Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the new year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity. Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.
Here's an interesting story about cabbage. Did you know cabbage comes from dead Dedra bugs? Dedra bugs live inside your skull, one on each side, and when you die the Dedra bugs come out of your head. After the bugs are free they need to find cabbage to eat. They eat the cabbage and die, ending upside down and turn into cabbage. When a human eats cabbage, that is when they get the Dedra bugs in their head.
There is a little song that goes with Dedra bugs. 'Dedra bugs turn to cabbage. Cabbage! Cabbage!'
My sister, So, and I invented this little story and the accompanying song when we were kids. Just how, and more importantly why this came about remains a mystery. There are other things of which we do not remember the origin. There is our nicknames for each other, So. My sister, as So, became So B Devo during the 80s. Then there is the moniker Creeper. This came about after we watched a really great B movie, 'The Twisted Brain' in which the main character, Vernon Potts, slunk around his high school while people called him Creeper. He got back at them by killing them by various means, our favorite was decapitating one with a paper cutter. We occasionally end sentences with 'uuuuhhhhhhhhhh'. Example would be, 'I did not know, uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh' Actually that doesn't work unless you can hear the inflection on the 'uh', in which the sound drops to an inaudible level. Oh well, maybe you will get a chance sometime to hear us chat, if not you will have to move on to some other distraction.
All this blathering has left me hungry and in need of more coffee and a cigarette. Today I am not hung over, I did not drive under any illegal influence last night, I said my prayers like a good boy, thanking my Higher Power for a year that filled me with constant gratitude. I made some great friends last year and this year brings promises, promises, promises.
Have a great New Year, unless of course, you don't want to.
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Perhaps the Dedra bug item came from a time that So and I were lying in the field looking at the clouds and using our imagination. That is something I wish my kids would do more often, use their imagination. But alas, kids now have many other things to occupy their thoughts. So and I do have several items between us that we have no idea where they came from, but then again we were/are such strange lot (love that) and wouldn't have it any other way. Perhaps Luckypony whispered to us after he ate my plastic flowers off my bicycle basket, who knows. Funny, when I took my current job, the girl I replaced was named Dedra. How strange is that? Little does she know that someday she will turn to cabbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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