Why Southerners Eat Black-Eyed Peas and Greens for Luck on New Year’s Day

And Where Did This Tradition Actually Come From?

If you are native to the South, particularly in Texas like myself, it is likely that at some point in your life you have brought in the New Year with a mighty helping of black-eyed peas.

Why? For wealth, of course.

Some Texans believe that if you eat poor on New Year’s Day, you’ll be rich the rest of the year. For those who aren’t natives but still think they could use a…