It doesn't make much sense, given that peas are hard even with a fork, unless you realize that there was such a thing as a "pea knife", with a groove or slot to hold the peas.

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At 12:24 PM -0700 5/22/07, Bev Walker wrote:
This little ditty is attributed to the famous A.Nonny Mouse
and collected by Edward Lear.
I hadn't heard of it until my own children were learning to read and we
were delighted to find it in a book of rhymes.
I have always had difficulty memorizing 'lines' but this one I do know. It
has become my party piece LOL.

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On Tue, 22 May 2007, Webwalker wrote:

 When I was a child, among the poems I learned was

 "I eat my peas with honey
 I've done it all my life
 It makes the peas taste funny,
 But it keeps them on my knife."



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