[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 339

[EvenCirce713 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 7228

In a message dated 12/18/00 12:06:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPforGrownups at egroups.com writes:

<< My wife's family in NC, also Scotch/Irish, includes collard greens  
 and field peas (a.k.a. blackeyed peas) in their Christmas "dinner".  >>
We do this for New Year's in SC. It is a sort of good luck tradition. The 
gres denoting greenbacks, lots of them in the coming year, and the back eyes 
peas are for the "pocket change". By New Year's Eve day, you'l find it hard 
to find a collard in any form , fresh frozen or canned, in a store.
~ Circe