The tradition of eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve has been around since the mid-1800s.
You might have heard that eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve is good luck, but you may not know why. The tradition of eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve has been around since the mid-1800s, but it wasn’t always just 12. The number of grapes eaten varies from region to region and even family to family. Some people eat one grape for each chime of the clock while others eat one grape for every year they are alive.
Where did the tradition come from?
According to some traditions, if you eat a grape every time the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, you will never have bad luck in your life. Others say that if you don’t eat all 12 grapes before the ball drops in Times Square, then you will have bad luck for an entire year. These traditions are rooted in ancient Roman and Greek superstitions about how numbers affect fate.
What does it mean?
There are a few different explanations as to what this tradition means and why it came about. One explanation is that each grape represents a month in the year, so eating them all means that you have had good luck all year long and won’t be visited by misfortune until next December 31st rolls around again.
