Happy New Year readers. I hope the year ahead is full of promises fulfilled and absent any regrets. That said, I do have one regret already this year: I didn’t spend the first day of 2012 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Why? In a word, barbecue. In two words, free barbecue.
According to an article in the Fayetteville Observer, 3,000 to 4,000 people were expected to attend a “traditional and free Southern New Year’s Day meal of black-eyed peas, collard greens, barbecue and local politics at the Crown Expo Center on East Mountain Drive on Sunday.” The local tradition dates to the early 1970s and is still going strong four decades later. Sounds to me like a tradition other cities in NC need to copy…
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BBQ Jew 
The follow-up article on the event: http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/01/02/1146837?sac=Local