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[Globaltruth]

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Everybody's talkin about zenism, soupism, dronism, birdism, Rita Heyworth, gravelation, Ian Russell, jazz migration......all we are saying is give R3 a chance.

You're wasted on this site lat - when are you getting your own show?

[Lateralthinking1]

Now that's what I call a party!

[johncorrigan]

She makes CERTAIN they have their fiddles in hand and wooden clogs upon their feet.

In reality they peal or peel in fits of laughter with sprays of spit on occasions and with a quick sprint to the water closet.

How do you manage to peel mushy peas, SE?

[Globaltruth]

How do you manage to peel mushy peas, SE?

Do you honestly mean to say that you don't peel your mushy peas JC? I know things are tough over the Border, but I didn't realise you had degenerated this far. I shall despatch a manservant armed with pea-peelers to save your poor plaid-clad souls. (And where is McG?).

By the way here is the only song I can find on the topic (and you do need Spotifly)

http://open.spotify.com/track/1nfvyscz4gGwHpMWt17v2W

Step forward Jim Wearne, this is your moment in the sun. Well, actually in a large bowl full of greyish-green gloop. Wasn't he an author? Ah, no that was Graham Greene.

[johncorrigan]

<<I shall despatch a manservant armed with pea-peelers to save your poor plaid-clad souls.>>.

Mushypea peelers - ours normally bear truncheons.

[sigolene euphemia]

How do you manage to peel mushy peas, SE?

tis an art. well och aye a craft .. .. as in I had a schnauzer who loved peeled grapes, it is an acquired craft of hands and adoration and love of mankind and canine. Just apply to well a fresh pea, I suppose...and play the music that our fellow message boarder is off retrieving for mushy peas...

sigolene euphemia

nota bene .. yes she plays her violin / fiddle for nearly eleven years now and nearly all her friends play a stringed instrument

[johncorrigan]

That Jim Wearne needs wider circulation, Global - PS will get his name about - hope SE can get to hear it she'll love it.

[sigolene euphemia]

That Jim Wearne needs wider circulation, Global - PS will get his name about - hope SE can get to hear it she'll love it.

Sending it on to Laurie Brown of the Signal CBC radio2

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

.....it's Friday, man, Friday so it must be fish

[sigolene euphemia]

happy eating,
sigolene euphemia

[Simon]

Nice looking fish - but where's the parsley sauce?

[Globaltruth]

and, whilst you're eating you can listen to some genu-wine c-shanties...

[johncorrigan]

A strange thing happened to me at the weekend walking along the Thames, just after we passed William Morris' house - we all headed into a pub overlooking said river (weather positively Mediterranean, by the way - 10 degrees at least) and I had some fish and chips with my beer. Asked my pal, 'What's this green mash they've given me - avocado? with fish?'. 'That's mushy peas,' said he- so that's what the talk was about! - I thought they'd be hot - basically it's a kind of Pea Pâté - or did I experience some southern concoction masquerading as the real thing? - I think I should be told.

[Lateralthinking1]

Sounds about right. I've only had them al fresco when living in the north. It was normally when reeling back from this, one of my favourite places in the 1980s, sadly bulldozed in 1994:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79893903@N00/5316219899/in/pool-50567025@N00/

http://imagesofyork.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-bull-part-of-york-history.html

[Simon]

Not pea pate - or shouldn't have been! - but it's true that the quality varies a lot between chippys. Really great mushy peas are superb - a wonderful taste and consistency and excellent with f&c. But the mass-produced cheap crap that some places - especially in cities, I'm afraid - serve, is best avoided IMO.