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On 2015-12-05 4:41 PM, Saint George wrote:
> On 05/12/2015 05:23 am, wrote:
>> On Friday, December 4, 2015 at 9:06:15 PM UTC-8, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> One of which was raw peas. Out of the pod and in a bag. I did not
>>> buy them
>>> for these reasons. There were so few peas in that bag, I could have
>>> easily
>>> eaten them all by myself in one meal. And the price was $4.89. Plus
>>> the
>>> facts that they are not in season and they were out of the pod. How
>>> fresh
>>> could they really be?
>>>
>>> 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.

>>
>> South of the Mason-Dixon, we call them English peas.
>>

> Well ****ing STOP calling them that...
>
> Just call them FRENCH peas, after your greatest ally...



Wouldn't that be Freedom peas after France refused to be dragged into a
useless war?