You have a few more hours to get your grapes!
Some social media users are spending the week leading up to New Year’s Day preparing to speed-eat a dozen grapes, sit under a table and run outside with a suitcase as soon as the clock strikes midnight to have a shot at good fortune next year.
This isn't an observance of one custom but, rather, the combination of various New Year's traditions — and TikTok users are desperate for all the good luck they can get heading into 2023. One of several videos in which TikTokers show off the results of their 2022 manifestations is @kiekeeks' post in which she shared that nine months after eating grapes under a table in the first minute of this yearThe tradition of eating one grape for each chime of the clock is mostly observed in Spain and some Latin American countries, but it has taken off on TikTok in the final week of 2022 as users share the love they found since devouring 12 grapes — usually under a table — within 60...
“Eating one grape at each of midnight’s 12 clock chimes guarantees you a lucky year — if and only if you simultaneously ruminate on their significance," according to