{"id":61670,"date":"2023-01-02T04:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=61670"},"modified":"2023-01-02T04:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:17:19","slug":"know-your-southern-history-why-we-eat-black-eyed-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/know-your-southern-history-why-we-eat-black-eyed-peas\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Southern History: Why We Eat Black-Eyed Peas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50311\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/csa-gif6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/identitydixie.com\/2022\/12\/31\/why-we-eat-black-eyed-peas\/\">Why We Eat Black-Eyed Peas<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Grandson (excitedly):\u00a0\u201cWait, I think I know!: was it black-eyed peas?\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2>Grandpa:\u00a0\u201cYes, that\u2019s right. Although our ancestors from those days usually called them by other names such as \u2018cornfield peas\u2019 or \u2018cow peas.\u2019\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2>Grandson:\u00a0\u201cWhy did they call them that?\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2>Grandpa:\u00a0\u201cThey called them cow peas because they\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grit.com\/farm-and-garden\/vegetables\/all-about-cowpeas-zm0z1809zcoo\/\">fed them to their cattle<\/a>\u00a0and other animals; some Southerners called them cornfield peas because they planted them in cornfields\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.growveg.com\/guides\/protect-your-soil-by-growing-winter-field-peas-and-beans\/#:~:text=Thankfully%20the%20best%20plants%20to,of%20roughage%20for%20soil%20structure.\">to keep the soil energized<\/a>\u00a0in those fields. Sometimes they planted rows of black-eyed peas in between rows of corn. Anyway, the northern army couldn\u2019t destroy all of the black-eyed peas in the South due to their great abundance. By \u201cabundance,\u201d I mean there were lots and lots of them in all parts of the South, dried and sacked, and stockpiled for feeding their farm animals.<\/h2>\n<h2>You see, black-eyed peas were thought by many people back then, both in the North and in the South, to be \u201canimal food,\u201d not fit for humans to eat. Since the Old South was an agrarian society, it had an abundance of farm animals of every sort, which of course had to be fed and taken care of, and black-eyed peas or corn field peas were a main food source for their animals.\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2>Never Forget and Celebrate Your Southern History.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48292\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/11\/confederate-soldiers-on-flag-randy-steele.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why We Eat Black-Eyed Peas &nbsp; Grandson (excitedly):\u00a0\u201cWait, I think I know!: was it black-eyed peas?\u201d Grandpa:\u00a0\u201cYes, that\u2019s right. Although our ancestors from those days usually called them by other names such as \u2018cornfield peas\u2019 or \u2018cow peas.\u2019\u201d Grandson:\u00a0\u201cWhy did they call them that?\u201d Grandpa:\u00a0\u201cThey called them cow peas because they\u00a0fed them to their cattle\u00a0and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,476,477,8448,6096,14779],"tags":[15461,1880,15462,8362,14009,14237,15463],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}