![]() Legends abound as to why this is done, but one I found quite interesting pertained to the Civil War. Today, however, they are associated with Southern cooking.īlack-eyed peas pack a lot of nutrition, like all beans.īlack-eyed peas are considered good luck food, especially when eaten on New Year’s Day in the South. They were cultivated and eaten in western Africa for centuries. Picture this though, according to one internet site, “Americans eat enough burgers to circle the earth 32 times every year”! 3īlack-eyed peas? They’re not even a runner up.īlack-eyed peas have a long history, going further back than our nation’s existence. 2 Since there are plenty of vegetarians in this country, that means someone is picking up the extra three a week. That’s three burgers a week for every single person. ![]() ![]() Apparently, we eat approximately 50 billion hamburgers a year. While we scarf down a lot of pizza, as you can see, we consume even more hamburgers. 1 It is, hands down, the favorite food choice for children ages 3-11. If you can’t relate to acres of land, consider that 350 slices of pizza are sold every second in the USA. If that is difficult to imagine, consider the estimate that 100 acres of pizza are eaten daily in this nation. Which of the three food items would you choose as comfort food? It is estimated that collectively, Americans eat 3 billion pizzas a year. However, I don’t think the amount of black-eyed peas consumed in the United States can even be compared to the amount of pizza or hamburgers we eat. Black-eyed peas are associated with soul comfort food.
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