a:11:{s:14:"comment_author";s:4:"jody";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:21:"jodypayne18@gmail.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:20:"http://jodypayne.net";s:15:"comment_content";s:735:"I guess that like Hiroshima, the drastic measure of Sherman did end a terrible war. And, after all, he did leave the black eyed peas to start a delicious tradition. 

However, in my family, we still do not get a warm fuzzy feeling when old Sherman's name is mentioned. 

Still, I do like my black eyed peas, and insist upon ham for Christmas so we have a ham hock to pop into the slow cooker to flavor them. It's an inexpensive and delicious way to start a new year. I didn't know why until now, It was just one of the rules I follow with love of the family heritage, As a steel magnolia would say, "I just follow the rules. I don't make them."  In this case, my grandmother was right.

Happy New Year! Let's make this one count.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:7:"user_ip";s:14:"107.77.105.107";s:10:"user_agent";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14393";s:4:"blog";s:24:"http://judythewriter.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:78:"http://judythewriter.com/2017/01/02/black-eyed-peas-and-lucky-new-years-foods/";}