The now-viral social media trend originates from the Spanish New Year’s Eve tradition known as “uvas de la suerte”, which translates as “the twelve grapes of luck”. The tradition dates ...

"Las doce uvas de la suerte ... that eating 12 grapes on New Year's Eve brings good fortune. The tradition started in the 1880s among the proletariat Spanish as a way to mock or imitate the ...

Uvas de la suerte, or the 12 lucky grapes, may have started in the 1880s, when Madrid's "bourgeoisie" put their own spin on the "French custom of drinking Champagne and eating grapes on New Year's ...