On New Years Day, my youngest brother, sister, brother in law, niece, nephew and friends, some of who have been friends for over 30 years get together and eat at least one animal that most of us have not eaten before. We have eaten iguana, python, rattlesnake, camel, alpaca, beaver, muskrat, smelt, guineafowl, chukar, pheasant, goat, venison, kangaroo, bison and more. We eat a lot of other good food too.

This year we ate parrotfish, which was fairly lame. We also had chicken wings, bacon wrapped and nut crusted dates, a few types is prosciutto, salami, shrimp and vegetarian egg rolls, mixed vegetables, nuts, humus, fancy crackers, chocolate candies, cookies a lemon ricotta cake, lots of types of bourbon and whiskey and more.

Keith

What kind of foreign country do you guys all live in eating the same meal!?!?

Yotetrapper’s food is the only one I can picture lol.

When I had a home, not just a house, and there were, we had fresh pork roast, sauerkraut, fried potatoes. Side dishes of cream corn, green beans and candied yams. Dessert was most always apple and peach pie.

Now it will be a TV diner or Dinty Moore beef stew.

Garry-

Not Canada

your black eyed peas tend to be a southern thing they are not actually a pea at all but a bean in the cow pea family.

often thought of as poor people food or animal feed ,in post civil war USA they were some of the only food left after Sherman burned the south.

as we Americans often have , a tradition of eating an otherwise homely food came about think about the Irish American meal corn beef and cabbage was actually what was served on the ships to the US.

from the nutrition and ease of making Black eyed peas are high in carbs and fiber and with the addition of greens that were common a well rounded meal.
you can soak them over night or cook them a little longer so if you partied to hard on new years eve and forgot to soak your beans.
greens are important for nutrition this time of year.


sauerkraut and ham hocks are a German tradition a lot of us in the US myself included have German heritage the 1840-1880 German Migration to the US
I grew up not far from Milwaukee the most German city in the US.

Collard Greens, Hopp'n John, Cornbread. That's the ancient true Southern Good Luck New Years day meal for wealth in the new year. Green for cash, Hopp'n John coins, Cornbread gold. Won't start a year without it and have been doing it for 70+ years.

Then some kind of pork. Ham, cured ham, pulled pork BBQ. And the Collards and Hopp'n John has ham hocks used in cooking them.

We have never had a meal on new years like Christmas or Thanksgiving