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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:21:33 EST
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- From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
- Subject: Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:16:24 +0100 from <torkel@SICS.SE>
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- On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:16:24 +0100 <torkel@SICS.SE> said:
- > >Does anyone know the origin of this?
- >
- > Natalie just made it up. She's pulling our collective leg.
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- Natalie is right: it is a tradition of long standing in the South.
- I wonder if its origin might be sociological -- hog jowl and black-eyes
- being within the reach of all households, however humble. Just
- wondering.
-
- brad
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