COLUMBIA, S.C. — Many people are rushing to stores for the new year's last-minute essential meal items - a new year and old traditions.
"Man, I got some ham, some cornbread, some black-eyed peas, some collard greens," Johnie Robinson said.
They're traditions to bring good luck and more in the new year.
"To have money in the new year and your Hoppin' John is for good luck. And then you're also supposed to have some stewed tomato and I can't remember what that's for," Edye Moran said.
Traditions like these start young for many.
"Black-eyed peas and collards," young Cannon Lovelace said, admitting he didn't know why he was eating it yet.
The Piggly Wiggly on Devine Street was full of people grabbing for the greens and peas. While clearing the past year, people are cooking up what's next for the year ahead.
"2024 I'm-a change a whole lot in my life. 'Cause, you know, I've been a bad boy in 2023; I'm-a change my whole life in 2024," Johnie Robinson said.
Some haven't gotten as far on their plans but are working to share prosperity and wealth this year.
"I haven't written down or thought about my resolutions, but I'll always have that," Edye Moran said. "Any other tradition, no, that's about it, but I like to try to invite my family over so they can also have all those things.