Can grapes bring you luck? Spaniards believe so, and at midnight on New Year's Eve all across the country it's a race to gobble 12 grapes all before the first minute of the year passes.

“We don’t do it for, like, wheat or barley ... Further, despite domestication, there still are wild grapes out there. Although those ancestral grapevines produce small bitter grapes ...

However, historians have said that the tradition actually started in 1880, when well-to-do Madridians wanted to copy the French who drank champagne and ate grapes on the last day of the year.