How many of you are eating your black eyed peas for luck?

I didn't know that black eyed peas were supposed to bring good luck! I heard once that frogs were supposed to attract prosperity and had my desk loaded up with tons of different frogs and it didn't work! LOL....

Well there you go, I guess I really do learn something new every day because I have never heard of eating black eyed peas on New Years for good luck in the upcoming year. If I may be so bold as to say I'm grateful that we don't have that tradition here, I don't really like black eyed peas and things that are mushy. Come to think of it, I put black eyed peas in the same category as refried beans.... And Lima beans... I think this may have become a list of all the vegetables or lentils that I don't like. I am really not a picky eater, but I just can't stomach Lima beans or water chestnuts..., Other than that everything else is fair game. All the best this New Year and Happy Mylotting!

We don't have that tradition here in the UK my friend, but after having turkey for Christmas Day and pork for Boxing Day, today we had Roast beef and all the trimmings, usually New Year's Day is a sombre affair with Christmas and all the festivities out of the way it's into January which always seems to be a depressive month for most, with SAD etc, but I am feeling much more positive and I think luck is what we make ourselves, reach out to new opportunities and the world will sway your way, I really hope that 2009 will be blessed for me and of course to you too!

I am still so stuffed from dinner and eating my black eyed peas. We had meat loaf, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and black eyed peas!!! My grandson don't like black eyed peas but we do get him to eat them, he was told a few years ago that he could just eat one for each year of his age and it works. When I was in the hospital 2 years ago in ICU my kids even brought (snuck) in a bite of them for me. hahaha

I never heard of blackeyed peas as good luck, even though I lived in FL and TX where people ate a lot of them. Growing up in Pennsylvania, the only good luck thing we had on New Year's was a big big breakfast roll/coffee cake thing that was baked in the shape of a pretzel. The middle was filled with some kind of nutty mixture. It was great. Then years later when I lived in Texas, I discovered lots of people who insisted that one must eat pork and sourkraut for good luck. We're not eating anything special today. Probably left overs.

I used to have to eat them when I was a kid. I don't much care for them so as an adult I just have a very large spread of food in celebration. You could not visit my home as a child on New Years Day without having black eyed peas and boiled cabbage.lol

I had black eyed peas for luck and greens for money. I do every year. Can't say as that it helps, but I like to keep with traditions.

We had dinner over to my sister's house and we had the traditiona Black eyed peas for good luck, I didn't eat any and I didn't cook at home. I hope it is just superstition and I am still entiled to my good luck because I am going to need it facing the year without a job.

Must be a southern tradition. Only heard about it here a couple of days ago. I'm not sure that I've ever even had black eyed peas more than one time in my life. Hmmm... how are they cooked for New Years? Like pinto beans with a little ham?

My mother and her mother before her ate black eyed peas every new years day for luck. I don't, b/c I don't like them. My mother also cooked collards with the black eyed peas, she hated collards. I guess maybe that was part of the lucky meal her mother cooked. Sounds silly to me, but traditions are personal and I guess it does not matter what I think.