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As a child I can remember the watch night services. Oh my what time we had ,sometimes they would go all night . Ladies would prepare food to eat. Even in my adult life the watch night services I so would enjoy. Some had foot washing. Where I live now it is very hard to find watch night services few and far between. How I miss those days. As child lot of times just sleep in or under pew.one time woke up hit my daddy's foot good he yelled o halluia (spelled wrong).Then the preacher man halliued back with my dad's name to then they started singing and shoutin.Gosh sometimes you really miss those times of fellowship + food etc. They seem to somehow just stop existing.really like your stories and research you have done
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you for comment. My Dad passed on to some cassettes I know you know what those are lol. Do you know at one time they had radio broadcast on Sunday mornings? They also had services in cemeteries like memorial weekend .people would bring food set up a table loaded with goodies. People actually would be visiting and get some churchin at the same time. One time as an older adult went visit my dad , my dad's friend who was sheriff of the county came ask him are you going fishing ? My dad said ya buddy today there biting. Sherrif said I will get the boat be back. My dad ask sherrif what about the fella you're suppose to arrest? Sherrif said I will get him later he can't run or hide. Besides rather go fishing with my buddy and catch those fish while they are biting.True story to the t. Us hillbilly Hoosiers where quite shocked with laughter about this. Sorry just wanted to share.
Appalachian folks are the most down to earth, interesting people. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face whenever I watch your channel. . HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIEND!!! 🎆🧨🎇🌠🎆🎉🧨🌠🥂
Hey that sounds like me. I don't really care for black eye peas but I have them every New Years day. My parents did it, I'm sure their parents did it. Passed on to generations
I was raised by my grandparents in far Eastern Kentucky down in ol Bell Co. rite outside of Middlesboro, we did a lot of the stuff described in the video and I'm still alive so I'd say hey better not leave anything to chance!! Bahahaha
We were all Southerners of Irish and Welsh extraction so it was Black-eyed Peas and Spinach for us every single New Year’s. My Grandma said it would keep away bad luck and “haints”. Mom still hassles me about it, God Bless her. If we’re walking down the street, she won’t let a post or sign come between us either. I only became superstitious after deploying to Haiti in the ‘90s. Great channel
Mama ALWAYS did black eyed peas & hog jowls or salt pork if she couldn't find jowl. We sell out fast on both fast around here. I haven't always done it but I intend to start back.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Yes I grew up on some awesome food, which I raised my own kids on. I love Corn Bread, I only put a tiny bit of sugar in for browning. Cornbread and lots of butter, my dad loved Cornbread and Butter Milk.💕
My great grandma from the Appalachian mountains of Southern West Virginia used to make Sauerkraut & Pork on New Years day & she would cook it w/a silver nickel in it for good luck. Ik I've always made sure I make some type of dish that had pork, sauerkraut &/or cabbage in it on New Years Eve every year and sometimes I'll make a black eyed peas dish called Georgia Caviar & boy is it good. The only problem nowadays is trying to find a coin that is silver anymore. They started getting rid of all the silver in the dimes & nickels by 1975 for sure & most real silver coins or even copper ones for that matter have been pulled out of circulation by now so it's a rarity to come across one & Ik that I'm not cooking any of today's coins in my food! Thanks for doing this video. I've always found the old wives tales & superstitions of the ppl from the Appalachian Mountain chain very intriguing. Happy New Year to & your family.
I know about black-eyed peas and greens but gave up on them after it didn't always work 🥴 I'd also heard that whatever you did on New Years Day is what you'd be doing for the rest of the year... I think it was used as an excuse to not do chores 🤔 Thanks JD for more superstitions I'd never heard 🎄☃️🎄❤️
What a rich beautiful culture we have been the honor of being. I'm getting quite old and your videos make me cry, smile, miss "home" very very much and the magnificent grandparents we had...🌹🙏🙏🏻🙏🏿🙏🏽🌹 Happy New Year.
I remember eating black eye peas ever since I was young, 62 now, and still do every New Years day but never knew the story behind it, thank you and have a great New Year and don't forget to eat your black eye peas.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Yes love it, I've been so hungry for wilted lettuce lately. What I loved come harvest season for the garden. We would have nothing but Veggies a whole meal of fresh veggies. I loved when we would have pan squash, fried in bacon grease 💕
I remember my Mamaw ( God rest her soul). She was very superstitious. Everything one of her family members or friend died. She would hang sheets over all her household mirrors. I remember asking her as a 6 yr old child why. She said so their spirit wont get trapped & can go on to heaven. Wow. She never stepped under ladders. And absolutely never opened an umbrella ☔ inside her house. Bad luck. Also, She Always waited until New Years Day to hang her calendar. She also always made the ham, black eyed peas, collard greens, & cornbread on New Year's Day. Myself & my Mother always cook the same thing too every New Years Day. Great video. Thanks from here in East Tennessee in the Appalachian Mountains.
Wow! I remember not being able to hang up next years calendar before New Years Day. Too Cool! Thanks for stirring up a nice ole memory JD. Hope your New Year is prosperous, joyful, filled with blessings, heath, love and peace.
After getting our kids n grandkids back on the roads to their homes. After Christmas Day enjoyment together. A true White Christmas in Grand Haven Michigan. 2 feet of fresh snow . Then my requisite Facebooking on local TV stations ,,politics,,, my guilty pleasure. I need a dose of Appalachian Storyteller. Cant say the items you bring up things my Kentucky born n raised Ma n Pa did? But its warm n comforting to just listen to these stories. God Bless n Happy 2023 ..
We never hang a new calendar until the 1st of January!! I won't be answering the door to any women first!! Never tried black eyed peas!! Lobster is too expensive anyway!! Lol!! Have a good one Donny!!😊Robbie
You know, Lobster used to be so plentiful in Maine, that you could walk the beach each morning and pick up 1000s of them every day. In fact, they fed lobster to prisoners every day, until the prisoners convinced the government that it was cruel and unusual punishment to make them each the "garbage of the sea". A law was passed to protect the prisoners. Since then, now Americans pay billions a year to eat this prison food!!! HAHAHA!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller It was the same in New Zealand except we have crayfish, and I remember walking around the coast turning over rocks and getting an abundance of anything you wanted!!
Just love these videos hope you and your family had a good Christmas and have a happy New year can't wait till the next one have a blessed Monday night ❤️
We called the first guest -first footing. And my dad wouldn’t let the first person be anything but a dark haired male and they had to be bringing a loaf of bread or a plain cake. I love hearing about these traditions
I’m 64 years old and when my siblings and I were younger my mom would make us eat at least a spoonful of black eyed peas on new years. The only other one I know was never wash on New Year’s Day or you would be washing for the dead. I still eat black eyed peas on New Year’s Day but I like them!!!
We always eat Hoppin John’s that has black eyed peas, greens, cornbread and pork. Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
Get a bag of dry black eyes and follow the directions on the side of the bag, sort for broken peas, any debris that may have gotten by the processing process etc. Soak your peas overnight as opposed to the quick soak method. Once your peas are ready for heat, start your pot out with a ham bone, ham hock, or my preference...diced up fat back...or for the city folk....salt pork... and a bit of veggie oil and render your hock or fat back, sweating the meat till it gives up it's wonderful pork fat. Add your peas, water etc and as per your bag directions, 6-8 cups of water and bring the peas and fat back loveliness to a boil, and then reduce heat and simmer per your directions. Once they become tender, season to taste. Some folks add a lil sugar along with salt and pepper. Big pot, alot of water, dont overcook to mush but don't undercook either. Collard greens are my favorite! If my fingers weren't tired, i would have included a recipe for them but generally speaking, its almost like cooking the peas...fresh washed greens, strip most of the stem, rip the leaves into no special length or width, just rip them up like a piece of notebook paper. Big pot, render a hock or fat back add greens, water, enough to cover greens, salt, pepper and simmer the greens for a couple hours on the stove top.... 😋 mmmm, im getting hungry. Make sure you include corn bread, cause eating black eye peas and collard greens without cornbread is against the law in the south! Enjoy!
@@bryanbennett972 Careful Bryan. Just kidding, but right. A low-key way to get some house work done. I respect people's superpowers, and how they view the world is endlessly fascinating. Keep up the god work.
yea, after seeing the photos of those people, i can see all those precautions really worked well! it is always better to rely on God than on "luck" because there is no such thing as luck! luck is for the devil's crowd, not for Gods people! sorry but that is the way it is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
My grandma on my dad's side was very superstitious if you got a new pair of shoes even if they're still in the box you don't put them on the table or bed same with hats and don't let a black cat cross your path I remember riding in the back seat and the car.it swerving and my dad said what the heck(he#@) she nicknamed him Butch she said Butch there was a black cat and I'm not about to let that thing cross my path or this car with me in it 😆 he said you could've made us wreck.. she said yeah but we didn't.. and if you find a penny and it's not heads up don't pick it up. But this was year round. I do remember black eyes peas but that's all I can remember
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I plan to fix baked ham, black eyed peas, turnip greens, sweet potatoes and cornbread for New Year's.
As a child I can remember the watch night services. Oh my what time we had ,sometimes they would go all night . Ladies would prepare food to eat. Even in my adult life the watch night services I so would enjoy. Some had foot washing. Where I live now it is very hard to find watch night services few and far between. How I miss those days. As child lot of times just sleep in or under pew.one time woke up hit my daddy's foot good he yelled o halluia (spelled wrong).Then the preacher man halliued back with my dad's name to then they started singing and shoutin.Gosh sometimes you really miss those times of fellowship + food etc. They seem to somehow just stop existing.really like your stories and research you have done
Wow, what great memories, thank you so much for sharing them, I was imagining being there in that church service
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you for comment. My Dad passed on to some cassettes I know you know what those are lol. Do you know at one time they had radio broadcast on Sunday mornings? They also had services in cemeteries like memorial weekend .people would bring food set up a table loaded with goodies. People actually would be visiting and get some churchin at the same time. One time as an older adult went visit my dad , my dad's friend who was sheriff of the county came ask him are you going fishing ? My dad said ya buddy today there biting. Sherrif said I will get the boat be back. My dad ask sherrif what about the fella you're suppose to arrest? Sherrif said I will get him later he can't run or hide. Besides rather go fishing with my buddy and catch those fish while they are biting.True story to the t. Us hillbilly Hoosiers where quite shocked with laughter about this. Sorry just wanted to share.
@@debkrummreich3883 Love that story. You know I did a video on services in graveyards on Memorial Day. Look up "Decoration day in Appalachia"
My 90 year old aunt has to have black eyed peas for new years even though she dont like them nor does she eat them any other time.
indeed, many old timers do that, better safe than sorry
My mama had to drop a dime in her cabbage rolls pot on New Years Day. She did this all my life
Appalachian folks are the most down to earth, interesting people. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face whenever I watch your channel. . HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIEND!!! 🎆🧨🎇🌠🎆🎉🧨🌠🥂
Hey that sounds like me. I don't really care for black eye peas but I have them every New Years day. My parents did it, I'm sure their parents did it. Passed on to generations
I was raised by my grandparents in far Eastern Kentucky down in ol Bell Co. rite outside of Middlesboro, we did a lot of the stuff described in the video and I'm still alive so I'd say hey better not leave anything to chance!! Bahahaha
Yup 😂
We were all Southerners of Irish and Welsh extraction so it was Black-eyed Peas and Spinach for us every single New Year’s. My Grandma said it would keep away bad luck and “haints”. Mom still hassles me about it, God Bless her. If we’re walking down the street, she won’t let a post or sign come between us either. I only became superstitious after deploying to Haiti in the ‘90s. Great channel
Thank you sir!
Mama ALWAYS did black eyed peas & hog jowls or salt pork if she couldn't find jowl. We sell out fast on both fast around here. I haven't always done it but I intend to start back.
We always had peas of some sort for Prosperity for New Years. I love black eyed peas with, pork or sausages, and squash
thats mighty fine eatin' there
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Yes I grew up on some awesome food, which I raised my own kids on. I love Corn Bread, I only put a tiny bit of sugar in for browning. Cornbread and lots of butter, my dad loved Cornbread and Butter Milk.💕
I have my new calendar waiting to hang on the first and not a day before. ❤
❤️
Your channel is just magic, such a wonderful narrating voice and such fascinating content!!! Thank you for your work!
Thank you 🙏
My great grandma from the Appalachian mountains of Southern West Virginia used to make Sauerkraut & Pork on New Years day & she would cook it w/a silver nickel in it for good luck.
Ik I've always made sure I make some type of dish that had pork, sauerkraut &/or cabbage in it on New Years Eve every year and sometimes I'll make a black eyed peas dish called Georgia Caviar & boy is it good. The only problem nowadays is trying to find a coin that is silver anymore. They started getting rid of all the silver in the dimes & nickels by 1975 for sure & most real silver coins or even copper ones for that matter have been pulled out of circulation by now so it's a rarity to come across one & Ik that I'm not cooking any of today's coins in my food!
Thanks for doing this video. I've always found the old wives tales & superstitions of the ppl from the Appalachian Mountain chain very intriguing.
Happy New Year to & your family.
Happy new year!
I know about black-eyed peas and greens but gave up on them after it didn't always work 🥴 I'd also heard that whatever you did on New Years Day is what you'd be doing for the rest of the year... I think it was used as an excuse to not do chores 🤔 Thanks JD for more superstitions I'd never heard 🎄☃️🎄❤️
Id sure hate to be doing chores for the whole year!
I like chores, cleanliness is next to godliness
What a rich beautiful culture we have been the honor of being. I'm getting quite old and your videos make me cry, smile, miss "home" very very much and the magnificent grandparents we had...🌹🙏🙏🏻🙏🏿🙏🏽🌹 Happy New Year.
Happy new year 🎈
I remember eating black eye peas ever since I was young, 62 now, and still do every New Years day but never knew the story behind it, thank you and have a great New Year and don't forget to eat your black eye peas.
Happy New Year!
I just took my 2023 calendar down, after watching this. Lol
Whew!
I have heard of the black-eyed peas for New Years Eve. Some of these other superstitions do make sense. I'm glad I learned about these.
I'm fixing black eyed peas for New Years
Mom used to make wilted lettuce with bacon drippings and brown sugar. Yummy and corn bread
mmmm, good stuff!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Yes love it, I've been so hungry for wilted lettuce lately. What I loved come harvest season for the garden. We would have nothing but Veggies a whole meal of fresh veggies. I loved when we would have pan squash, fried in bacon grease 💕
We still have watch service every year! Praying the old year out and the new year in!
Love this!
Went many a time with daddy when we were growing up to the Freewill Baptist Church to pray out the old year and pray in the new! 🙏🏼
Finally I got to see my favorite historical channel.
Merry Christmas 🎅 Everyone !!!!
Still eating cornbread, greens and blackeyed peas here on the First.
My grandma always said "don't wash clothes on New Year day, it'll wash your luck away."
Yup! And on Christmas too
Damn I literally did everything wrong for New Years :/ May God help me
@@LynetteTheMadScientist 😂 🤞
I remember my Mamaw ( God rest her soul). She was very superstitious. Everything one of her family members or friend died. She would hang sheets over all her household mirrors. I remember asking her as a 6 yr old child why. She said so their spirit wont get trapped & can go on to heaven. Wow. She never stepped under ladders. And absolutely never opened an umbrella ☔ inside her house. Bad luck. Also, She Always waited until New Years Day to hang her calendar. She also always made the ham, black eyed peas, collard greens, & cornbread on New Year's Day. Myself & my Mother always cook the same thing too every New Years Day. Great video. Thanks from here in East Tennessee in the Appalachian Mountains.
Thanks for sharing mamaws story
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Thank you for your channel Sir. Obviously I can relate to it so much. Lol. Have a beautiful day
Thanks for sharing this I have ate black eyed peas cabbage pork and cornbread every New Years day since I was a child
Good eating
Wow! I remember not being able to hang up next years calendar before New Years Day. Too Cool! Thanks for stirring up a nice ole memory JD. Hope your New Year is prosperous, joyful, filled with blessings, heath, love and peace.
Happy new year!🎈
After getting our kids n grandkids back on the roads to their homes. After Christmas Day enjoyment together. A true White Christmas in Grand Haven Michigan. 2 feet of fresh snow . Then my requisite Facebooking on local TV stations ,,politics,,, my guilty pleasure. I need a dose of Appalachian Storyteller. Cant say the items you bring up things my Kentucky born n raised Ma n Pa did? But its warm n comforting to just listen to these stories. God Bless n Happy 2023 ..
I do these things every year .God bless our lands and each other .happy new year
Happy new year 🎊
Wew...glad I learned these in the nick of time.....thanks man...✌️👍
shew! good thing 😊
Washing clothes on New years Day washes relative way
and on Christmas!
Wish I had known that 50yrs ago! Would've spared a lot of misery.
@@HzFvr , Amen! 😂😂😂
@@suzybailey-koubti8342 👍
Hey storyteller it’s always good to hear a video from you
Thank you Randle, Happy New Year my friend
Black eyed peas, greens and ham hock! I've know this my whole life but the other superstitions are new to me !
That’s some good eatin
We never hang a new calendar until the 1st of January!! I won't be answering the door to any women first!! Never tried black eyed peas!! Lobster is too expensive anyway!! Lol!! Have a good one Donny!!😊Robbie
You know, Lobster used to be so plentiful in Maine, that you could walk the beach each morning and pick up 1000s of them every day. In fact, they fed lobster to prisoners every day, until the prisoners convinced the government that it was cruel and unusual punishment to make them each the "garbage of the sea". A law was passed to protect the prisoners. Since then, now Americans pay billions a year to eat this prison food!!! HAHAHA!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller It was the same in New Zealand except we have crayfish, and I remember walking around the coast turning over rocks and getting an abundance of anything you wanted!!
Oh dear, obviously the old timers had to be super buisy at old years eve / day, to have done all that till church started! Thank you for sharing!
😂 yup
Thanks!
Thank you so much! You are so kind 💜
Just love these videos hope you and your family had a good Christmas and have a happy New year can't wait till the next one have a blessed Monday night ❤️
Thank you Diane, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Great story, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Soon be time to soak the beans...
Thank you, yes, almost time to soak!
Hopp in’ John is absolutely a new years MUST!! No need to tempt fate!!🤪
Hey buddy hope you and your family had a great Christmas
And have a great and healthy new year
Dee 💯🏴✝️
Thank you Dee! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Black eyed peas and collard greens ... yum!!
Will pass on the pennies in the potato!!
😂
My Granny was superstitious & so am I & Thanks TAS🖤
Happy New Years Lana!
Thank you so much JD, looks like I’m gonna have a lot to do before New Year’s Day.
Lots of preparation for the new year
We called the first guest -first footing. And my dad wouldn’t let the first person be anything but a dark haired male and they had to be bringing a loaf of bread or a plain cake. I love hearing about these traditions
wow!
My southern mother inlaw used to make pork black eyed peas colored greens cabbage with corn bread every new year Eve to bring in the new year
great memories
I can eat black eyed peas three meals a day. My wife fixes me cornbread and I dive in mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
THE BEST! ❤️
🤤
I’m not superstitious I just don’t like taking chances
right on!
I’m 64 years old and when my siblings and I were younger my mom would make us eat at least a spoonful of black eyed peas on new years. The only other one I know was never wash on New Year’s Day or you would be washing for the dead. I still eat black eyed peas on New Year’s Day but I like them!!!
Don’t wash on Christmas too
I always have black eye peas greens and ham on new years day all my life
Good eatin
We always eat Hoppin John’s that has black eyed peas, greens, cornbread and pork.
Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
That’s good eatin’
Thank you so much. I will tell others the story of the black eyed peas.
Happy New Years
Can you share a traditional recipe for black-eyed peas and collard greens?
I’ll ask my wife
Get a bag of dry black eyes and follow the directions on the side of the bag, sort for broken peas, any debris that may have gotten by the processing process etc. Soak your peas overnight as opposed to the quick soak method. Once your peas are ready for heat, start your pot out with a ham bone, ham hock, or my preference...diced up fat back...or for the city folk....salt pork... and a bit of veggie oil and render your hock or fat back, sweating the meat till it gives up it's wonderful pork fat. Add your peas, water etc and as per your bag directions, 6-8 cups of water and bring the peas and fat back loveliness to a boil, and then reduce heat and simmer per your directions. Once they become tender, season to taste. Some folks add a lil sugar along with salt and pepper. Big pot, alot of water, dont overcook to mush but don't undercook either. Collard greens are my favorite! If my fingers weren't tired, i would have included a recipe for them but generally speaking, its almost like cooking the peas...fresh washed greens, strip most of the stem, rip the leaves into no special length or width, just rip them up like a piece of notebook paper. Big pot, render a hock or fat back add greens, water, enough to cover greens, salt, pepper and simmer the greens for a couple hours on the stove top.... 😋 mmmm, im getting hungry. Make sure you include corn bread, cause eating black eye peas and collard greens without cornbread is against the law in the south! Enjoy!
Sounds like a lot of work for the women folk
I am thinking what I should respond with, but I know better then to say it out loud Ma'am.
@@bryanbennett972 Careful Bryan. Just kidding, but right. A low-key way to get some house work done. I respect people's superpowers,
and how they view the world is endlessly fascinating. Keep up the god work.
Very interesting video
Thank you sir
Most of these,I’ve never known about
Yes sir
Im scottish, we still do the spring clean on hogmanay (new years eve)
that's cool!
yea, after seeing the photos of those people, i can see all those precautions really worked well! it is always better to rely on God than on "luck" because there is no such thing as luck! luck is for the devil's crowd, not for Gods people! sorry but that is the way it is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
😂
My mom's family came from Kentucky
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I eat black eye peas every new years for good luck
👍
My grandma on my dad's side was very superstitious if you got a new pair of shoes even if they're still in the box you don't put them on the table or bed same with hats and don't let a black cat cross your path I remember riding in the back seat and the car.it swerving and my dad said what the heck(he#@) she nicknamed him Butch she said Butch there was a black cat and I'm not about to let that thing cross my path or this car with me in it 😆 he said you could've made us wreck.. she said yeah but we didn't.. and if you find a penny and it's not heads up don't pick it up. But this was year round. I do remember black eyes peas but that's all I can remember
Thanks for sharing my friend
😊
Hi Tammy!
Im scottish, we still do the spring clean on hogmanay (new years eve)