Life Eating for luck on New Year’s: Why foods from black-eyed peas to grapes promise prosperity December 31, 2020December 30, 2022 Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY Comments Off on Eating for luck on New Year’s: Why foods from black-eyed peas to grapes promise prosperity What makes foods like grapes, black-eyed peas and noodles lucky? The answer has to do with symbolism and superstition.