The Black-eyed Pea Poll (Humble, Athens: income, stores, delivery) - Texas (TX) - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

westhou · 12-26-2008, 03:32 PM

It's the only time of the year I will actually eat them.

Happy Holidays everyone!

TexasReb · 12-26-2008, 04:13 PM

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Don't know about the story - I wasn't born until 1949. However, I do know that my mother (who was born WAY before 1947) served black-eyed peas every New Year's and said it was a tradition for good luck that she remembered back to the Depression. So I'm stuck between believing Charlie Eckhardt and believing my deceased mother. Hmmmmm.

We have them cooked with either salt joe, bacon, or ham, depending on what's handy, cornbread, and greens.

Lived in Henderson County for a while, by the way. When I lived there in the early 1960's, it was STILL oil and farming and farming and oil.

I am kinda curious about what the Henderson county newspapers of the day might say about it...?

Regardless though, I have to lean toward believing what the old folks and kin say. And if they remember it before 1947? Then what is a mere newspaper article compared to those recollections?

TexasHorseLady · 12-26-2008, 04:21 PM

I don't know, I wasn't paying attention to the newspaper. I was paying more attention to the folks we hung out with, and since I was the Methodist preacher's kid in Athens, that was a fair cross-section.

There were some interesting characters there. Mostly in the oil bidness, either new or old. (One great old grandfather guy that my Daddy and I used to go fishing with - I was impressed by him because he had bass in his lake on his farm - was one Clint Murchison, Sr. - think Texas Oil Mafia.) Others were farmers - some very successful, some not so much. There were people in other professions, of course, but those were the primary ones.

The Black Eyed Pea Festival was a big deal, then, as was the Old Fiddler's Festival every year.

The family farm, though, was in Rusk County. More farming and oil country, just a different kind of farming.

Canine*Castle · 12-26-2008, 04:24 PM

I don't normally eat them on new year's day, but I do throughout the year. After reading this thread, I do believe I'm going to the store tomorrow and buying the ingredients for the peas and cornbread.

I like mine with bacon or sausage, (although I've used beef before too) green pepper, and onions. I've gotten very hungry in the last few minutes, and that sounds so good. I doubt I'll wait for January 1 to cook them though.

TexasReb · 12-26-2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

I don't normally eat them on new year's day, but I do throughout the year. After reading this thread, I do believe I'm going to the store tomorrow and buying the ingredients for the peas and cornbread.

I like mine with bacon or sausage, (although I've used beef before too) green pepper, and onions. I've gotten very hungry in the last few minutes, and that sounds so good. I doubt I'll wait for January 1 to cook them though.

Don't forget to get fresh if at all possible, CC! But I am sure you know that already!

Well, everyone have a good evening! Outta here for now. My kids are down and this is the very first time I have been able to spend with my first grandson (4 months old). He is a little too young to have any this year, but next year, I hope to be able to feed my lil' buddy some ol' fashioned country cookin' jess like his granmaws used to make!

G'night y'all...and keep those recipes coming!

Pipeweld · 12-26-2008, 04:59 PM

I love those turnip greens with small turnips still attached!!! Or a least a few chunks of turnips in there!!! Also I like mustard, collard or even chard. With a shaker of pepper sauce (the kind with hot peppers in vinegar).
When you talk about cabbage I have to have corned beef!!!

Canine*Castle · 12-26-2008, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasReb

Don't forget to get fresh if at all possible, CC! But I am sure you know that already!

Well, everyone have a good evening! Outta here for now. My kids are down and this is the very first time I have been able to spend with my first grandson (4 months old). He is a little too young to have any this year, but next year, I hope to be able to feed my lil' buddy some ol' fashioned country cookin' jess like his granmaws used to make!

G'night y'all...and keep those recipes coming!

Actually, I don't buy fresh. Silly question, but do all markets sell them? I've never seen them. I don't buy canned but bagged which, I suppose, is better than canned. I've so much to learn. I can't believe I don't know that and I've lived here for so very long.

I remember when we first moved here from the big city in another state and my daughter, five at the time, went to kindergarten with a little boy whose dad was a peanut farmer. My sweet and too cute little one asked him where the peanut trees are. Jon has joked with her all her life about that.

How cool that you have a little grandson. I can only imagine how much fun you two will have as the years go by, and they go by way too quickly.