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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
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- >> I've never heard of 'English Peas' in all my life. Sorry. Must be
- >> an American thang.
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- >Neither had Judith heard of them, but she had eaten them all her life.
- >You probably have too. It's the name that I discovered to be regional --
- >not the pea. Cans of them in grocery stores say "sweet peas." I've never
- >heard them called anything but English peas by normal people, though.
- > --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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- What else would one call canned peas? Those mushy gray-green pellets
- taste *exactly* like the reputation of English 'cooking'.
-
- I'd never heard that appellation either, but its derivation (once you
- describe the foul little things) is crystal-clear.
-
- [I was stuck at a non-alcoholic New Year's party -- yuck.]
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