Watching the Mummers and smelling the pork and kraut in the crockpot is the only way to spend New Years day!

I didn't eat pork and kraut on New Year's Day in 2020. I'm really sorry, guys. I didn't think things would get that bad.

Kipferls out and Krauts on deck 👍🏻🎉

Your title was 143 characters long before your little quip about the character count minimum.

What's done is done, can't take it back now. No ragrets.

Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning. Jeesh!

I was grateful for the extra information. I was unaware of posting requirements. Lol.

Not a kraut fan, but hoping that a big pot of hoppin' john will bring some luck after the epic crappy year I've had!

This reminds me that I forgot to pick up sauerkraut when I was last at the store. New Year's is closing in, so I think I'll do that tomorrow.

Just finished making my sauerkraut in time for the weekend!

This guy didn’t have his pork and kraut this year

I picked up some after work today.

I actually had myself a a little scare though because I fell asleep almost immediately after getting home and had a dream I forgot the kraut, woke up in a panic to check and to my elation it was right there in the fridge.

Don't forget Pierogies as a side!

I like to make mulled cider on New Years Day. Apple Cider, Bourbon, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cloves, and Ginger. I swear I feel healthier after two glasses of that.

I always have pork in freezer and Kraut in fridge , I am a hot dog and kielbasa fan and eat something pickled or fermented every day ,and I think legally possession of fresh sauerkraut as a food group is required . Although guilty confession my G/F prefers my Gumbo for new years so I’ll actually be ragin at Cajun. I do have to go easy on the peppers for her unfortunately . Blessings to all of you “state mates “ even if we are a commonwealth .

I picked up a pork roast and sauerkraut a few days ago and I am ready for my New Year's meal! No one else in my house will eat it, but I am determined to have luck.

So you are the reason we had such a crappy two years? ;)

I remember having New Year's dinner with my in-laws and their extended family years ago. The family members hosting the meal made seafood. My wonderful MIL quietly fretted about breaking tradition and having bad luck in the new year. The seafood was really good, though.

I’m a bit lost here, but I’ll pass on eating a dead pig. They are more intelligent than dogs.

Agreed.

and more delicious too.

edit: guess I should've also made it obvious that I'm kidding and being sarcastic

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I hate both. Pork and sauerkraut is one tradition I always skip

Who did this to you?

Now why do we have pork as the first meal of the new year? What’s the old world logic? Why should you avoid chicken?

I was always told that we have pork because the pig’s snout points forward into the future for good luck. While a chicken scratches backwards into the past.

Now you all have this useless knowledge as well, cheers to a Happy New Year!

I was just told today that Filipinos won't eat any chicken on New Years because it would make their money fly away. Heard it from a couple Palauans, though, so might be inaccurate.

My family isn't originally from PA, at least not dutch (dad's from tx moms family is Irish). Pork and sauerkraut was one of those things I never knew about until I was dating someone in my twenties.

Always had eaten scrapple but that's as far as we went to being pa. I'm now married to a woman whose mom came from Mennonite/Amish origins. Her grandmother was my favorite person to talk to because she still spoke with a thick dutch accent. Still upset I'm the one that had to teach my wife how to cook and bake. Thats the best part of their community, the food.

I eat a can of ravioli and throw confetti on my bushes.

That’s my tradition - ham, collards, hopping John. But I’m a southern transplant.

I usually eat a few strings of sauerkraut symbolically but I also do not like sauerkraut. I consider myself an adventurous eater so it kind of annoys me that there's a common food that I don't like!

You hit 50 characters before the end of the first sentence.

Can we stop with the title 50 character bs? I see plenty of posts that aren’t 50 characters…

Hot dogs and kielbasa and saurekraut is my absolute favorite meal. I'll eat pork in there as well. Is it you have to eat it NY eve (after midnight) or as your first meal.of the year.

Look, I made double last year and it didn't do shit...other than give me the shits.

What does this mean? I’m from PA and have never heard of this

Taking your “joke” seriously, vegan sausage/pork is probably the best tasting meat substitutes available. No need to kill animals these days.

https://www.rd.com/article/why-do-people-eat-pork-and-sauerkraut-on-new-years/

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Think about the environmental impacts of have to make and transport meat alternatives, versus me walking out my front door and shooting a deer.

This sub specifically requires the title to be 50 characters. It’s a setting that the mods have on. It’s annoying when I’m just trying to post a photograph lol.

Can you suggest a good vegan kielbasa? Sausages are far easier to replicate within planting based ingredients, at least in my experience. Vegan breakfast sausage for instance is nearly identical to meat based.

I do what I can, where I can to change my own habits. Deer however should be mowed down like the common lawn. They are nothing but a destructive pest that happens to taste delicious.

Sure, but that's only because the number of hunters is low compared to the general population. Everyone living off of hunted deer wouldn't be sustainable.

Tofurkey has a kielbasa specific item it looks like - never tried. Yet Beyond Sausage is probably extremely close and I have had and they’re identical to meat

You can scroll down, there are plenty of other posts without a paragraph in the title.

Maybe it has to do with the app or posting from the web? On the official app it says it requires a 50 character minimum and won’t let you post until you meet that limit. But I do see what you’re talking about with other post.

Is this just a PA thing? Feels like a very PA thing.

Kinda, but also a diffuse German thing, so not just PA.

No your not! I call foul!