People keep calling in about sauerkraut and pork on New Year's. A little search on the topic reveals:

Sauerkraut and pork is a Pennsylvania Dutch custom. Pork symbolizes looking forward on the logic that "fowls scratch backward but pigs root forward."

Is also could have something to do with identity. In Civil War days, when the first Pennsylvania regiments reached Virginia, the natives called them "Sauerkraut Yankees." Pennsylvanians my not have liked it at the time--"Yankee" was a derogatory term in the Dutchman's as well as the Virginian's vocabulary--but they are proud of it today.

YECK!!!!sauerkraut!

Outstanding!
Thanks mstubble!

Superstition and this one all based on something as stupid as chickens scratching backwards and pigs rooting forward... Did the people thinking this up ever consider that the pigs were rooting in their own feces?

I don't care which side of a penny is showing...I'm not picking the filthy thing off the ground anyway. Broken mirrors, walking under ladders, blah blah blah. It's all pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

Dragonlady, how can you not like sauerkraut! I could just eat it all the time, then when my Mom makes if from scratch at Thanksgiving and Christmas (sigh).

Sauerkraut makes me want to hurl too.

I put sauerkraut on everything hot dogs, bratwurst, sandwiches (especially my favorite turkey, cheese, and sauerkraut). It's best though when it's hot! I don't know, maybe it's my German background. My wife doesn't like it either.

If you can't make your own saurkraut, then buy the kraut in the clear package in the refrigerated section of the supermarket. Don't get that crappy canned kraut. The taste is completely different!

I'm German too but,YECK! It tears my intestines to shreds.( I'll stop sharing now ).
My one grandma used to make hers with beer when she cooked it.I don't know what else tho.Stupid me was too interested in playing outside instead of learning her recipes.(kicking myself in the tush).

I love it....pork roast, sauerkraut, and potato dumplings
with gravy....MMMMMMMMMM !!!!

I pick up filthy pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters..I don't care what side is up! I keep hand cleaner in my vehicle and purse so I can take care of the germs. Besides, the change you get from a cashier is probably no more sanitary.

I save all loose change for a year, then cash it in.

I have no shame

I leave my tree up until whenever I get around to taking it down.

I don't eat a special meal on New Year's day.

I don't care what color the cat is that crosses my path.

I don't walk under ladders for safety reasons.

Guess I don't really believe in superstitions.

I'm with you mistress! And the whole groundhog thing? Of course there will be 6 more weeks of winter...it's only the beginning of February...hello?