There was a young girl from Dimboola
Who always ate peas with a ruler.
When folks cried, "Use your knife!"
She said, "Not on your life,
The steel only makes them get cooler."
For a long time, I have yearned for a feed of fresh shelled peas. I've tried in all of the local shops but can't find any peas, apart from snow peas . I asked in the major supermarkets and was told, "No one wants to waste time shelling peas these days."
What a lovely way to waste time!! Sitting with cousins on my Grandmother's veranda, shelling peas for Christmas dinner into a large bowl. Every now and then, Nana would call from the kitchen , "Keep whistling". While we whistled, we couldn't eat the peas!
In the mid sixties, frozen vegetables hit the supermarket shelves; just a few --- peas, carrots and corn, from memory. They were very expensive which showed they were a luxury so I normally didn't buy them. For a "night off", instead of buying fast food (of which there was little), I would buy a small packet of frozen vegies and feel quite decadent! It wasn't until the seventies before I could buy any frozen food without feeling guilty; this was because we were in a tiny town that had very little fresh vegetables.
Long story short ------ I bought a packet of seeds and we sowed them along the fence on July 17th. Two days later, we had 1" of rain, followed by a week of warm sunshine so the little green leaves have all stuck their heads up. It's going to be a long while before there are peas to eat and I'll be waiting daily, smacking my chops!!
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