Food folklore suggests that New Year's celebrations should include pork and sauerkraut to ensure good luck in the coming year.
In the American South, eating black-eyed peas and greens (such as collards) on New Year's Day is considered good luck: the peas symbolize coins and the greens symbolize paper money. They are a key ingredient in Hoppin' John (peas, rice and pork) and part of African-American "soul food." A German New Year's tradition is to eat herring at the stroke of midnight to bring good luck for the New Year. In Austria, suckling pig is the traditional dinner for New Year's Day and is said to symbolize good luck. Often the New Year's table also is decorated with miniature pigs made of marzipan, maple sugar or chocolate. Courtesy of FoodReference.com.
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