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Eating black-eyed peas and collards on New Year's Day is a Southern tradition dating back to the Civil War. The idea is that black-eyed peas symbolize good luck, and collards represent money. The reason why it was black eyes and collards is that after Sherman March through the South, many Southerners had little to eat.Sherman troops had decimated the livestock and crops of the South. The Union soldiers thought black eyes and collards were not worth eating and did not bother with them. So you now know the real reason for the Southern tradition.