Eat This Now- Good Luck Food

Keith and I got to talking about New Year's Eve traditions one day on the way to the track. He said that they always ate black-eyed peas for good luck. I had never heard of that, but I had heard of eating (or trying to eat) 12 grapes, 1 for each ding of the clock at midnight. Turns out, there are other food myths... like not eating lobster (because they move backwards) and eating pork (because pigs eat moving forward) and sweets of all descriptions (circular ones are the best). In fact, there are a whole bunch of lucky foods, some of which are even pretty healthy!

Other traditions include toasting and a midnight kiss. In terms of luck, apparently you should wear old clothes and hope the wind is blowing from the south.