Dinner for One

Don't know how many of you guys, especially the Americans, who have even seen it, but it is a tradition to watch on New Years Eve down here so ...
Dinner for One

Interesting and thank you. We here in the South Eastern part of the USA have an interesting New Year's Day tradition of having a good luck meal of Greens, Grits and Black Eyed Peas.

Translated into common English, it means, boiled bleached dry corn meal, any kind of boiled leafy green winter garden greens that happened to grow that year and a type of hard bean.

I am not sure how it started. Such a meal is supposed to give you good luck throughout the New Year. Yumm yumm! HB of CJ (old coot) Most of us Southern folks love the taste also.

PS; Some believe since the diet is vegetarian in nature and actually quite balanced and was cheap to grow, it may have been at one time a Slave's ration. Anyhow, now a tradition.

HB of CJ wrote:Interesting and thank you. We here in the South Eastern part of the USA have an interesting New Year's Day tradition of having a good luck meal of Greens, Grits and Black Eyed Peas.

Translated into common English, it means, boiled bleached dry corn meal, any kind of boiled leafy green winter garden greens that happened to grow that year and a type of hard bean.

I am not sure how it started. Such a meal is supposed to give you good luck throughout the New Year. Yumm yumm! HB of CJ (old coot) Most of us Southern folks love the taste also.

PS; Some believe since the diet is vegetarian in nature and actually quite balanced and was cheap to grow, it may have been at one time a Slave's ration. Anyhow, now a tradition.

It may or may not give you good luck, but it should produce enough gas to put your outhouse in orbit....

Annachie wrote:Don't know how many of you guys, especially the Americans, who have even seen it, but it is a tradition to watch on New Years Eve down here so ...
Dinner for One

Ah yes, that one´s a classic here as well, aired same time.
Though i think it´s not the same recording as that one.

Tenshinai wrote:

Annachie wrote:Don't know how many of you guys, especially the Americans, who have even seen it, but it is a tradition to watch on New Years Eve down here so ...
Dinner for One

Ah yes, that one´s a classic here as well, aired same time.
Though i think it´s not the same recording as that one.

According to Wikipedia, you get the shorter Swiss version with less alcohol (however that's possible, original is four courses and four absent guests. Smaller glasses?).

aairfccha wrote:According to Wikipedia, you get the shorter Swiss version with less alcohol (however that's possible, original is four courses and four absent guests. Smaller glasses?).

Nah, 4 courses, 4 guests and glasses looks the same. All the props looks pretty much the same, but the version run here seem to be on a slightly smaller set and with cameras much closer to the table.

Not sure how they´re supposed to manage that, but i think it´s the better version because the cameras are closer.