Stirring the Pot with Hoppin’ John

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This dish of rice & beans simmered with smoked pork has become a New Year’s Day tradition – but how did it start? Anney and Lauren spill the hypothetical history of hoppin’ john.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Savor,
0:10.3	prediction of IHeart Radio.
0:11.4	I'm Annie Reese.
0:11.9	And I'm Lauren Boglebaum.
0:13.2	And today we have an episode for you about Hopin' John.
0:17.7	Yes.
0:19.0	Which I'm curious, listeners, if some of you don't know what that is.
0:24.1	Yeah. We living in Georgia hear some about it, at the very least. Certainly on our travels, we have run into it.
0:34.4	We did talk about it, I believe, in our round-up episode of our Asheville trip.
0:41.8	We did. And I actually searched out to see if that was still on the menu of the place we were eating.
0:51.1	Oh, yeah.
0:51.8	It was not. Oh, oh, interesting.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:55.2	Yeah.
0:59.3	I just wanted to see how it compared to what I've now learned.
1:04.3	But yes, I think I know the answer.
1:07.7	But was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren?
1:08.6	Yes. We just had a new year dawn upon us, and Hop and John is, in some
1:16.6	places, a traditional New Year's Day food. So here we are. Here we are. I'll say I don't have a lot of
1:25.2	experience with Hop and John, and especially after doing this research, I don't have a lot of experience with Hop and John, and especially after doing this research, I don't have a lot of experience with traditional Hopin John.
1:33.7	But I've spoken about before, I do, I hesitate to even say similar because people yell at me.
1:42.3	But I do something that I would say is in a similar
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