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I'm curious about the origin of "peas porridge" in the children's rhyme. I know that some like it hot and some like it cold, but I've never known what the stuff is. I suspect that "peas porridge" is a corruption of some other phrase. Can anyone help with this?
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Hi meta. Interestingly, the New Shorter Oxford gives only pease pudding = a dish of dried split peas boiled to a pulp.
I assume that pease porridge is the same thing.
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Allo Meta. Can you write out the rhyme. I have never heard of it.
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Pease-porridge hot,
Pease-porridge cold,
Pease-porridge in the pot,
Nine days old;
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot,
Nine days old.
pease porridge = pea pottage, or soup
at some point pease was both the singular and plural form and it was a short step from there to the singular pea.
"envision whirled pease!" -anon
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Wow, thanks for your kind replies. A little nagging 30 year old question of mine has now been put calmly to rest. Isn't it funny how such a small thing can feel so edifying? What on earth did we all do before the Internet?
Now, a recipe, anyone?
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In Kent (SE England) the version I knew as a kid was indeed with the variant 'pudding' - going like this:
Pease pudding hot,
Pease pudding cold,
Pease pudding boiled in the pot
Nine days old!
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a dish of dried split peas boiled to a pulp
...and this is something people eat? Still??
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>a dish of dried split peas boiled to a pulp
...and this is something people eat? Still??<
belMarduk, have you ever had Indian food? Have you ever eaten dahl? Pretty much the same idea. The challenge (and if you're lucky the pleasure!) is in the flavouring!
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I'm going to have to give it a try. The only thing I have ever had was a meat wrap (sorry I can't remember the name - too much wine with dinner  ) with curry. Très yummy.
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>...and this is something people eat? Still??
I doubt very much that it moves at all!
TEd
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