Word Hunt-Please help the OED

I didn't see bling bling in that list, Joe, but what do I know?

Mushy peas? never used it, but pease porridge hot, yes!

My way of marking!

I started saying mushy peas in September of 2004 when I moved to England and ate at my first "chippie" and had fish and chips with mushy peas. They are kind of a neon green mess of mashed up peas - and they are awesome, in mho. But then I like peas.

Mushy peas...
In Newfoundland they're an essential part of a Jigs dinner. I'll bet that one will be easy to find. There has to be some old recipe books floating around, somewhere.

My dad had a bomber jacket from WWII, and certainly discussed it before '63. Alas, I don't think I have anything on that in writing.

Trying to think now, but I remember calling them "flight jackets" until more recently.

And someone please explain why mashing peas makes them taste any better.


Joe(You'll sit there till you eat those peas...... and don't mush around like that.)Nation

Mushy peas are not mashed peas. They are, first, a specific variety of pea (marrowfat) and second, they are boiled to the traditional UK or Irish level of doneness known as al denture. They just come out mushy.

al denture

hee hee.


So, apparently or obviously or both, Brits have been boiling up marrowfat peas (marrowfat is about as wonder a redundancy as I've seen in a while) for several hundred generations, haven't they? If you stumbled onto a tribe of blue assed Picts a while back, wouldn't you look into their cookpot and find a bubbling green mass staring back at you? So when did people start calling marrowfat peas mushy peas and when did someone first write it down?

Be the first A2Ker to solve the mystery....

Joe(How much rabbit is in Welsh rabbit?)Nation

Joe

Unfortunately, five-year old children were not writing it down.

Ah. A clue. Somewhere in England in a dusky attic box is a first grader's composition entitled "What we had for supper last night."

I have heard it called 'Lancashire Cavier' (or such).

The point being that it was on the show 'Heartbeat' and said by the wife of that copper (long before she carked it). I have no problem with that, but 'chavs'? What's all THAT about?

Yipes! Are you speaking English? What is it about chavs??