They say greens represent paper money. Black eyed peas represent pennies and pork is health and anticipation of good things to come because a pig is portly and always roots forward. Corn bread represents gold. I grew up on Strawberry Hill where Povitica bread is a traditional holiday bread so I have some of that too.
They say during the Civil War, Sherman's army burned everything that they thought would sustain the rebels. They left black eyed peas because they thought they were animal food, not fit for humans. Southerns considered themselves lucky to have them to eat.
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