Everyone is right here plus a few more.............

I grew up with kraut and pork cooked with a silver dollar in it and for years I kept one just for that purpose. After it disapppeared I tried 4 silver quaters and eventually just said, "Ta' hell with it," and skipped the coinage altogether.

When I lived in the south at various times the two main ones I added were turnip greens and blackeyed peas and added Hoppin' John a bit later. Now our New Year's day includes all of that and also Crab Cakes which Connie's family from the Chesapeake area always had. Karen and I were happy to add that one!   So we eat like hogs and hope something or another brings luck and money and all of that.

I'm not sure it works though.................We barely have 2 nickels to rub together and buying food for New Year's is getting pretty damn costly! But we have a home and all that entails so maybe it does work.

Then again, I have had more than my share of health problems in the past 12 years so I'm not sure either about the health thing working. But I tell ya'...... I have had some damn serious illnesses and I'm still alive.....so maybe it does.

I dunno' which way it goes but as long as I'm still going through it all with my best friend for a partner, well, hell............It doesn't get any better than that does it? (;<))

Spaw