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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:08:37 -0500
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- From: Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
- Subject: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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- Until the Southerners began talking of the need to eat black-eyed peas
- to insure good luck in the coming year, I had never heard of the
- custom of eating any special food on New Year's Day.
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- Does anyone know the origin of this?
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- Happy & healthy New Year to all,
- Joan
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- P.S. I vote with Ruth: canned green peas are terrible -- fresh or frozen
- can be great.
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