graham wrote:
>sf wrote:
>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> I do love fresh peas though and can rarely find them for sale. I can find
>>> Sugar Snap or Snow but not the Garden type. Has anyone seen or tried these?
>>> I don't remember the brand.
>>
>> I see them during the summer every year, no I haven't tried them
>> because they look like full size (mature) peas to me - which I hate.
>> I eat petit peas and that's it. Those other things are too mealy for
>> me.
>>
>That's because they were too old when you bought them. I worked in a
>canning factory for 2 summers when I was at uni. After harvesting them,
>the peas had to arrive at the plant within a very limited time. If they
>were late, they were condemned as animal food. It was the same for the
>freezing facility in another area.
>Graham

Peas are like corn, soon as they're havested their sugars turn to
starch. How long ago did you work at a cannery? Nowadays produce is
flash frozen in the field, the factory arrives by trailor, goes field
to field during harvesting season.