Tradition: How Wide Spread !

tsb · Post by **tsb** » Sun. Jan. 01, 2012 8:18 pm

Jan 1 dinner Pork, kraut, smashed taters.
Is this a local tradition or regional ?

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Sun. Jan. 01, 2012 8:22 pm

It's popular here in Ohio.

MURDOC1 · Post by **MURDOC1** » Sun. Jan. 01, 2012 9:24 pm

Just finished up eating the same, had Dad over too!!!

mkline · Post by **mkline** » Sun. Jan. 01, 2012 10:25 pm

We had some after midnight and ate on it today too.I put some dogs in with it for some extra snackin'

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Mike

SteveZee · Post by **SteveZee** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 9:23 am

Never heard of that one? That a German or Polish thing?

I made up a big ole andouille and shrimp gumbo. Dogged out on that for a couple days.

samhill · Post by **samhill** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 9:30 am

Had the same here, most all of Western Pa. that I know of pork, kraut, mashed taters & throw some kielbasi in as well, allways had dogs when we had kids around.

GA cracker · Post by **GA cracker** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 9:40 am

First I ever heard of pork and kruat. We had turnips cooked with hamhocks, black eyed peas, cornbread, picnic ham.
Cracker

AA130FIREMAN · Post by **AA130FIREMAN** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 10:00 am

tsb wrote:Jan 1 dinner Pork, kraut, smashed taters.
Is this a local tradition or regional ?

Tradition for me, I DO NOT eat eggs on new years day. Does anyone know the symbolism behind eating pork ?

samhill · Post by **samhill** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 10:11 am

I found this to be pretty interesting. http://www.snopes.com/holidays/newyears/beliefs.asp

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 10:14 am

No, but I know the Native American symbolism about eating pork!

PIG EATERS Although, I do indulge myself with sausage & scrapple.

AA130FIREMAN · Post by **AA130FIREMAN** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 12:50 pm

freetown fred wrote:No, but I know the Native American symbolism about eating pork! PIG EATERS Although, I do indulge myself with sausage & scrapple.

Fred, why don't native americans eat pork ? It's has hooved feet just as a deer, buffalo

The deal with eating pork is the pig roots forward to eat, and a chicken just scratches around, so it's good luck to root forward into the new year by eating pork, and the kraut is just good with pork. Maybee we should eat fish, I never saw one swim backwards, only belly up

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 1:21 pm

All the criters you mentioned are grazers. Wild pigs eat anything from rotten carcasses,to excrement (*censored*). That belly up fish wasn't swimming backwards silly guy, it was DEAD goin with the current.

AA130FIREMAN · Post by **AA130FIREMAN** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 5:49 pm

freetown fred wrote: Wild pigs eat anything from rotten carcasses,to excrement (*censored*).

Is that what makes ummm so tasteeStill, is it the fact that native americans will only eat grazers, not scavengers ? Come to think of it, I remember seing a show on the discovery channel with the swamp people in the florida everglades, and the native americans were going to have a ferril pig roast. Is it just the northern folk are high class ?

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 5:56 pm

YUP--today is a whole different game with hog farms & all, but, I know that out on the Rosebud Reservation in S.Dakota, they would eat a horse before a pig.I can't speak for the Seminole, but they are a whole strange story anyway, many run away slaves ended up in the everglades intermingling. A lot of the Seminole were Natives that had been shunned by thier own tribes. Who knows??? I'm pretty familiar with the Woodland & Plains Tribes.

AA130FIREMAN wrote:
freetown fred wrote: Wild pigs eat anything from rotten carcasses,to excrement (*censored*).
Is that what makes ummm so tasteeStill, is it the fact that native americans will only eat grazers, not scavengers ?

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Fri. Jan. 06, 2012 6:05 pm

I had sloppy DOE!

With potato salad.

Tradition: How Wide Spread !

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