Many with Irish heritage prepare Corned beef and cabbage dinner on New Year’s day. It is associated with the fortune you should hope for in the coming year. Beef or pork is the meat of choice because unlike chickens these animals do not scratch in the dirt for their food.
Corned beef and cabbage
The luck you should wish for in the upcoming year is associated with eating corned beef and cabbage on New Year’s Day. Because these animals do not forage in the mud for food like chickens do, beef or pork is the preferred meat. It is said that eating chicken on New Year’s Day will set your destiny for the year to be one of scrounging for survival, which sounds awful to us. Cabbage is light green, like paper money. Pick up yours (the corned beef, not the cash) at Kincaids Meat Market. Who couldn’t use more of that?
Kincaids Meat Market, 5605 N. Illinois St., (317) 255-5497, kincaidsmeatmarket.com .