Black Eyed Peas & Greens?

[MawMaw]

Is it just a southern tradition, or did anyone else have black eyed peas and some sort of greens today for a meal?

[shazeep]

It isn't just southern; i think a pea-type bean--and i guess a side of greens, too? is a tradition in many parts of the world.

[Abiding Now]

Went to Cracker Barrell today and the waiter brought a COMPLIMENTARY dish of blackeyed peas. They were good.

[MawMaw]

The peas really are good!
And I love greens of any kind...cabbage,
turnip, collards, so tasty and good for you!

[KeptByTheWord]

My in-laws had black-eyed peas today, and they are in the south. I cooked rice and pinto beans for supper, and drank green tea... does that count?

[commonsense]

I consider it a southern ritual. I'm a total Yankee

But truthfully have never seen it in da north..............

[MawMaw]

Some interesting lore about the tradition.....

http://americanfood.about.com/od/res...-Eyed-Peas.htm

.........Eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s has been considered good luck for at least 1,500 years. According to a portion of the Talmud written around 500 A.D., it was Jewish custom at the time to eat black-eyed peas in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It’s possible that the tradition arrived in America with Sephardic Jews, who first arrived in Georgia in the 1730s. Common folklore tells that the tradition spread after the Civil War. The Northern Army considered the black-eyed peas to be suitable only for animals, so they didn’t carry away or destroy the crops.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Black-eyed peas and fish was what I knew about growing up.

If it was a southern thing, it was something my family adopted-- and my family doesn't have southern connections.

[shazeep]

there's also some meaning in it being a pea (humble food), and it having an 'eye,' and i think yur s'posed to put greens with it, those meaning (the kind of intuitive) something else. i think there's maybe even a certain way or manner or whatever of the meal involved...

[Miss Scarlett]

We normally have black eyed peas, boiled cabbage and cornbread, but this year I order a cheese pizza, and for my husband an all meat. I didn't cook this year,