When Did You Last ...

[sunny-dave]

... pod a pea?

Just had a sublime lunch of freshly podded peas, spuds that were growing in my garden less than 5 minutes before they started cooking and some artisan (read 'quite expensive') sausages.

Nothing else (apart from a *** of butter) - just perfect.

But I did then think "how many people pod peas these days" and even "do kids know what a pea pod looks like".

So - when did you last pod a pea?

Dxx

[ eccles - your answer is sort of a given :+) ]

[Slapshot]

lolz...

[Canary42]

////"do kids know what a pea pod looks like". ////

I expect so, mange tout now being quite common in this country.

[shoota]

Who brute?

[Slapshot]

You obviously Shoota...... it was though of starting off with a big one... ;0)

[paddywak]

Last week.The BiL is really into gardening,especially as he now has a six year old granddaughter who has decided she is going to be his "apprentice".We visit at least once a week and always come home with a bag of goodies

[boxtops]

I can't remember, but there were some peas still-in-pods for sale in Morrisons last week, it looked quite unusual! We like mangetout so you can eat the lot.

[Brinjal]

I grow peas every year. We have a short growing season here so was about 4 weeks ago

[Old_Geezer]

I remain unconvinced that the flavour makes it all worthwhile. By the time veg has been sufficiently cooked so it has lost that awful salady taste, the decent stuff is fairly subtle anyway. A large nob of butter may improve things but plays hell with the diet. Anyway if anyone is sending out invites I'll be around to sample ;-)

[gness]

When I managed to wrench them off the daughter who loved to sit in the garden podding and eating the peas.....few made it to the kitchen....

Try pat of butter next time, Dave.....unless we Irish decide to complain....☺

[tonyav]

Don't think that I've podded a pea from a pod since I was a kid.

[murraymints]

My oh eats them by the pound ...shells and eats while watching telly...better than crisps etc !

[Hypognosis]

I am too juvenile to read this thread without laughing. Mercy, please!

[DrFilth]

i think it is over 40 years since i have seen one

[Dee Sa]

I shucked some at the weekend and they sure taste a lot different to the frozen ones. As a kid my dad used to grow runner beans in our back garden they were picked & cooked & served immediately with a *** of butter and crusty bread [ made by my mum], what a treat. Now I do exactly the same in the same garden but theres only me to enjoy and I have to buy the bread.

[gness]

Dee has rude butter too.....try pat.....xx

[tonyav]

Rude butter has many uses, gness !.

[tonyav]

I tried pat once, gness, she rebuked me though.

[Peaspeculiars]

..pod? ....Peas? ! ..scurries away before anyone tries to pod her..

Just podded my first beans though if that counts? But yep, agree that shelling your own peas is definitely worth the effort (butter and salt though, no mint) :o)

[sunny-dave]

Sorry - couldn't resist ...

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