black eyed peas
New Year's luck
Black-eyed peas are legumes with a distinctive black spot on their pale surface, resembling an eye.
A staple of Southern American cuisine, they're traditionally eaten on New Year's Day for good luck: We always have black-eyed peas and collard greens on January first.
Also called cowpeas or black-eyed beans. (Capitalized Black Eyed Peas is the hip-hop group.)
- hip hopRhythmic spoken-word genre
- humpsRounded bodily protrusions
- legumesEdible pod-bearing plants
- southernToward the sunbelt
- cowpeasWarm-climate legume crop
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- Southern Foodfried chicken, collards, biscuits, grits, cornbread
- tropical foodsbanana, coconut, coconut milk, papaya, mango
- African foodjollof rice, fufu, pounded yam, jollof, masa
legume type
black eyed peaschickpeas
Beige edible legumes
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