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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:51:37 -0700
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- From: JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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- Subject: Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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- No, Torkel, it's true. I got it from my (Texas) maternal grandmother:
- Gloom & Doom await those foolish enough to not consume blackeye peas and
- *some* form of pork on New Years Day! (I had mine!) She was a very
- superstitious woman but that is the only one that I take to heart. (Except
- for putting a hat on a bed.) I know that blackeye[d] peas are actually a form
- of bean but as for the origin of the tradition I haven't a clue. Rumors
- started by agents of the Pea-Pickers Union, perhaps? 8-)
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- John "Did I mention the cornbread?" W.
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