't believe that 2000 is gone, let alone 2001. Dang, I won't talk to yall til next year! LOL! :p

Yup
 

You guys know my country folks eat cabbage, and black eyed peas. they also eat a little pork for luck. Go figure.......


I'll eat about a spoonful of each!;) :D :p

Hey regulatah, Don't you hurt nobody!;)

My Granny always put a dime in every windowsill of the house. She said that it brings good luck for the coming year.

On New Year's My mother hooked us up!!
 

My mother fixed black eyed peas, collar greens with fatback and smoke meat in them, fried chicken wings, and pig feet. It was DELICIOUSSSSSSS!! By the way, I am a country girl.:D