What do you "have" to eat on New Year's Day?
 

In our family is has been required for generations that on New Year's Day you must eat sauerkraut. For good luck in the New Year, ya know :)

So we're having Reuben Sandwiches for supper tonight.

How about the rest of you? Any traditions in your group? Do you adhere to them?

Can I come over???

:)

unfortunately, I HAVE to eat my own cooking!!! lol!!! jk

we have no traditions here. But I think I will make shredded beef tacos! Mmm! Refried beans and all the fixins!

Can I come over after I leave Margies' place?

:)

Black eyed peas and hog jaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course this is a "luck for the year" thing, but I don't believe in luck so I just pile it all on top of cornbread and go to town.

:thebunny

u r funny!!!

Blackeyed peas and cornbread.

We just ate leftovers! Turkey, meatloaf, rice, salad is what I ate there were a few other choices...and pudding for desert. Everything tasted so good.

Bou, that Reuben sandwich sounds good...just a little far away to go get one...

Food, I generally eat food on New Years Day!:hmmm

For supper tonight I'm cooking Pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, blackeyed peas & cornbread.... not that I think we have to eat it on New Year's Day, it's just what hubby wanted for supper.

greens for money
blackeyed peas for luck

We're having Prime Rib at my brother's house...Reg and his family will be there...:star

Ronzo, hurry! I'd love to have you here for supper. We eat at 6:00. See you then. :)

If you get to come to my house for supper, then I get to hitch a ride with you when you move on to Lady Choco's for the second course. Deal?

Sis. Alvear, we promise to eat enough for you too. Hope you enjoy it while we eat by proxy. LOL

Actually, that spread you put on the other day looked might good!!! We all should have come to your place for that one!

Just think, one day we'll all share together in the marriage supper of the Lamb. You think there will be Reuben Sandwiches and Shredded Beef Tacos? I hope so! hehehe

why is this? are you German?

I wanted ham, I'm getting turkey.

I got up at 10:00 and made fresh Salmon Pate. Kristin is going to make a corned beef and blackeyed peas this afternoon.

ummm... can't you throw your weight around a little??

I am hoping for Rack of Lamb!

Around here, it's blackeyed peas, cabbage and cornbread! Along with a lot of other good stuff, thank God!

well we eat out everyday
sometimes get takeout.

I'm trying to think of where we'll go today- i was thinking olive garden maybe

Actually, this tradition came down thru the Stuckey line in our family. They came from Alsace Lorraine, France. But that area was at different times in history under either France, Switzerland or Germany. So who knows? And it's very possible (even likely) that the Stuckeys actually migrated to the area from Switzerland a few generations prior.

My grandma always said of my grandfather (the Stuckey guy) that he was "German and Dutch and not worth much".

I found out how 2/3rds of that was true when I began doing our genealogy.

Yea,most of us are not pure anything. I hear people say" he is a pure German". I kinda doubt it especially if one has been in America for a few generations

I don't know that I am "pure"... but I know my people moved from Germany to Switzerland for a couple generations and then to America as a part of William Penn's experiment. I do know they were all German/Swiss for the past 15 generations. (Not that i have any great pride in this)

That is soooooooo true!!

Another thing I've learned doing genealogy is that, if your family has been here since the early days of our country, there is a high percentage of possibility that you are not completely one race either. There was alot of bad stuff going on between slave owners and slaves (NONE of us should be proud of that). There was also a good lot of inter-marriage and inter-other-stuff between the American Indians and those of non-Indian descent. Add to that all of the other inter-racial relationships that went on down thru the generations.

Makes me amazed that we even bother to put a "race" box on forms anymore.

I don't mean for this to become something to argue over. Just stating a bit of what I've learned over the years :)

Pork tenderloin, blackeyed peas, cabbage & cornbread!

Well in your case I would agree, you all are pure breds lol
you Amish folk didn't mix seed with the rest of us heathan Gentiles haha!

and that's why the majority of the african Americans are much lighter then true africans from Africa.
I've noticed a lot of white caucasion people from Oklahoma have high cheek bones - they've mixed a lot with the native indians

I had organic flax waffles for b'fast and just finished coconut crusted chicken tenderloins sammich with provolone cheese on rye.

Not sure what I'll have for supper. Probably leftover organic whole wheat spaghetti with lamb meatballs and sauce.

Where's the BARF BAG????????????????????????

Yum! What time is dinner??:popcorn2

how much do you weigh Ron

Can you keep a secret?:christmoose

That's true. If your ancestors stayed within the Amish or Mennonite culture for all those generations, you are probably one of a handful of groups in this country that can lay claim to being 'pure bred'.

Unfortunately, even within those groups, there are some who strayed. In my case, the Stuckeys would have been 'pure' until my great grandmother. At that point, she chose to walk away from her Amish/Mennonite upbringing and marry outside of her church.

On the other side of my family (my mother's side), her great grandparents were plantation owners in the south prior to and during the Civil War. They were also slave owners (a fact I hate, but can't change). The heritage of that family line is primarily Irish, but the entire family tends to be pretty dark skinned. I can't prove it, but my guess would be that there was probably some other stuff going on back then that I would be pretty ashamed of (because it would say to me that everyone was not necessarily being treated like the human beings that they should have been).

In another line of my family, my great great grandmother was pure blood Indian (from the Buffalo, New York area). Again, so much for "pure". :)

In the end, we are who we are. And God loves us all the same. But it's interesting to what kind of a mix we are.

NO! :penguin:penguin:penguin

Ah honesty, good.

I use to way 220 a few months ago, last I checked at the Doctors office I was 212!

We gotta a mennonite community about 20 miles from where i live in a farming community. They have inner married so much that many of their kids have one eye looking east and the other looking west :christmoose

and your height???

Sheesh, are you doing a dossier on me??


6'0

Oh then you're not doing too badly. maybe Drop 15 lbs ?

Why thank you Dr Thad!