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What Myths were we told when we were Children......
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: tampatalon on December 24, 2007, 12:27:32 pm ---I almost fergot this very important one. If a bird flies into yer window glass someone you know will die. If a bird falls down yer chimney lookout, someone in the house is gonna die.
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I hate the dying superstitions. I never heard those about the birds. I have heard that if a knife falls into the floor, point down (ie, sticking in the floor), someone will die.
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tampatalon:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 24, 2007, 04:16:11 pm ---I hate the dying superstitions. I never heard those about the birds. I have heard that if a knife falls into the floor, point down (ie, sticking in the floor), someone will die.
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The knife is a new one on me.
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delalluvia:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on December 24, 2007, 01:03:11 pm ---Here in western NC it is black-eyed peas, hog jowls, collard greens and pork roast on New Years Day. Each stands for something and I can't remember what stands for what, but Shasta here is your problem. The collard greens mean money so if you haven't been having those that is why you are not rich with money. Of course, I have had them every year I have been alive and I haven't found the money yet either :) I've never heard of the rice, beans or kraut though
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Same in Texas, except for the pork roast and we add cornbread. But I'm not fond of jowls or collard greens or tripe, so I just get sausage. I bought my cans of black-eye peas six weeks ago. Because while you can always find cornbread mix and sausages, the stores sometimes run out of black-eye peas. :)
Shasta542:
Hog jowl, fried to a crispy crunch, is delicious! It probably clogs up an artery as soon as you swallow it, but it is still delicious.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 24, 2007, 05:14:32 pm ---Same in Texas, except for the pork roast and we add cornbread. But I'm not fond of jowls or collard greens or tripe, so I just get sausage. I bought my cans of black-eye peas six weeks ago. Because while you can always find cornbread mix and sausages, the stores sometimes run out of black-eye peas. :)
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I forgot the cornbread. Yes, we have the cornbread here too. It sounds like Texas and North Carolina have similar New Years Day traditions :) And sometimes people put what they call chitlins in the cornbread.
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