Maybe the classy way to eat peas was on the knife, but not everyone
could afford the special knife? Then the honey makes a lot of sense.
At 9:48 PM -0400 5/23/07, Ruth wrote:
You don't need a special knife to peas if you're using honey. It
would make the peas stick to the knife - at least long enough to get
them to your mouth <LOL>
Martha Krieg wrote:
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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Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
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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