Here in the South, or for natives thereof, a traditional New Year’s Day dinner includes pork, usually ham, blackeyed peas for good luck, and a leafy green, usually turnip greens, for prosperity, the green symbolizing money. I’m all about blackeyed peas and turnip greens anytime I can get them. In a nod to my wife’s German ancestry, the pork will be a schnitzel. We will pair the whole thing with a mature Mosel Riesling, of course.
Cheers and best wishes for 2018.
Back at you Brian.
We’re here in the South, you know Southern California.
But on the stove now is a pot of black-eyed peas, simmering with a bunch of ham, turnip greens, and some carrots, celery, etc. with herbs and some chile peppers from our garden. Been doing itevery New Years for at least a decade. I’m not convinced it works, especially the wealth-inducing greens, but I’m afraid of spawning disasters if I skip it. Like the Falcons beating the Rams next Saturday.
JG,
Do you put ketchup on that? 
If you weren’t a Laker fan…
See #3.
http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/10-best-sandwiches-in-los-angeles-2381358