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Meats
Traditional New Year's Day meal:[citation needed] black-eyed peas, ham hock, and pepper sauce


Country-fried steak, with baked beans and mashed potatoes with white gravy.


Breaded and fried fatback.
Country fried steak[3], also known as "chicken fried steak"[4] (beef deep-fried with a crisp flour or batter coating, traditionally served with brown gravy)
Fried chicken (fried in grease with seasoned flour)[1]
Fried fish[1] (any of several varieties of fish, including catfish, whiting[5], porgies, bluegill, sometimes battered in seasoned cornmeal)
Pork for flavoring of vegetables and legumes, gravys/sauces or as a meat, especially:
ham and bacon.
ham hocks[4][6] (typically smoked)
pigs feet[4] (slow cooked, sometimes pickled and often eaten with a vinegar based sauce).
fatback (fatty, cured, salted pork, especially the first layers of the back of the pig primarily used in slow-cooking as a seasoning).
offal, such as chitterlings or "chitlins" (the cleaned and prepared intestines of pigs, slow cooked and also often eaten with a vinegar-based sauce or sometimes parboiled, then battered and fried) or hog maws[1] (the muscular lining of the pig's stomach, sliced and often cooked with chitterlings).[1]
Poultry giblet, such as chicken liver and gizzards.[4][6]
Turkey neck bones
[edit]Vegetables

The beans, "greens" and other vegetables are often cooked with ham[citation needed] or pork parts for flavor.
Black-eyed peas[4] (often mixed into Hoppin' John and other types of rice and beans dishes).[1]
Various greens, including collard greens, turnip greens, and mustard greens
Okra (vegetable which is native to West Africa, and is eaten fried or stewed and is a traditional ingredient of gumbo. It is sometimes cooked with tomatoes, corn, onions and hot peppers)
Sweet potatoes, often parboiled, sliced, then adorned with butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla or other spices, and baked; commonly called "candied sweets" or "candied yams"[4]
[edit]Breads & Grains

Hushpuppies
Biscuits (a shortbread similar to scones, commonly served with butter, jam, jelly, sorghum, cane syrup, or gravy; some use to wipe up or "sop" liquids from a dish)
Cornbread[3] (a quickbread often baked or made in a skillet, commonly made with buttermilk and seasoned with bacon fat; inspired by the great availability of corn in the Americas and by Native American cultures. Particular variations: hoecake [1], a type of cornbread which is very thin in texture, and fried in cooking oil in a skillet, whose name is derived from field hands' often cooking it on a shovel or hoe held to an open flame; hushpuppies[1], balls of cornmeal deep-fried, usually with salt and diced onions).
Rice (varieties from Africa were introduced into the U.S in the late 17th century and knowledge of rice cultivation by Africans fostered its widespread production in the U.S.)[7]
Grits (a cooked coarsely ground cornmeal of Native American origin)
[edit]Beverages

Sweet Tea (Traditional Tea with Sugar)
Lemonade
[edit]Desserts

A slice of sweet potato pie
Sweet potato pie [1][5] (parboiled sweet potatoes, then pureed, spiced, and baked in a pie crust, similar in texture to pumpkin pie).
Pie or cobbler made of fruits typically found in the southern U.S., especially peach [5]