Black eyed peas , collard greens, and fish was always our New Year’s meal. This is the first year that I don’t have neither grandmothers but I’m definitely going to keep the tradition going
My mom would tell us on New Year Day to make sure a man comes thru your 🚪 first or a telephone call. If a woman is your first visitor, you will have bad luck all year.
Not necessarily ignored but colonized and ingredients for these are going through the roof ever since 'them folks' had 'discovered' these traditional foods
I believe many cultures take the same foods and add their own twists. That’s the greatness with aligning food to your culture l think. In Louisiana l’m sure black eye peas, collards are cooked differently depending on the culture. The Gullah, the Cajuns, and the Creoles will cook these foods differently and yet, the significance will mean the same.
Every chance you get speak it. We have came TOO FAR to give up now. If they are comfortable with this living make them uncomfortable. Give them scriptures. Like Deuteronomy 7:6
Yes, my family enjoyed both not because we thought they would bring financial wealth...they didn't however, they brought us together more than once a year. I still remember a house full of family enjoying a meal together. That was the wealth of togetherness. The really sad thing is that most don't know that our new year actually begins around April, in the spring when everything is growing and blooming, not in January when most vegetation is dying, leaves have fallen off the trees and flowers are no longer blooming everything is at rest until the true new year begins in April. We have been feed so many lies from those who wanted to keep us in a deep sleep. Happy family gatherings to all. Sending positive energy to all. Be safe, enjoy, and take care.
My late grandmother in law only allowed a man to come into her house first on New Year’s Day. Every year my FIL would go over to ensure a man walked in first. Miss her dearly
We just purchased all of our items for our New Year's Day celebration. Collard greens, black eyed peas, and preparing cornbread. We are looking forward to it.🥂🍾❤
My husband and I are celebrating New Year’s Day with a home cooked meal representing our Black American heritage. We prepared collard greens with smoked turkey, black eye peas, corn bread and fried catfish. We love celebrating our culture!❤
That's awesome. Going threw these comments and looks like I'm from the only black family that doesn't cook food on new year's. Didn't realize it was that big of a tradition for people.
@@TheJrockfreak I still cook but with more of a lifestyle change in the diet. So I don't eat pork at all anymore (substituting instead with smoked turkey wings or legs)and I won't have three starches in one meal. So I'll eliminate the rice but keep the cornbread since the Blackeyed Peas are a starch as well. Fresh never canned because if you read the ingredients on the back of the can they have pork in them, smh.
I hope those New Year’s Day dishes brought prosperity to anyone who prepared and ate it. My parents cooked all those same foods when I was as growing up. Thank you for the Black history on New Year’s Day traditional foods. I enjoyed your video. 👍🏾👏🏽👏🏽
I’m mostly Scots/Irish American and we’ve always eaten black eyed peas on new year’s days for as long as as I can remember. Usually with cornbread .pork,bacon & Tabasco sauce. I’m in the southern USA here in Arkansas.
You have such a lovely deep baritone speaking voice. You would do excellent if you did audio books or even spoken word poetry. Thank you for sharing your information with us. 🙏🏾 (Respect to you and your entire family for all your dedication, and hard work)
Every new year we eat black eye peas, with greens, yams, and cornbread and roast chicken or baked ham. I mix collard greens with mustard greens, kale, and ham hocks or trimmings from the ham.
You not supposed to eat chicken or poultry for New years because you will be 'scratching' all year(related to the claws of the bird)....and scratching for cash that is.
My parents taught all of their children and Aunt & Uncle and my Grandmother. My birthday is Dec 31st and they always had a celebration with all those foods!
There were Indigenous dark people here originally who were not from Africa who cultivated and grew crops many thousands of years before Europeans came.
To me FOOD IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ON THE FIRST DAY OF YEAR IT'S GOD'S WORD THAT IMPORTANT TO ME!!!! -- THAT'S HOW I STARE EVERDAY WITH GOD'S WORD SO YOU KNOW I STARE NEW YEAR WITH GOD'S WORD!!! -- I CAN JUST EAT WHATEVER IT DOESN'T MATTER AS LONG AS IT'S HEALTHY FOR ME!!!
New Year's Food Traditions: Many people consider certain foods to be fortuitous for the New Year, which ties those practices to both, Janus and the pagan goddess, Fortuna (Lady Luck). Black-eyed peas represent The Eyes of Janus, (represented with two faces looking in opposite directions to illustrate his supposed power of seeing both past and future) looking back to the past and ahead to the future. And on New Year's Day, the traditional Southern spread consists of black-eyed peas, cornbread and collard greens (symbols for good fortune of wealth-coins and green folding money, respectively), ham or pork (for prosperity), and yellow cornbread (represents gold).
Thank you for sharing ❤ It’s funny I made this meal coming into the “new year”. I just felt called to… And to all of the weirdos that watched the video just to shit on it, I hope you have the year you deserve. Stay blessed ✌🏾✨
Traditional African American New Year's Day meal....Black eyed peas; Collard Greens; Chitterlings; Cornbread or Cornbread dressing. Good eating fr fr!!!
Another thing they didn't teach you about your history is that "New Years Day" was also known as “Hiring Day” or “Heartbreak Day,” which was the day many of our ancestors ended up on the auctioneer’s block. And btw, only pagans celebrate the New Year in the winter.
WoW, I never knew that. I guess that is why my grandma always told us to say goodbye and say we love each other to love ones. You don't know if you might never see them again. We would laugh. We will see each other again.
@@tallglasscocoa6105 Deuteronomy 28:15-69 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Goodness I been saying this for a while now. How is it a new year and it’s still soo cold that makes no sense. You would think it would be a new year when the weather changes idk just my thoughts.
Exactly… the Spring Equinox in March is the REAL new year which makes more sense. The Gregorian calendar changed the order of the months having January being the first month instead of March. Ever wonder why October is the 10th month but OCT means 8. Same with December; DEC means 10 but it’s the 12th month……
And growing up my mother always said that we couldn't let Christmas catch up with New Year's so we always had to take our Christmas decorations and the Christmas tree down on December 30th. So New Year's don't catch up with Christmas or Christmas doesn't catch up with the new year.
Put a little less sad-voice in it. You sound almost heartbroke at times telling it lol Talking about good grub like this would auto-cheer me up. Just saying. 🤷♂️🍲
I agreed with you up until you started talking about the pig !!! 😮 Reason being. The people of the Americas are Hebrew !!!!! And. The Most High Creator Yahweh told Us Not to eat pork. Period ❤
Well in that case, you should recognize that most holydays, including New Year's are rooted in Idolatry. New Year's Food Traditions: Many people consider certain foods to be fortuitous for the New Year, which ties those practices to both, the pagan god Janus and the pagan goddess, Fortuna (Lady Luck). Black-eyed peas represent The Eyes of Janus, (represented with two faces looking in opposite directions to illustrate his supposed power of seeing both past and future) looking back to the past and ahead to the future. And on New Year's Day, the traditional Southern spread consists of black-eyed peas, cornbread and collard greens (symbols for good fortune of wealth-coins and green folding money, respectively), ham or pork (for prosperity, ie. "High On The Hog"), and yellow cornbread (represents gold). Several cultures believe that eating ring-shaped foods on New Year's, represents coming full circle. i.e. Round cakes and cookies, or a glutinous bag Of New Year's Day Bagels, to cure your New Year's Eve celebration hangover with. Ring out the OLD Year, Ring in the NEW! According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 'bagel' derives from the transliteration of the Yiddish 'beygl', which came from the Middle High German 'böugel' or ring, which itself came from 'bouc' (ring) and el (god); in Old High German, similar to the Old English bēag "ring" and būgan "to bend, bow". Variations: Montreal-style bagel, pizza bagel, bagel toast Created by: Jewish communities of Poland Associated national cuisine: Jewish, Polish, American, Canadian, and Israeli Place of origin: Poland Bagel 6) DRESSED TO THE NINES - "Dressing to the nines" (in honor of Janus, because "Janus sees you crossing") The phrase descends from the Old English saying “Dressed to the eyes,” (referring to The Eyes of the two-faced god, Janus - beholding the past, while simultaneously beholding the future). The phrase in Old English, was written as “Dressed to the eyne.” Eyne = Plural of eye; - now obsolete, or used only in poetry. "With such a plaintive gaze their eyne. Are fastened upwardly on mine." Over time, the Word "eyne" was transliterated to "nine". The first example of the use of the phrase to be found in print is in Samuel Fallows' The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, 1835. In his entry for the phrase 'to the nines' Fallows gives the example 'dressed up to the nines' and suggests that it "may perhaps" be derived from 'to thine eynes' - to thy eyes.
Why in beginning segment do you speak in past tense? You telling what 'used to be' when it's still celebrated and practiced + not monocultural; I've eat/celebrated it. Lotta Southern Whitefolk do.
But , he's not talking about or to White folks, He's Speaking to Black People, Is that a Crime ⁉️ For Black People to talk between themselves without other people being included,
@maryh9569 ma'am as a ✡️ I understand the need of cultural awareness. Blackfolk absolutely is endowed with right of self-determination that I'd even say ain't practiced enough. I however included that one part to say the practice in question ain't a black-exclusive tradition.
Black eyed peas , collard greens, and fish was always our New Year’s meal. This is the first year that I don’t have neither grandmothers but I’m definitely going to keep the tradition going
@fattycake3056 Never knew or heard about fish being part. What fish did your family celebrate? We just did the BEP, CB, CG, and "maybe " a pork chop 😀
@fattycake3056 actually never mind. We on VERY separate levels. Stay UP. Word.
Knowing our history is important, but it’s sadly being ignored.
My mom would tell us on New Year Day to make sure a man comes thru your 🚪 first or a telephone call. If a woman is your first visitor, you will have bad luck all year.
Not necessarily ignored but colonized and ingredients for these are going through the roof ever since 'them folks' had 'discovered' these traditional foods
I believe many cultures take the same foods and add their own twists. That’s the greatness with aligning food to your culture l think. In Louisiana l’m sure black eye peas, collards are cooked differently depending on the culture. The Gullah, the Cajuns, and the Creoles will cook these foods differently and yet, the significance will mean the same.
Black folks can’t do nothing but blame themselves. Every other community passes their own history and culture down but Black Americans…
Every chance you get speak it. We have came TOO FAR to give up now. If they are comfortable with this living make them uncomfortable. Give them scriptures. Like Deuteronomy 7:6
Yes, my family enjoyed both not because we thought they would bring financial wealth...they didn't however, they brought us together more than once a year. I still remember a house full of family enjoying a meal together. That was the wealth of togetherness. The really sad thing is that most don't know that our new year actually begins around April, in the spring when everything is growing and blooming, not in January when most vegetation is dying, leaves have fallen off the trees and flowers are no longer blooming everything is at rest until the true new year begins in April. We have been feed so many lies from those who wanted to keep us in a deep sleep. Happy family gatherings to all. Sending positive energy to all. Be safe, enjoy, and take care.
so true, unfortunately people are still with these “TRADITIONS “ of men/elders. Lord help us all 🙏🏾🐑
My late grandmother in law only allowed a man to come into her house first on New Year’s Day. Every year my FIL would go over to ensure a man walked in first. Miss her dearly
Yeas My Mom and I do this..
@@WellMichele Right. No telephone calls either unless it was a man calling to wish Happy New Year.
My father would go outside of the door of our apartment at 12:01am, and walk back in 😂. Many years later, I do this at my house.
Why a man?
@anitadelacruz4897 Ask your Southern Great Grandmother/Grandfather.
My Grandmother: Washing clothes on New Years Day "was" to be done with caution, and NOT suggested. You might "wash someone out of your life".
Yup
💯 we get all of our washing done the day before or after. No washing on New Years Day.
I was taught you wash the old year out.
I've always followed this rule as well.
We just purchased all of our items for our New Year's Day celebration. Collard greens, black eyed peas, and preparing cornbread. We are looking forward to it.🥂🍾❤
I was having sushi but hey now both. I fell off my habit of cooking those things every year.😅😅❤🎉
My husband and I are celebrating New Year’s Day with a home cooked meal representing our Black American heritage. We prepared collard greens with smoked turkey, black eye peas, corn bread and fried catfish. We love celebrating our culture!❤
That's awesome. Going threw these comments and looks like I'm from the only black family that doesn't cook food on new year's. Didn't realize it was that big of a tradition for people.
@@TheJrockfreak I still cook but with more of a lifestyle change in the diet. So I don't eat pork at all anymore (substituting instead with smoked turkey wings or legs)and I won't have three starches in one meal. So I'll eliminate the rice but keep the cornbread since the Blackeyed Peas are a starch as well. Fresh never canned because if you read the ingredients on the back of the can they have pork in them, smh.
@@christiebussey1285 Oh ok, these days healthy is the way to go and yea a lot of people don't realize they have pork in them
I hope those New Year’s Day dishes brought prosperity to anyone who prepared and ate it.
My parents cooked all those same foods when I was as growing up.
Thank you for the Black history on New Year’s Day traditional foods. I enjoyed your video. 👍🏾👏🏽👏🏽
I’m mostly Scots/Irish American and we’ve always eaten black eyed peas on new year’s days for as long as as I can remember. Usually with cornbread .pork,bacon & Tabasco sauce. I’m in the southern USA here in Arkansas.
You have such a lovely deep baritone speaking voice. You would do excellent if you did audio books or even spoken word poetry. Thank you for sharing your information with us. 🙏🏾 (Respect to you and your entire family for all your dedication, and hard work)
Excellent History Lesson!
I enjoyed this because food was never a staple on New years for my family. I can't think of us ever cooking food for new years
Every new year we eat black eye peas, with greens, yams, and cornbread and roast chicken or baked ham. I mix collard greens with mustard greens, kale, and ham hocks or trimmings from the ham.
You not supposed to eat chicken or poultry for New years because you will be 'scratching' all year(related to the claws of the bird)....and scratching for cash that is.
I love collard greens mixed with other greens.
@@peacebalance8067 Really? What do you eat if you can't eat pork?
Now I know why this is so important!!! No one ever told me this story. Thank you for sharing this with us! You are amazing !!!!!
Great content as always!
In my family we also use Cabbage.
My parents taught all of their children and Aunt & Uncle and my Grandmother. My birthday is Dec 31st and they always had a celebration with all those foods!
My little girl was born on December 30, 2022. I was so mad about the hospital food 😂😂.
Yes 🙌🏾 ❤❤❤
Black eyes peas in your wallet. Is anyone familiar?
Yes... my family has been doing this as long as I can remember. My aunt was a stickler for making sure we all had them!
You put them in your wallet? Mine gave us $2 bills every New Years Day.
hahahaha...nope...that's news to me. :-)
Thank you.
Collard Greens originated in East Africa, and Specifically in Ethiopia.
Not remotely, the closest origin point we have found is near Greece, in the Mediterranean.
There were Indigenous dark people here originally who were not from Africa who cultivated and grew crops many thousands of years before Europeans came.
I hope you have a happy new year ❤
Slight correction, they originated in Northern Africa but the domesticated ones we are familiar with were cultivated in Western Africa.
To me FOOD IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ON THE FIRST DAY OF YEAR
IT'S GOD'S WORD THAT IMPORTANT TO ME!!!!
-- THAT'S HOW I STARE EVERDAY WITH GOD'S WORD SO YOU KNOW I STARE NEW YEAR WITH GOD'S WORD!!!
-- I CAN JUST EAT WHATEVER IT DOESN'T MATTER AS LONG AS IT'S HEALTHY FOR ME!!!
I love black eyed peas. I make them vegan, though. I love smoked paprika.
Thank you for sharing 😊
Can't wait to share this with my audience!
Thank you for this video I can now show my son so he can show his children and it can get passed on
I always wanted to know why we eat black eyed pea on New Years Day. Not Lima beans, Navy beans, kidney beans, or butter beans.
New Year's Food Traditions: Many people consider certain foods to be fortuitous for the New Year, which ties those practices to both, Janus and the pagan goddess, Fortuna (Lady Luck). Black-eyed peas represent The Eyes of Janus, (represented with two faces looking in opposite directions to illustrate his supposed power of seeing both past and future) looking back to the past and ahead to the future.
And on New Year's Day, the traditional Southern spread consists of black-eyed peas, cornbread and collard greens (symbols for good fortune of wealth-coins and green folding money, respectively), ham or pork (for prosperity), and yellow cornbread (represents gold).
Thank you for sharing ❤ It’s funny I made this meal coming into the “new year”. I just felt called to…
And to all of the weirdos that watched the video just to shit on it, I hope you have the year you deserve.
Stay blessed ✌🏾✨
Traditional African American New Year's Day meal....Black eyed peas; Collard Greens; Chitterlings; Cornbread or Cornbread dressing. Good eating fr fr!!!
Another thing they didn't teach you about your history is that "New Years Day" was also known as “Hiring Day” or “Heartbreak Day,” which was the day many of our ancestors ended up on the auctioneer’s block.
And btw, only pagans celebrate the New Year in the winter.
WoW, I never knew that. I guess that is why my grandma always told us to say goodbye and say we love each other to love ones. You don't know if you might never see them again. We would laugh. We will see each other again.
@@tallglasscocoa6105
Deuteronomy 28:15-69
66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Goodness I been saying this for a while now. How is it a new year and it’s still soo cold that makes no sense. You would think it would be a new year when the weather changes idk just my thoughts.
@@arethabigelow9513
Really shouldn't be a surprise at all since the whole world has been forced to follow the lead of pagans from Europe since 1492.
Exactly… the Spring Equinox in March is the REAL new year which makes more sense. The Gregorian calendar changed the order of the months having January being the first month instead of March.
Ever wonder why October is the 10th month but OCT means 8. Same with December; DEC means 10 but it’s the 12th month……
❤❤❤❤❤❤I am going to make Hoppin' John for the first time for New Year's. I had never heard of it. Thank you so much
I've never heard of it either. I'm 39 and from Chicago. My grandparents were all of course from the south.
Shalom family ❤❤❤
Mine too and my mother...
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Wasnt field peas included in this tradition
He mentions Hoppin' Jon at 6:40 from my understanding that includes field peas good eatin'
❤😊🎉💯✅️
And growing up my mother always said that we couldn't let Christmas catch up with New Year's so we always had to take our Christmas decorations and the Christmas tree down on December 30th. So New Year's don't catch up with Christmas or Christmas doesn't catch up with the new year.
Yeah WE had Corn.... BUT IT WASN'T 🟡 YELLOW DAT Corn is BAD CORN, BAD FOR OUR BODIES💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
I remember being told one was a feed corn for animals and the other corn was for human consumption.
😭 My Grandmother and Great Grandmother use to cook a Racoon for New years can somebody tell me if that's a southern thing or something 🤢
Raccoon, when roasted right, can taste like a fine beef roast.
@healinggrounds19 So this is Something from down South they also often Cooked possum anyways happy holidays
Im absolutely sure that black eyed peas are NOT from the Eastern hemisphere.
WHO is THEY ? Please let me know.....curious.....
🤣😂
Completely false information call greens did come from the British edit come over on the boats, but not through Africa
I don't like black eye peas😅
Me neither. They’re nasty
Its just a pot of food you cooked it doesn't bring you anything
Agreed! My mom went to multiple stores to get black eye peas and im like really, it’s just food.
Traditions are nice but these meanings are superstitious. Eating greens on New Years Day doesn’t guarantee one won’t be broke in April.
For nutritional purposes mostly.
Aggiungi corvo a quella lista.
What are you trying to say?. When have you heard of blacks eating crow or was that a racist statement?🤨
Put a little less sad-voice in it. You sound almost heartbroke at times telling it lol Talking about good grub like this would auto-cheer me up. Just saying. 🤷♂️🍲
Its all lies why do people believe this crap
Educate us on your perspective…
I agreed with you up until you started talking about the pig !!! 😮 Reason being. The people of the Americas are Hebrew !!!!! And. The Most High Creator Yahweh told Us Not to eat pork. Period ❤
Well in that case, you should recognize that most holydays, including New Year's are rooted in Idolatry.
New Year's Food Traditions: Many people consider certain foods to be fortuitous for the New Year, which ties those practices to both, the pagan god Janus and the pagan goddess, Fortuna (Lady Luck). Black-eyed peas represent The Eyes of Janus, (represented with two faces looking in opposite directions to illustrate his supposed power of seeing both past and future) looking back to the past and ahead to the future.
And on New Year's Day, the traditional Southern spread consists of black-eyed peas, cornbread and collard greens (symbols for good fortune of wealth-coins and green folding money, respectively), ham or pork (for prosperity, ie. "High On The Hog"), and yellow cornbread (represents gold).
Several cultures believe that eating ring-shaped foods on New Year's, represents coming full circle. i.e. Round cakes and cookies, or a glutinous bag Of New Year's Day Bagels, to cure your New Year's Eve celebration hangover with.
Ring out the OLD Year, Ring in the NEW!
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 'bagel' derives from the transliteration of the Yiddish 'beygl', which came from the Middle High German 'böugel' or ring, which itself came from 'bouc' (ring) and el (god); in Old High German, similar to the Old English bēag "ring" and būgan "to bend, bow".
Variations: Montreal-style bagel, pizza bagel, bagel toast
Created by: Jewish communities of Poland
Associated national cuisine: Jewish, Polish, American, Canadian, and Israeli
Place of origin: Poland
Bagel
6) DRESSED TO THE NINES - "Dressing to the nines" (in honor of Janus, because "Janus sees you crossing")
The phrase descends from the Old English saying “Dressed to the eyes,” (referring to The Eyes of the two-faced god, Janus - beholding the past, while simultaneously beholding the future). The phrase in Old English, was written as “Dressed to the eyne.”
Eyne = Plural of eye; - now obsolete, or used only in poetry. "With such a plaintive gaze their eyne. Are fastened upwardly on mine."
Over time, the Word "eyne" was transliterated to "nine".
The first example of the use of the phrase to be found in print is in Samuel Fallows' The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, 1835. In his entry for the phrase 'to the nines' Fallows gives the example 'dressed up to the nines' and suggests that it "may perhaps" be derived from 'to thine eynes' - to thy eyes.
I've never liked black-eyed-peas or greens of any kind.
You've never had them cooked correctly.
@drucella5581 Nope. I just don't like them, period!
@@drucella5581yeah, cause collard greens go crazy 😋
Paganism
Why in beginning segment do you speak in past tense? You telling what 'used to be' when it's still celebrated and practiced + not monocultural; I've eat/celebrated it. Lotta Southern Whitefolk do.
But , he's not talking about or to White folks, He's Speaking to Black People, Is that a Crime ⁉️ For Black People to talk between themselves without other people being included,
@maryh9569 ma'am as a ✡️ I understand the need of cultural awareness. Blackfolk absolutely is endowed with right of self-determination that I'd even say ain't practiced enough. I however included that one part to say the practice in question ain't a black-exclusive tradition.
They always want to be the center of attention 😢wp can we please have something for our self please 🙏 😊
@MultiBuck23 only attention I want is for you to read this of me telling you happy holidays friend
Happy holidays to you and your family
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