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Friday, December 28, 2012

google Lucky foods for New Year



Wanna know what's best food for the New Year to be lucky?
Millions of believers from different countries of different beliefs and traditions welcome the new year with the following:










Lucky Foods To Prepare and Eat On New Year's Eve
  • Pork – is considered the luckiest food to prepare and eat on new years eve because pig digs the ground in forward direction, an idea of moving forward as the new year begins. 
    New Englanders often combine their pork with sauerkraut (cabbage) to guarantee luck and prosperity for the coming year.
Pig's front feet is also a recommendation for a progressive life ahead. Swedish and Filipinos (mostly in the Visayas) are known for Pig's Feet preparation on New Years Eve. The popular way of cooking Pig's Feet in the Visayas region is called "Humbang Baboy".
Italians and Americans do believe the fat content of the pork signifies wealth and prosperity.
  • Fruits - In Spanish Countries - 12 grapes are eaten just before midnight, one for each strike of the clock. Good luck will come to those who finish the grapes before the final stroke." 12 grapes represents 12 months of the year.
    Turkish associates pomegranates with abundance and fertility.
    As part of the Philippine New Year Tradition, Filipinos make it sure they have 12 different kinds of rounded fruits on the table as the clock strikes 12:00 midnight.
  • Greens - Cabbage, Lettuce, kale and chard symbolizes money ($) because of their green color and its shape is like folded money. It is believed that the more money shaped green leafy vegetable one eats, the more chances of striking a good fortune in the coming days and years.
  • Leggumes - Consuming beans and black eyed peas on New Years Eve may bring you some riches and wealth on the coming years because these coin shaped leggumes symbolizes money.
  • Fish - Germans are known to place fish scales in their wallets for good luck because fish scales symbolizes money due to its coin shaped appearance. The Swedish prepares different types of fish while the Japanese are known to eat herring roe for fertility, shrimp for long life, and dried sardines for a good harvest. Sardines were once used to fertilize rice fields.
Caviar and champagne made from grapes is a good match.
  • Sweets - Rounded and ring shaped cakes are prepared and eaten
  • Sweden and Norway have similar rituals in which they hide a whole almond in rice pudding—whoever gets the nut is guaranteed great fortune in the new year.
In Greece sweet breads often contain coins, and the person who gets the slice with the coin will have good luck that year.
In England Christmas puddings often contain coins or small trinkets which symbolize what will happen to you in the new year.
In Mexico, a traditional King's Cake or Rosca de Reyes contains a doll, and the person who gets the doll becomes king for the day and must find a woman to be his queen.
In Holland the New Year's treat is Olie Bollen or "oil balls" which are a type of puffy doughnut filled with apples, raisins and currants.
  • Noodles - It is Japan's tradition to eat noodles without breaking the the noodle thread for long life. Buddhist temples bells are rung 108 times.






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