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Re: Overrated food

Postby Busybee » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:54 am

A time and place for them Moira, I enjoy them with fish and chips at the seaside, but don’t have them at any other time. Known locally as Yorkshire caviar!

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Suffs » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:17 am

Mushy peas with boiled salted Hand of Pork .and lots of English mustard .. food of the Gods. :yum

Or even better ... Pease Puddin ......... when's the last time you had that?
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Re: Overrated food

Postby Earthmaiden » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:20 am

mistakened wrote:Has anyone mentioned Mushy Peas, that is a dish that has no purpose. Moira

I think we might have been grateful for them in the sparse days of winter if there was little else and we had no means to get anything else. Likewise today if it was them or nothing. They are quite nourishing.

I am so very fortunate never to have to have been glad of them. If any gets near lovely fish and chips it is carefully scraped off :).

That would probably be my dinner from hell, Suffs :lol:. Swimming in salty juice to finish it off?

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Pampy » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:20 am

Mushy peas - lovely with fish and chips or a home made pie!

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Stokey Sue » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:30 am

I like mushy peas occasionally, but here in the south you get a tiny little ramekin, a sauce quantity not a veg quantity.

Now that really is is pointless

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Re: Overrated food

Postby scullion » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:54 am

i keep a couple of tins of mushy peas in the cupboard, usually. they aren't eaten as they are but as a very quick pea soup (with additions).
i last had peas pudding as a child...
it never occurred to inflict it on my family - i love them!

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Re: Overrated food

Postby KeenCook2 » Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:16 pm

Ashamed to say I've never had pease pudding :oops:

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Sloe-Gin » Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:45 pm

You can keep the doughnuts, cakes, brioche, sweet pancakes, chocolate icecream, mushy peas, peas pudding and tomato sauce.
I have never thought of myself as a fussy eater, till I read this thread!! :lol:

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Earthmaiden » Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:09 pm

I didn't think I was until I joined the various boards we've been on either! Most of the things I like least are things we had at home when I was very young. My trouble with pease pudding, split pea soup etc is that I really hate the texture of mashed peas. Marrowfat particularly but even garden peas. When you see a nice menu and it has crushed peas ...why?!

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Re: Overrated food

Postby karadekoolaid » Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:21 pm

Agree about the mushy peas, Moira. Vastly over-rated :lol:
A bit like jellied eels. :vomit

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Suffs » Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:22 pm

karadekoolaid wrote:.....Vastly over-rated :lol:
A bit like jellied eels. :vomit


Please may I have your share? :newhuggy :newhuggy :newhuggy

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Re: Overrated food

Postby MagicMarmite » Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:13 pm

I love mushy peas and Pease pudding, never tried jellies eels, never had the chance to.

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Re: Overrated food

Postby slimpersoninside » Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:15 pm

Suffs wrote:
karadekoolaid wrote:.....Vastly over-rated :lol:
A bit like jellied eels. :vomit


Please may I have your share? :newhuggy :newhuggy :newhuggy


Take mine too please Suffs :lol: .

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Badger's Mate » Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:31 pm

Take mine too please Suffs


Hold on! :D

Aside from eels, I like pulses in all their forms. I don't think I'd eaten mushy peas until a few years ago but pease pudding and pea soup were very much staples of my childhood and something I still make today. A Goddaughter lives in Stourport and the local chippy does pea fritters. We've always got a tin or two of mushy peas in the cupboard now.

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Re: Overrated food

Postby PatsyMFagan » Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:17 pm

Suffs wrote:
karadekoolaid wrote:.....Vastly over-rated :lol:
A bit like jellied eels. :vomit


Please may I have your share? :newhuggy :newhuggy :newhuggy


Fight you for them Suffs ! ... well at least when they stop being an endangered species :roll: :lol: :yum :yum :yum

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Lusciouslush » Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:24 pm

Now then ......now then................!

Proper mushies have to be done with dried/soaked peas - it's trad. in Lancashire folks - so woebetide (sp ?!?!) & all that......!!

I had never had them until I met The Lushly......wasn't - & still not a huge fan - himself luvs 'em - especially with pies - vinegar has to be involved....!

Eels..?!?! smoked ? try stoping me :yum :yum :yum

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Re: Overrated food

Postby WWordsworth » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:03 pm

It's very Derbyshire to serve mushy peas with mint sauce.
As a native Lancastrian, married to a Derbeian I consider it sacrilege.

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Amber » Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:14 pm

I love mushy peas (properly made or not), and I love pease pudding (both canned and fresh). As a child, we also had it served hot too. And also, although I rarely get to have them, is it black peas? From Saddleworth area? Lovely.

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Re: Overrated food

Postby Stokey Sue » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:19 pm

WWordsworth wrote:It's very Derbyshire to serve mushy peas with mint sauce.
As a native Lancastrian, married to a Derbeian I consider it sacrilege.

I was taught to do that by a local friend in Whitby, so Yorkshire too, I was initially surprised by mint sauce on tables in a chippy
Lusciouslush wrote:Eels..?!?! smoked ? try stoping me
I absolutely love them - and I’m not a huge fan of smoked food in general, though fishy might be the exception

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Re: Overrated food

Postby karadekoolaid » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:36 pm

Smoked eels are absolutely another thing. Lovely. But jellied? Nooooo! :lol: :lol:

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