The peas thread

[DrWilly]

[Neverna]

Peas be upon you, brother.

[DrWilly]

I’m a little perplexed that Mendy isn’t all over this thread… for reasons.

[misskit]

[cyrille]

I’m a little perplexed that Mendy isn’t all over this thread… for reasons.

You've started a thread about peas for someone else.

That must take a quite extraordinary level of boredom.

Were you reading Landreth's yachting thread?

[Troy]

I'm sat in a Bangkok taxi, which is boring. I vaguely remembered peas bread and had a google. Not only can you make bread with split-peas (dried peas), you can make with tinned peas as well.
I'm looking forward to mendip making bread with mushy peas.

[Mendip]

I feel a bit remiss not getting involved with this worthy thread, but I'm really busy just now getting loose ends cleared up before handing over the job tomorrow at crew change.

And this boat is a pea desert.

Unfortunately I've used up most of my pea material in the various food threads, but mushy pea bread sounds like a definite possibility. I have an unused bread maker that's been sitting in a cupboard at home for around 15 years so maybe it's time to take it out and dust it off?

I also have a pea T-shirt that I don't think has made an appearance on TD so far.

[pickel]

I also have a pea T-shirt that I don't think has made an appearance on TD so far.

I'm sure Dingle would love that.

[malmomike77]

^^ You've not made pea pesto either.

[DrWilly]

You've started a thread about peas for someone else.

I feel a bit remiss not getting involved with this worthy thread,

Unfortunately I've used up most of my pea material in the various food threads,

Who said it was about peas?

[Reg Dingle]

[david44]

I also have a pea T-shir

Surprise pea?

Luckily it'll come out in the wash, plenty of launderers in Suk, now what to do for an hour while it's through the wringer

[DrWilly]

^^ green owed.

he might be looking like that after his passport run to Bangkok next week.

[Shutree]

Users of the M25 around London were so fond of this graffiti that there was a petition to save it or reinstate it. I haven't been there for a while, it has been replaced, I was told.

[david44]

Chalfont Viaduct the sole Edwardian Bridge over the London Orbital loop

[Shutree]

Chalfont Viaduct the sole Edwardian Bridge over the London Orbital loop

Indeed. Built by the Great Western Railway. Brunel was already gone but his legacy lived on. Lives on still. I don't know how he felt about peas but he built some amazing stuff and it wasn't until nationalisation of the railways about 80 years after he died that the GWR principles passed too.

[Topper]

The only peas worth eating...

Blackeyed peas

[Mendip]

^^ Brunel designed the suspension bridge and SS Great Britain, both in Bristol.

I've heard that he loved his peas

[david44]

When I complained to the waiter about the pea and ham soup yesterday , he indicated somewaht unecessarily brusquely it's off the menu, I think he said peas off.

[Shutree]

^^ Brunel designed the suspension bridge and SS Great Britain, both in Bristol.

I've heard that he loved his peas

Without wanting to stray too far off the central issue of peas, I assume you are referring to the Clifton suspension bridge? Brunel did indeed design it although it was after his death that other engineers, including his son, came together, did some redesign and built it. More trivia, the Clifton suspension bridge reused the cables from an earlier Brunel suspension bridge, the original Hungerford bridge. Another suspension bridge of his is the one over the Tamar, a fascinating design that uses arches above the spans to hold the piers upright, rather than anchored cables. When you look at the things he built, which you can because many are still to be seen, like Paddington station and the Maidenhead bridge and the first tunnel under the Thames, he was quite an astonishing talent.

Loved his peas, too.

[Shutree]

Many times I have passed the village of Pease Pottage. I occasionally wondered what the village had to do with peas. Pease pudding is more of a northern dish, not often found down souf. Wiki doesn't have a clear explanation, only speculation. Pease pudding does look a bit like a muddy puddle:

Pease Pottage is also an old name for pease pudding. It has been said that the village name came from serving this food to convicts either on their way from London to the South Coast or from East Grinstead to Horsham although this seems implausible and it is not clear why convicts would travel along either route. The name Peaspottage Gate first appears on Budgen's Map of Sussex made in 1724 at the southern end of a road from Crawley where it met the Ridgeway, and is on the border of the parishes of Slaugham and Worth. This is prior to the turnpikes (1771), and so was not a toll gate. It was probably a gate between St Leonard's Forest and Tilgate Forest (part of Worth Forest), and probably a reference to soft muddy ground.

[Mendip]

^^ Interesting stuff, Shutree.

I was indeed referring to the Cifton Suspension Bridge. And don't forget Bristol Temple Meads Station, and Box Tunnel at Bath, at the time of opening the world's longest railway tunnel.

Brunel was a genius and it's probably no coincidence that he liked his peas... the high consumption of peas has often been linked to superior intelligence.

[hallelujah]

My last pea dish (before I went to Spain eating snails and squid for a week).

And it was mega.

Two things:

The glory of a chippy chips, peas, steak and kidney pudding and gravy cannot me measured; it's almost curry like in its joy.

You've gotta be a right West Country bumpkin to prefer garden peas over mushy.



Tis all.

[Troy]

^^ Pease Pottage used to be my turn off the M23 to go home when I lived in Horsham.
That feels like a lifetime ago.

[Mendip]

the high consumption of peas has often been linked to superior intelligence.

You've gotta be a right West Country bumpkin to prefer garden peas over mushy.

As they say, the exception proves the rule.