I
love the New Year's day tradition of eating beans and greens to bring
luck and prosperity. This video was posted a few years back, and
features black-eyed peas, and not one, but three kinds of pork. How can
that not bring good fortune?This is a very old tradition, and I don't mean colonial America old, I mean really, really old. There are records of black-eyed peas being eaten for good luck on New Year's Day all the way back to ancient Babylonia. It must have worked, because look at all the good fortune that has befallen the middle east since then. Okay, maybe that's not the best example.