When Karen and I decided to add in all the regional things from places we'd lived, it became apparent that the New Year foods were great "flushers".....If you look at my list above (kraut, black-eye peas, greens, pork, crab), every one of them "digests" well, so to speak. Maybe this was the real thought behind them......you know, start the new year clean, or at least cleaned out. I guarantee that if you eat all of them you'll be clean as a whistle.....I suggest you don't go to work on the 2nd as another tradition.

Spaw