1 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Food Stuff. I'm an Eeries and 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: I'm Lauren vocal Bum and today we're talking about New 3 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: Year's foods, which we kind of already talked about a 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: bunch of times on the show. Yeah, like champagne or toasting, 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: maybe a wall sail bowls involved, perhaps jelly donuts. Yeah, 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: but there are all their food traditions. There's a lot 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: of them in fact, oh just just just a few. Yeah, 8 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: if you want to know more about those things, We've 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: got a whole episodes on them. Yes, but but New 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: Year's foods Yeah, so wait, New Year's foods, what are they? 11 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: What are they? I guess their foods that you eat 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: on New Year's easy section done excellent. So in my 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: family on New Year's Day, we would eat ham, black 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: eyed peas, and turnip. Greens are colors. The ham represented 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: the look, the black eyed peas coins and the turn 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: greens or collards, which was based on whatever my mom 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: liked more that year at the store. That was your 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: dalla dalla bills. This is all you could eat luck 19 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: and money for the coming year. And my brothers were 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: quite picky, as I mentioned before, but my mom was 21 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: able to get them to eat things they generally wouldn't 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: with vague promises of wealth and luck in their future. 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: I thought everyone in the US did this, but upon 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: some research, it seems it is mostly a Southern tradition. Yeah. 25 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: I literally never heard of this until I moved to Atlanta. 26 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: I did not. I didn't know that anyone did anything 27 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: like that. Huh. Yeah, well, there are a couple of 28 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: variations on it. Um the greens representing that green specifically 29 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: folding bills and kind of specifically green. So it's probably American. Yeah, 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: apart from collars or turn up, some people use cabbage, 31 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: sauer kraut, kale, shard, or mustard greens. Really, any leafy 32 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: green will do. For coins, black eyed peas are the 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: traditional choice, but any beans are peas are acceptable. Lentils 34 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: are a popular option. Yeah, Lentils might be a loner 35 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: from Italy, where their coin like shape also makes them 36 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: a popular New Year's food. They are frequently cooked with 37 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: him are some other type of pork for seasoning, because 38 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: that's how we do it in the South. Be careful vegetarians, 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: you ever visit here? Oh yeah, yeah. If if a 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: menu item doesn't say doesn't specify vegetarian, it probably has 41 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: pork in it. Probably also the pork is good for 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: some extra luck, all the luck you can get and 43 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: ask for that luck. The pork is you're look And 44 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: this seems to be because pigs root forward. We're not 45 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: really sure, but that's the reasoning that Lauren and I 46 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: came across the most. Yeah, like like other animals scratch 47 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: backwards or move kind of willy nilly when they're looking 48 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: for food, but pigs root forward. Yes, as the Pennsylvania 49 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: Dutch say, the pigs root for it. Someone is like 50 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: a quote. It's something people's head. It could also be 51 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: because in Eastern Europe and Germany it was seen as 52 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: sort of a food safety thing to butcher large animals 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: when it was cold outside, usually November. There's a painting 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: and a cathedral in Germany of a pig being slaughtered, 55 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: with the Latin inscription underneath reading everybody rejoices when November 56 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: kills its pig. Because this meant fresh cuts a pig 57 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: and maybe even reserving some for New Year's as opposed 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: to the preserved pork that people depended on throughout the 59 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: rest of the year. It was kind of like a 60 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: celebration fresh fresh pork. And this is also perhaps why 61 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: sauer kraut is a tradition for some people. It takes 62 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: six to eight weeks to firm it, which if you 63 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: kill the pig in November and you want to have 64 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: some acidity to cut that fatty pork, the timing works 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: out pretty perfectly. The longer the strand of crowd, by 66 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: the way, the longer your life. That's what the superstition 67 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: tells us. Some people think the fatter the pig, the 68 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: fatter your wallet. It's amazing how much of this, like luck, 69 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: is tied to wealth. Oh yeah, there's also a German 70 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: saying fine, which literally means had a pig. It culturally 71 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: means that you've had a lucky time. Supposedly this comes 72 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: from medieval times in what's now Germany and or Austria, 73 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: when if you managed to breed a whole bunch of 74 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: pigs in one year, where sometimes if you had any 75 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: number of pigs at all, you know that was a 76 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: really fortunate and awesome thing. Yeah. A way of wishing 77 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: someone luck in Germany in Austria is to say final schweine, 78 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: which literally means much pig. I love that. Yeah, so 79 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: clearly the South is not the only place that sees 80 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: pork as lucky. Yeah, and we'll talk about some of 81 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: these other traditions around the world in a bit. And 82 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: we never did this at my family New Year's meal. 83 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: But cornbread is another thing that is often part of 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: the Southern tradition, both as a symbol for gold and 85 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: because for a lot of Southerners, turn up greens and 86 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: black eyed peas without corn bread is unthinkable. Why would 87 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: you even bother? I mean, what are you doing with 88 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: your life? There's actually a really long history to this 89 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: lucky meal or um, at least the black eyed peas 90 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: part of it. As far back as five CE, the 91 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: town mentions that at the time black eyed peas were 92 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: eaten to celebrate the Jewish New Year, but actually no, 93 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: it mentioned finn a Greek seas. However, there's there was 94 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: this like sounds like esque mix up with the word 95 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: meaning to increase or expand and the word for black 96 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: eyed peas, So some people started eating black eyed peas 97 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: as part of the New Year's celebration. Yeah. From there, 98 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: it's possible that the tradition was brought to Georgia in 99 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: the US, not the country, and the seventeen thirties with 100 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: the arrival of the Sephardic Jews one possibility. Another has 101 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: to do with the Civil War. As the story goes, 102 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: when Sherman's Union army ransacked Confederate food supplies, they left 103 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: pork and peas untouched, thinking this was feed for animals. 104 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: I want to know what animals getting pork, but probably 105 00:05:54,320 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: other pigs. Okay, Well, anyway, the Confederates drew started to 106 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: associate these foods with luck because it helps from them 107 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: them survived the cold winters and later reconstruction. Probably not true, though. 108 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: Another telling of this goes that the black eyed peas 109 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: symbolize the emancipation of slaves, which happened officially on the 110 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: New Year after the Civil wars end. But why, you 111 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: might wonder, because the first inmesticated. They were first inmesticated 112 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: over five thousand years ago in Africa and came over 113 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: to the US on slave ships. They were fairly common 114 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: in the diet of slaves. Another thing worth pointing out. 115 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: These foods were staples for families not making that much money. 116 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: They were cheap and pretty easy to grow, even in winter. 117 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: And if you're thinking, but wait a minute, black eyed 118 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: peas don't really look like coins. Nothing like coins, really, know. 119 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: I kind of got a coin shape, I guess on 120 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: the top of it. Yeah, And I couldn't really think 121 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: of anything off the top of my head that would 122 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: be better. Maybe like rounds of potatoes. Um. Anyway, some 123 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: folks think that eating black eyed peas is a way 124 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: to show off how how much humility you have. I 125 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: love that, show off how full you are, and also 126 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: how not vain you are. Apparently there is an expression 127 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: that some people somewhere say backs up this assertion. Eat 128 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: poor on New Year's and eat fat the rest of 129 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: the year. Okay. Another interpretation to the inclusion of peas 130 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: or beans in this traditional lucky meal is that they 131 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: expand a lot when exposed to water, representing expanding well. 132 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: And apparently some people count three hundred sixty five peas 133 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: are three hundred and sixty six on a leap here, 134 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: one for each day of the year, and if you don't, 135 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: you'll only be lucky equivalent to the amount of peas 136 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: you eight, And if you eat more than three sixty five, 137 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: it converts the number you went over to bad luck days. 138 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,559 Speaker 1: In some traditions, you leave a p on the plate 139 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: on top of the three sixty five or three six 140 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: to share your luck with someone. I've never heard of that. 141 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: That seems like a lot of work. I generally these 142 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: days just make a soup with this stuff. Um and 143 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: any day now that money is gonna come, it's gonna 144 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: come raining. Now. I bet you it's gonna be all 145 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: thanks to you that the turn up greens in my 146 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: soup I eat on New Year's Day. Another way a 147 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: lot of people do it is hop and John, which 148 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: is a dish that combines rice, black eyed peas, and 149 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: ham or bacon. If you really want to go out 150 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: all out on this business, you put a dime in 151 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: the pot, although I'm not sure how lucky you'll feel 152 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: if you accidentally swallow a dime or choke on one 153 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: to ruin something else for you. This dish originated with 154 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: West African slaves. The first published recipe appeared in Sarah Religeous, 155 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: The Carolina Housewife in seven but slaves were certainly making 156 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: it before then. We already know rice was a big 157 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: crop for South Carolina. Peas were a cheap way to 158 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: feed slaves on the journey over and once they arrived. 159 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: Um As for the name. Nobody is entirely sure where 160 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: it comes from, but most food story and think it 161 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: comes from the French words for dried peas popjan. Yeah. 162 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,599 Speaker 1: It's part of a really interesting history of food for 163 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: people of color in the South that will definitely have 164 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: to explore more of at a later time and date. 165 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: Among the US, certain areas in the US with large 166 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: Scandinavian populations you might see the tradition of eating pickled 167 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: herring at midnight. Since the herring was easily pickled, healthy, 168 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: and a vital part of Northern European trade, it was 169 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: kind of a It was kind of a big deal. However, 170 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: the fish itself was unpredictable and how it would migrate, 171 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: to the point that the appearance of one was seen 172 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: as the carrier of divine message. Eating herring on New 173 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: Year's was like a prayer for prosperity. Also, it's silver 174 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: color and scales might hearken to money, money, money, money, money. 175 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: Uh yeah. Eating herring is also popular in Western European 176 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: New Year's traditions. When Dutch colonists first started arriving to 177 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: the US, they bought with them New year cookies, sometimes 178 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: called New Year's cakes. They were these super thin, crisp 179 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: sugar cookies, sometimes with caraway or lenon or apple ciders. 180 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes they were cut in fancy shapes or stamped with 181 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:17,319 Speaker 1: fancy shapes. They enjoyed a brief but intense popularity, grazing 182 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: the pages of all kinds of cookbooks in the eighteen 183 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 1: forties and fifties, but by the eighteen eighties they had 184 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: faded into culinary obscurity. And and for from a Philadelphia 185 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: baker for Christmas cookies, read that he had quoted the 186 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: real New York New Year's cheese New Year's cheesecakes, I said, 187 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: cheesecake without even that's how much New York, New York 188 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: is associated with cheesecake. Oh man, Okay, that was a 189 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: really interesting it was, and we'll have to examine that 190 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: at the date. Okay, okay, now New Year's cakes. The 191 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: genuine Knickerbockers of all sizes from a cartwheel to eleven 192 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: penny bit um. They, to some confusion about oly cokim 193 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: Christmas cakes were sometimes called knickerbockers. O cookin a k. A. 194 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: Oly bullen are another holiday donut, and are traditionally made 195 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: and eaten on the Year's Eve in both the old 196 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: world and the new. Another tradition brought over with the 197 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: early Dutch open house. Okay, this is not this is 198 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: not a thing that I'm personally familiar with, not outside 199 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: of like school open house um, which probably came from this. 200 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: At first, this custom was mostly limited to Dutch immigrants 201 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: living in New York, but from there it's spread, particularly 202 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: in the Northeast. Is basically what it sounds like on 203 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: New Year's Day, your house was open for anyone, anyone 204 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: to come to coll and you'd have donuts and honey 205 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: cakes and cookies on hand for visitors. This practice was 206 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: even observed by President George Washington. According to the journal 207 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 1: the U. S. Senator, on January, the first New Year's 208 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: after he was inaugurated, George Washington held open house um. 209 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: And things kind of got out of hand with this practice. Um, 210 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 1: if you intended to receive company, you would list the 211 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: hours you'd be home in the paper. Yeah, makes sense. Sure, 212 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: young fellas looking to get drunk would see this and 213 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: hit up every half listed drink the provided punch and dash. 214 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: People would wander around the streets at the newspaper under 215 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: their arm, like looking for free meals. That sounds like 216 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: something we would do. I know, I can't. The practice 217 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: of listing the open house hours ended as the nineteenth 218 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: century came to a close, and you opened your house 219 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: only to friends or enemies if you're looking to do 220 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: a bit of a reset on your relationship and begin 221 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: a new Another day on this tradition had ladies opening 222 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: their house to as many gentlemen callers as they could 223 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: handle on the first New Year's after the lady of 224 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: the house had married. According to etiquette rules of the 225 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: time quote, the taste of gentlemen only are to be consulted, 226 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: and it is understood that they prefer rather substantial dishes. 227 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: None of that lady food. Yeah, ladies. It became increasingly 228 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: more common to go out on New Year's Eve in 229 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: the twentieth century. One rite up described some of these 230 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: events taking place in New York City. At least eight 231 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: spots decided that fifteen dollars per person will be about 232 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: right for this nominal sum. The lucky patron will be 233 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: permitted to sit at a table in a chair on 234 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: his own, eat his supper, watch the entertainment, and yell 235 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: his head off on the zero hour approaches in case 236 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: he can't yell, he will find beside his plate an 237 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: infernal machine that will they call the noises he wants. 238 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: When agitated in the proper manner, doubtless, he will be 239 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: showered with confetti at no extra charge. Of course, if 240 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: he should thirst for anything stronger than water, he may 241 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: have at it at the usual rates, over and above 242 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: the initial fifteen dollars. Fifteen dollars today, Oh, you couldn't 243 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: get anywhere, Oh my goodness, nowhere. No New New Year's 244 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: celebrations are so expensive. Did you ever do anything like 245 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: this or in like the New Year's Did you ever 246 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: have any New Year's food traditions? Zero? Absolutely, I grew 247 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: up with none of those things. By the time I 248 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: was of drinking age, I guess a sparkling wine toast 249 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: at midnight became a pretty common thing for me. It's 250 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: actually the first thing that I ever drank socially, you know, 251 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: like not including like ritualistic wine at passive versader uh, 252 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: sparkling wine on New Year's I do really love a 253 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: pork and Sara kraut roast, though an ex of mine 254 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: turned beyond to that, And oh man, that's it. Just 255 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: it tastes like the holidays I don't know, it's nice. Yeah, 256 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: well we so this is kind of what the US 257 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: has done as far as um New Year's food traditions. 258 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: But let's talk about some of the around the world one. 259 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: But first a quick break for a word from our sponsor, 260 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: and we're back. Thank you, sponsor, Yes, thank you. Apart 261 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: from the aforementioned jelly donut, beer leaner, or any ring 262 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: shaped food like a button cake. Oh my god, is 263 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: that why we say ring in the New Year? No, no, 264 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: it's not. I had a really brief, brief moment of 265 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: pure excitement thinking about it. And now it has to 266 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: do with bells, of course. Yeah, but that I mean 267 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: cool to think. There are so many New Year's food 268 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: traditions around the world, so many, and of course there 269 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: are a lot of different dates that the New Year's 270 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: can fall on around the world. Even the modern Western calendar, 271 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: the Gregorian calendar, which marks New Year's is January one, 272 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: only goes back to the fifteen sixties, so you've got 273 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year, which falls 274 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: in late winter about February ish. And oh May, maybe 275 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have started with this one. It's like a 276 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: lie because We're going to have to do a whole 277 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: episode on this. There are so many traditions among so 278 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: many cultures that observe this holiday, and every single one 279 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: of them is making me hungry right now. Um. The 280 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: easiest and most pervasive maybe uncut noodles, symbolizing longevity and 281 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: long luck. Yeah uh. There's the Jewish New Year Russiashana, 282 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: which falls in the fall like September Ish, and there 283 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: are a handful of traditional foods or ingredients really to 284 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: celebrate that. There's honey for hopes of a sweet new year, round, 285 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: loaves of the egg, bread, holla for the cycle of life, 286 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: the head of a fish or lamb for hopes that 287 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: will all be at the head of everything to come. 288 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: Pomegranates for hopes that the new year will bring new 289 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: fruit that's full of seeds or I mean like opportunities. 290 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And and then a whole bunch of things 291 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: that are puns in Hebrew and or Yiddish. Uh, carrots, 292 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: because the Hebrew word for carrot sounds like the word 293 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: for decree, so you might eat them in hopes of 294 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: removing any negative decrees held against you out there. The 295 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: Yiddish word for carrot sounds a bit like the word 296 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: for more, so you might eat them in hopes of 297 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: increased blessings. There's dates. The Hebrew for date sounds a 298 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: bit like the verb to end, so you might eat 299 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: them in hopes that your troubles will be finished. Pumpkins 300 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: and other winter squash the Hebrew for which sounds like 301 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: to cut or rip and like a hominem, meaning to announce, 302 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: so you might eat it in hopes that your bad 303 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: deeds will be ripped from the pages of history, and 304 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: that your good deeds will be announced to all. That'd 305 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: be nice, right. Peas and beans the word sounds like 306 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: the Hebrew verb to increase, and does can symbolize increased 307 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: blessings again. And the word for beat sounds like the 308 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: Hebrew for remove or like go away again, symbolizing the 309 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: hope that your troubles or enemies will vanish. I love 310 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: how you could interpret it in a different way, though, Yeah, well, 311 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: well yeah, you're a means well more definitive then. In Japan, 312 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: there's a bunch of different things. There's toshikoshi, soba and 313 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: okay so On New Year's Eve, some Japanese families eat 314 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: toshikoshi soba or year crossing buck wheat noodles. Fresh soba 315 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: noodles are are long, symbolizing longevity, and they're also thin 316 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: and tender, reflecting the eater's ability to cut through and 317 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 1: overcome any hardships of the previous year. The noodles can 318 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: be served hot or cold, and super with dipping sauces 319 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: and with garnishes from like sweet fried bean curd to 320 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: salty fish cakes too simple green onion. Also mochi and 321 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: not just eating these sticky, chewy, glutinous rice cakes. Part 322 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: of the tradition is helping make them in this whole 323 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: event called mochi suki, which is the pounding of rice 324 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: to make the cakes. And if you're doing this the 325 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: old fashioned way, you've got someone using a mallet to 326 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: pound cooked rice in the big mortar, and someone else 327 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: reaching in to turn the mound of rice in between 328 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: each down swing of the mallet. And if that sounds 329 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: like a crazy dance, it is, yeah. Yeah. But once 330 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: the rice is a dough without a trace of any 331 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: kind of grain like shapes left, you pull off bits 332 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: and shape them into cakes. Some maybe left plain to 333 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,959 Speaker 1: be added to sweet or savory soup, and some may 334 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: be filled with the sweet filling like red bean paste. 335 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: You can find machisuki in places other than Japan, too. 336 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: You can check with your local Japanese culture club and 337 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: see if you've got one near you. The tradition is 338 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: said to stem from the practice of making mochi, which 339 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: can keep pretty decently in the time leading up to 340 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: New Year's so that you can eat them during the 341 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: holiday without making noise in your kitchen which might piss 342 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: off the spirits of the kitchen. You also set out 343 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: some of this mochi as offerings for your various household 344 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: spirits and eat it a couple of weeks later, by 345 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: which point it's probably hardened a bit and so consuming 346 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: it is symbolic of, you know, toughness or strength during 347 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: the coming year. On the post or end of Japanese 348 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: New Year's celebrations, you've got a sati riori or New 349 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: Year's foods traditionally served to fancy people in fancy jubbacco, 350 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: which are these ornate, stackable partitioned boxes sort of similar 351 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: to to bento boxes if you're familiar with those, and 352 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: a whole lot of different things can go into these. 353 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: A there's. Some of the popular things are candied chestnuts 354 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: and sweet potatoes, dicon and carrots, salad, candied sardines, herring 355 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: row harring again, simmered shrimp, pressed fish cakes, kelp tad 356 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: into a fancy little boll very pastiate. Indeed, here's another one. 357 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: Remember that field sprine from the top of the episode. 358 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: Pigs are such a symbol of luck that in Germany 359 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: and Austria, lucky pig shaped confections are sold around New 360 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: Year's They're called a gluck Schweine, and although most often 361 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: they are made of marzipan, which is sweet almond paste, 362 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: they also come in chocolate formats, and Austrians sometimes eat 363 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: suckling pig for New Year's dinner. In Italy, Spain and 364 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: some other Spanish and Italian speaking countries, grapes are a 365 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: major player in New Year's festivities. The Spanish version is 366 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: La or the twelve grapes of Luck, and the tradition 367 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: goes that you eat one grape at each chime of 368 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: the clock at midnight to ensure good luck in each 369 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: month of the new year. These grapes are usually thicker 370 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: skinned and seedier to what we're used to in the 371 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: United States, so sometimes they're peeled and seated before the 372 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: final countdown begins. And in Italy the grapes still symbolize prosperity, 373 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: but the tradition is to eat as many as possible 374 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: come midnight, like in the first minute. Yeah, like like 375 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: during those chimes. Kingcake, okay, kincake here in the United 376 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: States is mostly associated with Mardi Gras a KSh rover 377 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: fat Tuesday, which happens at least a month after New 378 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: Year's Day based on the lunar solar calendar that determines 379 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: when Easter falls. But even here in the States, kincakes 380 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: are available darting on Epiphany, which is the twelfth day 381 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: of Christmas a ka January six, and in some Christian 382 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: traditions is also called Three Kings Day and celebrates the 383 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: visit of the Three Wise Men to the Baby Jesus. Thus, 384 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: a bunch of cultures make a King's cake sort of 385 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: crown shaped things sometime on or between New Year's and Epiphany, 386 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: and these cakes fall into two basic categories. You've got 387 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: the French style gillet of flaky puff pastry filled with 388 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: stuff like French Japan and topped with more puff pastry 389 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: and then the Spanish style sweet yeast bread topped with 390 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: candied fruit and or nuts. All of them, though, contain 391 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: a bean, coin, nut or other token baked in that 392 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: is said to bring luck to whoever finds it. Again, 393 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: probably not a few choke on it. Yeah, and they 394 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: are all over the heck in place, France, Spain, Latin America, Portugal, Bulgaria, Grease, Cypress, Louisiana, 395 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: et cetera. Uh. A few more quick ones that I 396 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: ran across that I liked, smashing a pomegranate and the 397 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: front door in grace. The more seeds and the fruit, 398 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: the more luck you will have. In Turkey, they actually 399 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: eat the pomegranate, the idea that doing so will grant 400 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: you fertility and abundance. I read in some places that 401 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: in Belarus, single women will stand in front of a 402 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: pile of corn kernels, and then someone lets a rooster loose, 403 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: and the woman the rooster hits to first is going 404 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: to be the first to get married. I have questions 405 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: about that one, but we'll move on. The Scottish still 406 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 1: do this whole first footing thing, and the tradition is 407 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: to bring some whiskey over to a friends after the 408 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: midnight toast. So I like this idea, I know. First 409 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: footing refers to this idea that the first person to 410 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: step over the threshold of your door sets the tone 411 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,719 Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. Luck lore tells us 412 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: that a tall, brown haired man is the best luck. 413 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: Blonde and red hair no good. Yes, And for the 414 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: love of God cross your fingers. It's not a woman 415 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: or terrible Yeah, you know, And so is doing laundry 416 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 1: on New Year's Day. Apparently someone you care about will 417 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: be washed away and die. Some people take it a 418 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: step further and don't wash dishes that day either. Another 419 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: superstition says you need to leave all the doors open 420 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: when midnight strikes so the spirit of the old ear 421 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: can leave and let the new one in. On top 422 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: of that, you need to make loud noises to scare 423 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: away the devil and other spirits. Yes, sure, but back 424 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: to food based ones A little mini tangent there. The 425 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: minute before midnight on New Year's Even at El Salvador, 426 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: you might crack open an egg into a glass of 427 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: water and then try to figure out what the shape 428 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: the yolk makes is trying to tell you about the 429 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: coming year, which I want to do. Yeah. In Ireland, 430 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: to vanquished hunger the coming year, you might partake in 431 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: the Night of the Big Portion. On New Year's Eve, 432 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: you'd bake up this huge cake, smash it, then gather 433 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: the crumbs and eat them. On New Year's Day, as 434 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: a symbol of your triumph, you'd leave a piece of 435 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: buttered bread on your front door. Because of this, New 436 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: Year's Day is sometimes called the Day of the Buttered Bread. 437 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: I read in some places that kids go around eating 438 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: the bread. Okay, okay, yeah that sounds great. I recently 439 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: smashed a cake with a hammer and then ate it, 440 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: so I am really behind this one. I'm one percent 441 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: on board. It was very fun. How did it? What? 442 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,239 Speaker 1: It was? For a video I was doing and it 443 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: was just so funky. Yeah, I've never tried to I 444 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't imagine that hammer would have a lot of well 445 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: it was a kitchen hammer. Oh okay, like a like 446 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: a mallet shape, big one, big one. Okay, it makes 447 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: more sense now I'm back with you, okay, perfect. I 448 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: was like, what kind of cake? Was it? Frozen? Going off? 449 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: Ice cream cake? Um? So those are a few, Oh yeah, 450 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 1: there's a lot more out there, and hey, if we 451 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 1: missed your favorite, then right in and tell us this 452 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: probably covers like some of the big ones, but yeah, 453 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: absolutely let us know, yes, please do um so those 454 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: are around the world. When we get back, we're going 455 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: to talk about science. Yeah, but first quick break for 456 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor, and we're back, Thank you sponsor. Okay, 457 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:46,640 Speaker 1: science of luck, take it away, Lauren, now, yeah, just kidding. Yeah, 458 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: although although you know, the human brain and our sense 459 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: of luck is is pretty fascinating. There's a whole theory 460 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: about the hot hand bias, in which we are primed 461 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: to think that if we've done this thing and gotten 462 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 1: a good result, then clearly doing it again will get 463 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: perhaps an even better result. That's why people play slot machines. 464 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: Monkeys are also susceptible to this, by the way, so 465 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: it's not only it's not only us. Like primates in 466 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: general A really like slot machines and b are totally 467 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: convinced that if you do something and it has a 468 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: good result, then it's great to do all the time, 469 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: like a lucky shirt. Almost, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I kind 470 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: of want to make a feast of all of these 471 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: things and see what happens. Aside from a stomach ache. Yeah, 472 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: and around the world of New Year's food editions, but 473 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: midnight would be chaos, perhaps in a hilariously fun way. 474 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,439 Speaker 1: Twelve grapes, you get your pickled hair and you're smashing 475 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: a pomegrant, you're smashing some bread, reading what my egg 476 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 1: yook says, drinking whiskey. I think it could be a 477 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: fun chaotic thing to try. Yeah, oh man, okay, maybe 478 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: for next year. And we talked about some mostly almost 479 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 1: completely good luck foods, but there are some bad luck foods. 480 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We ran into a few of these. One 481 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: of the that we ran across is lobster. Yes, this 482 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: is a food to be avoided on New Year's according 483 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: to some because they move backwards, and this could mean 484 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: setbacks for you and you're coming year if you're foolish 485 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: enough to eat some on New Year's. Maybe more research 486 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: is needed. I suggest a case study where researcher eats 487 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: lobster every day of the year and documents any rises 488 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: are falls. I'm like, oh yeah, we'd have to toss 489 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: it out immediately. Another bad look food chicken, and I 490 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 1: love the reasoning vine is when they have wings and 491 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: they could fly away, just like your luck if you 492 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: eat chicken. Also, they scratch backwards, like you said earlier, 493 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: and you don't want to move backwards, or you don't 494 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: want to start from scratch, or have only scratch for change, 495 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: multiple puns. There's a lot going on, and I didn't 496 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: make any of these up. These are reason people cited. 497 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: I also read that this is one of the reasons 498 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: why we eat turkey at the end of the year, 499 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: because you're bearing the past. But I would say that's 500 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: retroactively applied. I think you might be bringing a little 501 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: bit more logic than you that's true. I'm bringing logic 502 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: to a luck fight. That's New Year's foods. Yeah. Um, 503 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: but we have a lot of you answered the call 504 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 1: yes and sent us beautiful toasts. Thank you so much. 505 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: So Yeah. So we've got a bunch of them that 506 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: we are going to read here. Yes, the first is 507 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: from gen She wrote, I just finished listening to the 508 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: podcast on toasting, and the discussion on toasting traditions brought 509 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: me back to my days as an officer at the 510 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: Cadet Core of the Canadian Armed Forces. Formal mess dinners 511 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: are a very important part of being an officer, so 512 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: much that you are instructed and tested on mess etiquette 513 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: during basic training. Working at the Cadet summer training centers 514 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: on military bases across Canada, I intend many mess dinners 515 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: with a mix of officers and and CEOs from the 516 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: Air Force, Army and Navy get to see a lot 517 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: of toasting traditions, both official and unofficial. The official round 518 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: of toasting begins after the may A meal with the 519 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: passing of the porch. The port is always passed to 520 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: the left and different branches of military have different ways 521 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: of passing the bottle. The Air Force passes through the 522 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: air never letting the bottle touch the table. The Army 523 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: slams the bottle onto the table as hard as possible, 524 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: and the Navy passes the bottle under the table simulating 525 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: the sea. As you can imagine, this makes for quite 526 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: the spectacle. At mixed branch dinners, the official toasting always 527 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: begins with the President of the Mess Committee toasting ladies 528 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: and gentlemen, the Queen of Canada, followed by the Vice 529 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: p and m C. Madame and Monsieur Lauren du Canada, 530 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: the Queen of Canada, and of course is the Queen 531 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: of England and the Commonwealth. Another important tradition is that 532 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: one must stand when one's branch marches played, holding one's glass, 533 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: often while singing along and toasting at the end of 534 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: the song. As Air Force folks go one step further, 535 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: and those of us who have earned our pilot wings 536 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: will stand on our chairs, posting our status above all 537 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: the non pilots in the room. Pilots are known their 538 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: modesty and humility. Mia or Maya wrote in with a 539 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: story for the toasting episode. Senior year of college. My 540 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: friends and I of course got all nostalgic for the year, 541 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: so we made a new rule that applied to every 542 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 1: time any of us got together in drink, so Friday nights, parties, school, 543 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: host graduation events, anything. The rule was that when the 544 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: end of whatever we got together for came, we would 545 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: nominate one person to give the final toast, which means 546 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: that the one person, usually the most intoxicated person, would 547 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: be giving a toast for the evening. Usually these toasts 548 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: ended up leading to thanking people for friendships, calling people 549 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: out for random stuff that happened during our four years 550 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: at school, or just random spurts of whatever they needed 551 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: to say. It was a weird tradition but a great 552 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: and fun way to wrap our college experience up. My 553 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: close friend group was pretty big, about twelve people, but 554 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: every six months we still get together on a group Skype. 555 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 1: And yes, of course everyone has a drink and at 556 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: the end is a toast. Sounds like a nice tradition, 557 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: Emily wrote, as far as toasting goes, I have a 558 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: friend who frequently hosts parties at his house and the 559 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: first drink of the night is always two boobs. It's 560 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: simple and pretty silly, but it's nice to have that tradition. 561 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: My roommate and I are trying to come up with 562 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: the toast for the first drink at our house, but 563 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: so far we haven't found anything quite as good. Also, 564 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: my favorite toast is saliente, which is the Irish form 565 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: of good health. Molly sent us this. I wanted to 566 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: weigh in with a toast I didn't hear in your episode, though, 567 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: which kind of surprised me. And it's absence the Jewish 568 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: toast lahayam to life and maybe it's me growing up 569 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: in a half Jewish home, but lahayam is one I've 570 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: heard most of my life, and the modern connotation to 571 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: me has always been very endearing. It's something we say 572 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: to toast to long life, and to quote the musical 573 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: Fiddler on the Roof, if our good fortune never comes, 574 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: here's to whatever comes. So drink Lahaium to life. Doing 575 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: some research, though, I found a somewhat more insidious background. 576 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: According to dot org, after the judges of the Jewish 577 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: court would deliberate on capital cases, they would turn one 578 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: last time to those whom they sent to question the 579 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: witnesses and ask for their opinion. If they opined the 580 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: plaintiff should live, they would reply Lahayam to life. If, however, 581 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: it was death, they would reply Lama to death. If 582 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: the judges found the defendant guilty, he would be given 583 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: very strong wine in order to diminish the pain of 584 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: the execution. At least people went out after a stiff 585 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: drink in those cases. True. Yes, oh thank you, Molly. 586 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: I'm sorry that I forgot that one. Caroline sent us 587 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: this classic. Here's to those who wish as well. Those 588 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: who don't can go to hell. Andy wrote it on Twitter. 589 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: I have family friends, and the whole family will say 590 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: Nasa dro Vier. The mother's family is Polish, except the 591 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: dad always responds nice driveways. It gets me every time 592 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: Christie sent is this one. Her mom taught her Here's 593 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: to you and here's to me and hopes we never disagree. 594 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: But if we go to hell with you and by God, 595 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: here's to me. Uh. James on Twitter gave us may 596 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: you get what you need and never what you deserve, 597 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: which actually closely mirrors something that my friends and I say, 598 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: which is, oh goodness, it's uh. We may not get 599 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: what we want, we may not get what we need, 600 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,320 Speaker 1: just as long as we don't get what we deserve. 601 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: I love it from Aaron, Uh, just finish your toasting 602 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 1: episode and want to let you know a small audition 603 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: modification we employ in Wisconsin. I'm guessing this depends on 604 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: who you're with, but as I graduated from the u W, 605 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: I frequently find myself in the company of fellow Badgers. 606 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: Almost every toast, generally an honor of one of the 607 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 1: college sports teams is concluded with and on Wisconsin, a 608 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: clink and glass taf on the table before you drink. 609 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: I found it interesting that there's not a solid reason 610 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: for why this came about. But as my husband is 611 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: fairly superstitious when it comes to Badger athletics, I won't 612 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: deviate for fear of being blamed for a loss. Wise, 613 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: Mike sent us an audio file first other voice on 614 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: our show. It's just so exciting. Take it away, Mike, Hello, 615 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: Annie and Laura. It's Mike, fan of this show. Anyways, 616 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: I guess i'd bring in the Navy toast for consideration. 617 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: It's it's an old toast. I don't know how much 618 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: it has to do with the modern Navy, since it 619 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,399 Speaker 1: tends to be more of a beer drinking navy than 620 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: it is a rum drinking navy, but we got it 621 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: for the British and it still sticks around. But anyways 622 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 1: that it goes like this, it's may your ancor be tight, 623 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: may your cork be loose, may your rumb be spiced, 624 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: and may your compass be true. And there's different ways 625 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: of delivering that. I tend to like the quick up 626 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: down rhythm one that get it over with quick and 627 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: let's get to the festivities. But it's a may your 628 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: ancor be tight, your cork loose, your RUMs spiced, and 629 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: your compass true. And there's other ways of doing it too. 630 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: You could have kind of ah the old church one 631 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,479 Speaker 1: where the speaker he gives the verses of one and three, 632 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: and the crew gives the verses of three and four. 633 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: That's a kind of like a reply type thing. But anyways, 634 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: I thought I would bring that in. It's it's an 635 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: old toast. It's a it's a good one. It makes 636 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,360 Speaker 1: its rounds once in a while through the navy from 637 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,880 Speaker 1: Jordan's here's two tall ships and too small ships, and 638 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: to all the ships on the sea, but the best 639 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: ships of friendships. So here's to you and me. Oh yeah, Lilia, 640 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: or perhaps Liliah. I hope I'm not mispronouncing your name 641 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,360 Speaker 1: too badly. It wrote in about the toasting tradition in 642 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: Austria of not clinking your glass. The tradition applies to 643 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: beer in when the revolution failed against the Habsburgs and 644 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: thirteen were executed. Supposedly, Austrians celebrated in Vienna by toasting 645 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: and clinking their beer glasses. You can say a toast, 646 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: but not clink your beer glass. In my family, we 647 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 1: tapped the beer three times on the table. Cheers to 648 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: a happy New Year from Jared. My wife's family is Bohemian, 649 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: check and Polish, and no one is certain from which 650 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: culture this phrase comes from, but everyone assumes that it 651 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,279 Speaker 1: is likely a mispronunciation of one of the languages that 652 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,359 Speaker 1: no one in her family speaks any longer. They could 653 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: be wrong, of course, and that it is in actuality 654 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: total nonsense, but that doesn't stop everyone from carrying on 655 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: the tradition. When raising a glass for a toast, everyone 656 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: shouts in unison and he typed it out phonetically. Here 657 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: we go, yep, tom screegee, and a hoya hoya. I 658 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: love that it could be total nonsense. Yeah, Syllable in 659 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 1: the City wrote in on Twitter. Afrikaans, we often toast 660 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: with laval varjeval. Let it fall where it wants. I'm 661 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: not entirely sure of the origin, but probably you wouldn't 662 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: have to apologize for spilling, as that's the drink's desire. 663 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: Fellow I wanted to Hillary on Facebook wrote in regards 664 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,320 Speaker 1: to the toasting episode, my grandmother's favorite saying has always 665 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 1: been to keep the love in the loving cup. When 666 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: you're wrong, admitted when you're right, shut up. I love that. Yeah, 667 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: that's great, And Kristen sent us on Twitter to the 668 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 1: men who love us, to the men who have yet 669 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 1: to meet us, and to the sorry bastards who lost 670 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,319 Speaker 1: us made this be our year friends and I made 671 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,839 Speaker 1: it up in college tests sent in one for us 672 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,839 Speaker 1: with an audio clip. Hey, I'll love your podcast. Um, 673 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: here to toast for you. I'm half Columbian. I'm re 674 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 1: learning Spanish again now, so I'm going to try these out. 675 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry for my shoddy Spanish. Um. The first one 676 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: that I always heard growing up was st Health, money, 677 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:16,280 Speaker 1: and love. The other one is arriva abajo, which means 678 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,799 Speaker 1: up down center in so you raise your glass up, 679 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,800 Speaker 1: you lower it down, you put it to every you 680 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,840 Speaker 1: shoot it in the middle to everybody in the center, 681 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: and then throw means you drink it. So up jail 682 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,359 Speaker 1: and sent her a drink. Um. I always like that one. 683 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: That made me crack up when I was a kid. 684 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 1: So I hope that helps and I'll talk to you 685 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: guys later. By love the podcast. By yes, thank you 686 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,319 Speaker 1: so much. Everybody sent in these toasts. Yeah. Also, UM 687 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: shout out to a couple of people who, when I 688 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: asked for toasts on Twitter, gave us a couple of 689 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 1: toast puns. Existentialist on Assist said that their favorite toast 690 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,720 Speaker 1: was French, and Carol said, I have toast with peanut 691 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 1: butter and jelly for breakfast every mo morning. But I 692 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: do like a fine avocado toast for New Year's I 693 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,240 Speaker 1: might have some brishetta on toasted piguette, and Allison wrote, 694 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:12,760 Speaker 1: here's to bread, because without bread, we would not have toast. Oh, 695 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 1: y'all are our people. Yes, all of y'all are our people. Though, Yes, 696 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, Toast funds Real Toast. If you're listening 697 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,760 Speaker 1: to this before New Year's whenever your New Year's, maybe 698 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 1: Happy New Year's to you, and maybe you've got plenty 699 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: of toast to choose from. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you'd 700 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: like to write to us, you can. Our email is 701 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 1: food Stuff at how stuff works dot com. We're also 702 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,640 Speaker 1: on social media. We're on Facebook and Twitter at food 703 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,320 Speaker 1: stuff hs W. 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