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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RA.MSSTATE.EDU!MAYNOR
  3. Message-ID: <9301021414.AA24751@Ra.MsState.Edu>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:14:33 CST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
  8. Subject: Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
  9. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. > Until the Southerners began talking of the need to eat black-eyed peas
  13. > to insure good luck in the coming year, I had never heard of the
  14. > custom of eating any special food on New Year's Day.
  15.  
  16. Some people think that the black-eyed peas have to be accompanied by hog
  17. jowl, but I think that's mere superstition -- unlike the black-eyed pea
  18. rule, which is truth.
  19.  
  20. > Does anyone know the origin of this?
  21.  
  22. No, but I do know that it's been around a long, long time.
  23.    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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