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Reading - Eating for good luck

On New Year’s day, many people eat special foods for good luck in the new year.

Some Chinese people eat tangerines and oranges. Tangerine sounds like “luck”, and orange sounds like “wealth” in the Mandarin language.

In Greece and some other Mediterranean countries people eat pomegranates. pomegranates bring wealth in the new year.

In Spain and some Latin American countries, people eat 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve. One grape for good luck in each month of the new year.

At the end of the year in Sweden, people eat rice pudding with an almond inside. Everyone tries to find the almond for good luck in the new year.

On New Year’s day in South Korea people eat dduk guk - soup with rice cakes - for strength and health in the new year.

Some Americans from southern states eat black-eyed peas and rice with collard greens. The black-eyed peas are like coins and the greens are like dollar bills.