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Post by Greg C. on Dec 28, 2006 10:24:17 GMT -5
What are your new Year's Eve traditions? me and my family just stay home and eat some of those frozen appetizers and watch re-runs of the tonight show with johnny carson until 11:30 then we watch dick clark's show if it is still on this year.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 28, 2006 18:08:11 GMT -5
A bit of Scotch whisky, some ritz crackers with pepperoni and sharp cheddar cheese...
And hopefully i can stay awake till midnight as well..
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Post by neferetus on Dec 28, 2006 21:01:59 GMT -5
Sounds good, Bromhead. I will probably not last until midnight, but the firecrackers and gunshots will likely wake me up then.
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 28, 2006 21:53:37 GMT -5
from celebrations or drive-bys?
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Post by TexasMac on Dec 29, 2006 11:06:33 GMT -5
Generally, in Texas, tomales are the good-luck food atr New Year's. Also, for the South in general, black-eyed peas are eaten for good luck.
If you hadn't guessed by now, I am into my Scottish heritage big time. In Scotland, New Years is also called Hogmanay, and according to old tradition, Hogmanay was more of a celebrating time than Christmas. In Scotland, there is also a tradition called, "first-footing," in which a dark-haired person is to be the first to cross the threshhold of your house in the new year in order to bring good luck. It has to be a dark-haired person because a blond or redhead represents the raiding Vikings. Anyway, the first footer is supposed to bring a bottle of whisky, a lump of coal or some firewood, and a black-bun cake. I will be first-footing at piper909's home this year as I have for the past 5 or so years. Instead of a black-bun, I will bring Christmas presents. BTW, I will be piping with piper909 and the Capital City Pipes & Drums in a parade on New Year's Eve, if all goes according to plan.
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 29, 2006 11:08:44 GMT -5
in pennsylvania, polish sausage and sauerkraut is eaten for good luck in the new year.
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Post by TexasMac on Dec 29, 2006 11:26:02 GMT -5
in pennsylvania, polish sausage and sauerkraut is eaten for good luck in the new year. Ah, this is obviously a tradition obtained from the PA "Dutch" (Deutsch). Between Houston and San Antonio spreading north and south of the I-10 corridor are several German/Czech communities that began around the 1840's. I suspect sausage and sauerkraut are traditional new years foods there, too! |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 29, 2006 13:47:20 GMT -5
Generally, in Texas, tomales are the good-luck food atr New Year's. Also, for the South in general, black-eyed peas are eaten for good luck. If you hadn't guessed by now, I am into my Scottish heritage big time. In Scotland, New Years is also called Hogmanay, and according to old tradition, Hogmanay was more of a celebrating time than Christmas. In Scotland, there is also a tradition called, "first-footing," in which a dark-haired person is to be the first to cross the threshhold of your house in the new year in order to bring good luck. It has to be a dark-haired person because a blond or redhead represents the raiding Vikings. Anyway, the first footer is supposed to bring a bottle of whisky, a lump of coal or some firewood, and a black-bun cake. I will be first-footing at piper909's home this year as I have for the past 5 or so years. Instead of a black-bun, I will bring Christmas presents. BTW, I will be piping with piper909 and the Capital City Pipes & Drums in a parade on New Year's Eve, if all goes according to plan. With some nice smooth Single Malt!! |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 30, 2006 14:17:46 GMT -5
My mother was Czech, TexasMac, and we generally would start the New Year with some dumplings in a sour cream gravy.
Here in California, many bars will serve menudo, come New Year's morn. Menudo, a spicy tripe and hominy soup, is supposed to be good for a hangover. Now, before you all go 'TRIPE?! YUCK!', it is actually pretty tasty. For those who want---or demand--- an alternative dish, there's always pozole, about the same as menudo, but substituting pork for the tripe.
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Post by neferetus on Dec 30, 2006 14:23:24 GMT -5
from celebrations or drive-bys? Celebrations. I live in a quiet peaceful neighborhood, Mike. (Back in my younger days, when living in El Monte, CA, a predominantly Mexican neighborhood, someone threw a grenade in the street and blew a nice crater in the asphault.) Then, a neighbor of ours, living in Azusa, CA awoke on New Year's morning to find a bullet in her bathtub, after many drunken revellers on New Year's Eve thought it was a fun idea to fire their guns into the air at midnight. But, as the old saying goes, 'what goes up, must come down---even through the roof! Have a safe and sane New Year's Eve everyone! |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 30, 2006 16:45:46 GMT -5
sounds like fun. as for the tripe, YUCK!!!
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Post by neferetus on Dec 31, 2006 20:39:24 GMT -5
sounds like fun. as for the tripe, YUCK!!! You Easterners! Next thing you'll be saying is that you've never tried head cheese. |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 31, 2006 21:19:01 GMT -5
i have seen it through the glass at the deli. thats as far as i will ever come to it. what the hell is in it?
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 31, 2006 21:20:43 GMT -5
im looking forward to dick clark's new years rockin eve in a few hours. do you guys get that out west or is that just a north eastern thing? anyway, since most active member here live out west and wont celbrate the new year until a few hours after i do, Have a Wonderful celebration and don't drink too much!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 31, 2006 21:23:37 GMT -5
It's 8:24pm and i'm still awake ;D
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 31, 2006 22:03:47 GMT -5
only 4 hrs to go!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 31, 2006 22:14:31 GMT -5
I'm still awake..  |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 31, 2006 23:22:09 GMT -5
40 mins. left for me!
if im not here at midnight, happy new years everybody!
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Post by Greg C. on Jan 1, 2007 0:09:45 GMT -5
first post of 2007!!!
you still up bromhead?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 1, 2007 15:44:22 GMT -5
I stayed up till 2:00am cst..
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