New Years pork roast!!
This is a German custom of Pennsylania Dutch, of German descent.
Throughout history, the lowly cabbage has played side dish to the pig on New Year's Day, not because it bears a special significance, but because it's a tasty complement to pork. It's a traditional combination. Any Pennsylvania German worth his or her salt knows pork is served on New Year's Day because it brings good luck. With their snouts, pigs root forward, signifying progress, lore dictates, whereas chickens and turkeys scratch backward.
---"Eat 'sour cabbage' for a sweet year; Having sauerkraut on New Year's Day brings luck, some say,"
