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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:29:12 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
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- > I've never heard of 'English Peas' in all my life. Sorry. Must be
- > an American thang.
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- Neither had Judith heard of them, but she had eaten them all her life.
- You probably have too. It's the name that I discovered to be regional --
- not the pea. Cans of them in grocery stores say "sweet peas." I've never
- heard them called anything but English peas by normal people, though.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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