Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:05 pm
What's this curious tradition with black-eyed peas? And was it my non-observance of this ritual that caused me grief in setting up my new computer? 
No, chances are it was Windows Vista that caused the PC grief. Never have I had so many migration issues as getting things from my old PC to my new one - Vista bad for migration. Now that I don't have to do anything out of the ordinary with it - now that I simply sigh in weary submission instead of fume every time I get permissions-elevation spammed by Vista - now I'm less vehement.
I don't know where the black-eyed peas tradition came from, but I believe it is a Southern US thing, versus the boiled cabbage (boiled with a penny, of course) or sauerkraut which my family prefers to ring in the new year. That's a German thing, I think.
dw