Peas

In Today's Issue

Shelling Peas
Pea Facts ( I kid you not ! )
Random Joke of the Day
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Submissions
Finish with a Song

Shelling Peas

It was another day with nothing else to do

Than to shell garden peas.

Each pea I free from its organic bed

Clears the clouds from my dark head

The pod it pops a party favour

Releasing smell and green flavor

I can eat them raw uncooked and crude

A vegetable cannibal munched and chewed

I thank the stars that my worries melt

With this small action of aggression dealt

The green that’s given from the soil

As simple pea I pod, not toil

And in the end, I bring them to birth

From garden muck a muddy earth

To feed me nutrition and goodness true

To change my colour to green from blue

It was another day with nothing else to do

Than to shell garden peas.

Neville Raper - Nov 2016

Pea Facts

• The Latin name for peas is pisum sativum.
• The first peas were frozen by Clarence Birdseye in the 1920s.
• On average everyone in Britain eats nearly 9,000 peas per year.
• The world record for eating peas is held by Janet Harris of Sussex who, in 1984, ate 7175 peas one by one in 60 minutes using chopsticks!
• Thick London fogs of the 19th and 20th centuries were dubbed 'pea-soupers' because of their density and green tinge.
• There are 35,000 hectares of peas grown in the UK each year, equivalent to about 70,000 football pitches. This produces about 160,000 tonnes of frozen peas - that's 2 billion 80 gram portions.

Random Joke of the Day


I was in IKEA earlier when the fire alarm went off. We all went outside to the self-assembly point.

The only number whose letters are in alphabetical order is 
40 (f-o-r-t-y).

Submissions

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Finish with a Song

Given the theme, this is The Black Eyed Peas with I've got a Feeling, released in 2009.