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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:47:29 -0600
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- From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: English peas
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- On Fri, 1 Jan 1993, Rashmi wrote:
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- > right? Why not get the frozen hulled ones and do it yourself? Or does this
- > Le Sueur stuff involve something more complicated?
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- Frozen Le Sueur peas are like hard little BB's with no remorse. Cooking
- them makes them hot litle B's. They suck el maximo.
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- The canning process adds a lot of salt, which is Good, makes them soft and
- mooshy, another Good Thing, and turns them a sort of grayish-green, which
- is the One True Color for Peas. I don't know why I like it, I just do.
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- -abh
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