New Year's Cultural Traditions

[Aeson]

My family takes part in a southern US tradition of eating hog jowls, black eyed peas, greens, and cornbread.
Each is to symbolize something.
Hog jowls= wealth and prosperity
Black eyed peas= coins
Greens= paper money
Cornbread= gold
I think you see a theme here.

What do you do where you are or come from? Is it hard to follow your traditions if you live somewhere else?

Happy New Year!!!

 

[Morrus]

I have never seen any of that food!

We used to go out, party, etc. on NYE. These days we have friends over, order a ton of takeaway food, drink lots of alcohol and just hang out until everybody is tired. Tonight I think it's gonna be 4 large pizzas, and one of each side they do, in a weird pizza-sides-tapas kinda thing.

 

[Tonguez]

Glazed ham

Boil a pigs head to make brawn

Fall asleep around 10 then wake up around 12.30 and say "did I miss it again?"

Make my annual "I havent seen you since last year" joke

 

[Umbran]

Stepping away from food, my folks brought a tradition from the old country.

Get yourself a metal with a low melting point - tin works well. So does lead, but be aware that it is pretty toxic.
Melt a sample of it down.
Quickly dump the molten metal in a big bucket of water. It will solidify into weird shapes.
Shine a projector light on the wall. Hold up the metal blob in the light, and look at its shadow. Turn the blob around and around until the shadow looks like something to you - what you see in the shadow will be relevant to your future in the new year.

 

[Tonguez]

Stepping away from food, my folks brought a tradition from the old country.

Get yourself a metal with a low melting point - tin works well. So does lead, but be aware that it is pretty toxic.
Melt a sample of it down.
Quickly dump the molten metal in a big bucket of water. It will solidify into weird shapes.
Shine a projector light on the wall. Hold up the metal blob in the light, and look at its shadow. Turn the blob around and around until the shadow looks like something to you - what you see in the shadow will be relevant to your future in the new year.

Can I ask which old country?

 

[Aeson]

Can I ask which old country?

You beat me to it.

 

[jian]

Well, for many years from my childhood onwards we had saehae bogil, the Korean tradition of bowing to your parents on New Year’s Day and being given money. As we got older my dad insisted on traditional precedence. So my older brother went first, then me, then my sister-in-law, then my wife. At that point we noped out and never went back. It sounds like lots of Koreans have done the same.

 

[briggart]

A common New Year food in Italy is lentils, symbolizing coins. I've heard it is a tradition that goes back to Roman times.

 

[Celebrim]

My family takes part in a southern US tradition of eating hog jowls, black eyed peas, greens, and cornbread.
Each is to symbolize something.
Hog jowls= wealth and prosperity
Black eyed peas= coins
Greens= paper money
Cornbread= gold
I think you see a theme here.

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What do you do where you are or come from? Is it hard to follow your traditions if you live somewhere else?

Happy New Year!!!

That's some might fine looking eats. I'll be eating something similar tomorrow. Usually, we end up making a Hoppin' John or a Jollop Rice because my family (well one side of it) is Cajun and also "Geuax Tigers!" but I think we'll probably just go back to basics this year.