"Start your new year off right with our favorite southern tradition, eating black eye peas and greens for good luck. While we can’t meet in person this year we must keep up the tradition, so come by the Feed the People community kitchen to get vegan, Black eyed peas, greens and cornbread.
New year food folk-lore
* Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day brings good luck in the new year.
* For the best chance of luck every day in the new year, eat 365 black-eyed peas on New Year's Day.
* When served with greens (collards, mustard or turnip), black-eyed peas represent coins and greens represent paper money.
* Cornbread, often served with black-eyed peas and greens, represents gold.
* Black-eyed peas eaten with stewed tomatoes represent wealth and health.
* In Hoppin' John, each pea represents a coin, and a whole serving equals prosperity.
Source: Various Internet sites" (Promo Copy)