Did Everyone Have Their Sauerkraut Today?

[Ross6860]

Originally Posted by ford38v8

Never heard of sauerkraut on New Years Day, but out here we eat that with garlic sausage.
Is collards and hog jowls an actual edible food?
I bet you guys just say you eat that stuff to prove you're from the South!

Never ate this stuff 'till I married a good Southern gal. It's wonderful.

Originally Posted by 37 Coupe

...One thing my mom told me ,and she was of German parents, was to stay away from eating chicken on New Years day as the chicken scratches backwords.. Pork and saurkraut for going forward with good luck. All who ate chicken yesterday will probably have setbacks this year on their flathead projects,just sayin.

This is the story my mom told me (100% Polish). It appears to be Middle European (German, Polish, Czek, Yugo, etc.), obviously not Jewish or Muslim.

Pigs are fat, chickens scratch in the ground. Eat pork and saurkraut and be fat and rich all year. Eat chicken and you'll scratch to get by.

This is about the only old wives tale or superstition I follow. It has worked for me

[jimalabam]

Cushman Man: You are spot on...

[4tl8ford]

Kraut & Pork is primarily a Pennsylvania thing from the PA Dutch folks - Thank God they got the spread minimized