New Year’s Day Tradition calls for cooking “black-eyed peas, hog head, a whole hog head now, pig tails, pigs feet.”
By 1960, the Nation of Islam had an estimated membership of 50,000 to 70,000 people. Converts removed pork and alcohol from their diet and ate one meal a day. They abstained from gambling, smoking, drinking, overeating, and buying on credit.
