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  2. Black peas - Wikipedia

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    Black peas, also called parched peas or dapple peas, are cooked purple-podded peas (Pisum sativum var. arvense [1]).They are a traditional Lancashire dish usually served with lashings of malt vinegar, and traditionally on or around Bonfire Night (5 November).

  3. Guy Fawkes Night: What those fireworks and bonfires are ... - AOL

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    Also called Fireworks Night or Bonfire Night, this autumn tradition has been a staple of the British calendar for the past 400 years. ... there’s also a tradition of eating black peaspeas ...

  4. Bonfire Night - Wikipedia

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    A Christmas Eve celebration bonfire in Louisiana, United States. Bonfire Night is a name given to various yearly events marked by bonfires and fireworks. [1] These include Guy Fawkes Night (5 November) in Great Britain; All Hallows' Eve (31 October); May Eve (30 April); [2] Midsummer Eve/Saint John's Eve (23 June); [3] the Eleventh Night (11 July) among Northern Ireland Protestants; and the ...

  5. Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia

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    Guy Fawkes masks have proved popular and some of the more quirky bonfire societies have replaced the Guy with effigies of celebrities in the news—including Lance Armstrong and Mario Balotelli—and even politicians. The emphasis has moved. The bonfire with a Guy on top—indeed the whole story of the Gunpowder Plot—has been marginalised.

  6. New Year's tradition to eat 12 grapes or black-eyed peas for luck

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    For the black-eyed peas: 2 Italian sausage links, uncased. 1 medium yellow onion, chopped (about 1 cup) 1 clove garlic, minced (a scant 1 tablespoon) 3 cups chicken stock.

  7. It took Texas to make America swallow the idea of lucky New Year’s black-eyed peas. More than 85 years ago, in 1937, an East Texas promoter put the first national marketing campaign behind what ...

  8. Bonfire Night (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, Bonfire Night may refer to: Guy Fawkes Night , in Great Britain and some Commonwealth nations (5 November) Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' evening"), a celebration observed in many countries, on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day, corresponding to the Celtic festival of ...

  9. Why do we eat black-eyed peas on New Year's? - AOL

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    Americans eat black-eyed peas for New Year's to bring about good fortune in the coming year. But that's the short answer. The long one involves a shared family tradition that celebrates the legume ...