Do you eat certain foods for luck, on certain days or holidays?

Wow...those are some superstitions..lol Out here, people eat a sweet made from jaggery and sesame seeds around January 15th, which is a festival called Sankranthi. It is supposed to calm the mind and help people be soft spoken to each other, and consequently remain friends. I dont know if there is any scientific explanation for this, but it is a tradition in some parts of the country. :)

WE did nt have one in the west that I know of but wehn went to the south was blackeyed peas and hog jowl hard to find hog jowl here but we try and black eyeds peas can be found in a can

I just can't think of any traditional foods in our culture that symbolize luck. But mom usually cook fried noodles on birthdays. Noodles symbolises longevity but no mention of luck.

Hi GG, nothing out of the ordinary here. I'm baking some pork chops and sauerkraut for New Years and I did find a can of black-eyed peas which I love. I'll cook up something special for myself with the peas. I have half a bag of potatoes too, so I'll make myself some mashed. It'll be a nice meal and hopefully bring a little luck for this coming year, although my last one wasn't too bad. Anyways, Happy New Year GG!

we eat rice cone at a special celebration so that our lives become better in the future. I do not know that we are living in this tradition, because it was mixed with the foreign culture.

Hi GG! I read that corned beef and cabbage was eaten on New Years day for good luck and prosperity in the coming year in an Irish household. I grew up in an Irish Catholic home but never heard that. I don't recall any particular foods being eaten for luck. But on New Year's day my mother usually cooked a ham and vegetables, like squash, mashed potatoes, carrots, etc. I don't like squash. We always had corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's day. Abraham Lincoln's inaugural dinner was corned beef and cabbage, just to throw in a little trivia for ya. There's a tradition of the "peppermint pig" started in the 1800's in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., but that was a Christmas tradition. And it was supposed to bring good luck. Certainly not for the peppermint pig, though, which was broken apart by each person, in turn, seated at the table, with a little metal hammer. That's here www.peppermintpig.com and here www.saratogasweets.com/peppermint-pig-tale.cfm And I wish you and your family a very Happy New Year!!

We always try to have beans and cornbread. It's supposed to bring you good luck during the year - or prosperity or something like that. We won't do it this year though because everyone has had a virus and no one feels up to eating beans.

I can't say that I'm familiar with any of these! Growing up Catholic, we were not allowed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent, although my mom told us that until 1969, adults had to fast that day! I've heard of the Christmas Eve tradition, that of eating the Seven Fishes, but we never practiced it. And also during Lent, we always had to give up something like candy or soda or fast food; you couldn't have it from Ash Wednesday until after Easter. Those are the only ones that I'm familiar with.

I just put my broccoli and shrimp recipe on my blog I have enjoyed some interesting concoctions at Chinese New Year's parties, usually with red beans, which I like very much. The Japanese gentleman who recently went on record as the oldest living man in the world said he likes red beans, so that is encouraging. But no, nothing I make is for good luck on any particular day and my only food ritual is to try to eat up the seeds I saved from last year's pumpkin before opening this year's pumpkin, and that might be to avoid bad luck. Oh, come to think of it, saving my Halloween pumpkin and making pies out of it for Thanksgiving and Christmas is sort of a ritual. Well, maybe there are more I've forgotten. I love corned beef with or without cabbage any day of the year. I buy that when it is on sale. I think the best thing I made this year was my own version of eggs in a nest: I layer a pie pan with tender ham and cover it with biscuit dough. Then I cut circles out of the dough and put them along the edge. After the biscuits start to rise I drop whole eggs into the holes and grate cheese over the eggs then bake again until the eggs are done. Sometimes I pour gravy over half of the biscuits before baking the eggs, but usually I serve the gravy at the table and people can put their own on, as that way the biscuits are crunchier on top and flakier on the inside. Makes me hungry just thinking about it. I don't eat that kind of breakfast every day or I could be enormous,

I haven't established food traditions...although when I was a teen and took over cooking for my parents (I was planning menus and cooking meals for a family of four when I was twelve) I taught them very quickly to keep me happy. If they annoyed me I would either treat them like Greek Gods and serve them burnt offerings or I would leave the food half raw, which ever was the more horrible way to present the food. My meals for New Years Eve and New Years Day are as follows: For New Year's Eve we're having New York cut steaks with au gratin potatoes and home made yeast rolls. Then for New Year's day I am doing a center cut rib roast wrapped in bacon done on the Underwear* Rotisserie basted with bbq sauce and then there will be garlic/Parisian roasted potatoes and the home made yeast rolls. Bill will be bringing down peaches to go with the meals. I don't know if anything we're eating is lucky, but it will be good! Plus with the roast we will have enough left over to make sandwiches on the 3rd. (I have to go to my doctor at Stanford Hospital on the 2nd.) I have been hungry for fortune cookies, and I guess I am going to have to find somewhere to buy some. It is so funny what my system craves! I guess I'll have to call a Chinese take out place and find out how much they would charge for about ten fortune cookies... *For those wondering what an "Underwear" rotisserie is, it is actually supposed to be a Farberware rotisserie! The spelling corrector came up with the "underwear" rotisserie and I got a super chuckle out of it, and had to use it....I hope others will see the humor in the correction too!

Not for luck. I am a traditional person so I do eat turkey on the holidays. Oh, yes and corned beef and cabbage too on St. Pat's Day. More out of respect for my heritage than for luck. Something good to eat? Not sure of anything. I have an odd recipe for ribs and sour kraut. I like it! Sweet and sour and all.

I live in Texas and people eat black eyed peas for good luck. I do not particularly like them so I eat them in a cold salad that I buy at my organic supermarket. The name of the salad is Texas Caviar. I buy a small amount. I have also heard that pork and sauerkraut are supposed to bring good luck. Also, cabbage. I eat a lot of different things for good luck on New year's Eve and Day. Sometimes, I end up with digestive problems from mixing up so many foods. I think that i will try to be a little more careful this year. The Spanish eat 12 grapes at midnight.

We have a lot of food tradtions do I think any of them are lucky, certainly not, I haven't even heard of certain foods bringing luck. I know we changed up Christmas for the first time this year. Instead of having Ham or Turkey we had Prime Rib instead and boy was id delicious. So Glad we were able to try it.

Hey Gerty, some of those traditions are celebrated in the US, my family will have the black eye peas, collard greens, and some cornbread with some beef ribs and bake chicken ( we don't eat pork) we always have the black eyed peas my mom demand that we have them. I have never had hopping john it sounds good minus the pork. Happy New Year to you.

I've never spent much time thinking about bad luck, because I believe each person makes his or her own luck. Perhaps this is why I never buy lottery tickets, because I'm scared that I'd win. Of course I never take silly chances either like driving or riding in a car with no seatbelts. Only an unlucky person would do a thing like that!

I've not usually held with the eat-for-luck here at the new year's time. But I've decided to go with the flow this year. I just put the black-eyed peas to soak and looked up a recipe for a cornbread that might be better than my own. Hoppin John, rice and cornbread; that will be enough for me. Didn't think to get any collards, kale or other greens. Guess I'll just have to do without the money. Been doing that for a long time anyway. So, I'm all set for this new year's day at least. But I don't think I'll be carrying it all the way through for any of the other 'luck' days.

We do the black eye peas and pork thing here. I remember greens too when I was little but I just do the black peas. My b/f is from Indiana and I think he did corned beef and cabbage the first New Year he was with us. I'll have to ask him about that to make sure I'm not thinking of St Patrick's Day.

No, not for me. Today is just like any other day food wise. I started off with a large green smoothie and will see what happens after that. It is pretty hot here today, so salads and fruit are very appealing! Happy New Year GG, hope it is fantastic for you.

Good thread! here we usually eat the dumpling on Chinese New Year's Eve,which is a sort of wheaten food made by stuffing finely chopped meat and vegetable in a wrapper,in a semicircle shape.Since the dumpling is shaped like an ingot used as money in old times,so eating dumpling means getting rich next year like your eating greens and cornbread.We eat round sweet dumplings made of glutinous rice flour at the Lantern Festival-the night of the 15th of the 1st lunar month,That means everything will be complete success.

Hi friend, I have never heard in my life that food can change or improve the fate of any man or woman. But we know that good foods improve our health and keep us fit for hard work. Have a nice day.