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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:44:38 -0600
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- From: Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: English peas
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- >
- > I don't know the answer to the question of black-eyed vs purple-hull. But
- > I sure wish I could find some good lady peas like the ones in my childhood --
- > the ones people walked through residential areas selling early on summer
- > mornings, hollering "fresh lady peas." Those sounds came not long after
- > the clinky sounds as the milkman delivered the milk and took away the old
- > bottles.
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- In our neighborhood the cry was "Fresh peas....already shelled." They
- were usually purple-hulled peas, and the old man who sold them drove a wagon
- filled with bushel baskets of peas and extra things like watermelons and
- maybe strawberries.
- ndh (who wouldn't mind experiencing one of those days again)
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