Happy New Year
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DocHolladay
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May the best of 2017 be the worst of 2018. Happy New Year.
Jack Terpack
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Happy New Year to all of you. Hope each and every one of you has a blessed year.
Happy new year...may 2018 be a prosperous and blessed year for all of our forum family and friends!
Mennoniteman
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Happy new year. Wishing everyone lots of pork and sauerkraut.
Jeff H
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...or BBQand french fries!!
Is pork and sauerkraut a New Year tradition in the great white North? My mother always did Black Eyed Peas on New Years Day.
The more you eat, the better the year will be. Momma is from Georgia (go dogs!) So I'm thinking it's a Southern tradition.
Mennoniteman
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Pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day is a big PA Dutch thing that has roots in German (kraut) and Irish (pork) traditions. Some superstitious people believe you should eat pork because it’s your luckiest meal of the year, as pigs “root forward,” unlike chickens and turkeys' who “scratch backwards ” — so it symbolizes progress. And the kraut is green, like cash money. The grandparents would tell the children if you eat sauerkraut you'll be sweet all year. I'm not superstitious, we just make it on New Years, because that's what we always did.
Black eyed peas, deer steak, corn, salad, and rolls...black eyed peas are for prosperity, deer steaks are for a great new year hunting season (works well for us), corn for the gold and salad for the green which both have to do with wealth and rolls because I like em 
DocHolladay
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Black-eyed peas, turnip greens, and cornbread.
Mennoniteman
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A big chunk of pork loin, baked in casserole dish.
Mennoniteman
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I just tasted my first collard greens... I just got back from a visit to Macon, MS. We ate at the Wagon Wheel restaurant, and they brought a side of cooked collard greens. I couldn't eat them. Is it an acquired taste, or perhaps they weren't made right?
DocHolladay
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There is a difference between collard greens and turnip greens in flavor. I like them both, but both need to have a big ol' hunk of hog jowl or bacon in it. Collards greens can have a little bitterness to them and I have found that a little vinegar(balsamic is great) knocks that out. Be careful though, to much and all you taste is vinegar. Also, the longer they cook with the pork in them, the better they taste.
Mennoniteman
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We have the saying "if you put enough butter on it even a shingle is good to eat"
Mennoniteman
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Yes, they seemed bitter and overcooked. I'll try them again somewhere else, next time I travel south. Speaking of which, I wish I was there right now, lots of single digits here this week.
