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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: crowMAW on June 05, 2003, 10:24:54 AM
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PEAS!
I've always hated those little buggers. As a child, I had a fairly normal relationship with my parents. I never considered them cruel with exception of forced consumption of english peas. I would attempt to swallow them whole, chased with a gulp of beverage to mask any pea that might prematurely detonate near a taste bud. Unfortunately, their time delayed cluster bomb like explosions in my stomach would later give hours of wretched english pea flavored burps.
As I've matured, I've learned to overlook the occasional english pea from any main course that might be seasoned with them. But even adults can crack when exposed to too much of their vile presence.
Last night I'm enjoying the flaky goodness of my Pepperidge Farm chicken pot pie...the rich smell of the gravy filling me with anticipation. I dig in with my fork and pull a tasty morsel only to see that it is terribly infested with english peas. Normally, there is a pretty even distribution of those nasty little poison pills. And the few that land on my fork can be overlooked as the rest of the pot pie nummies overpower their evil effects. But last night's pie was a bit of a Poisson distribution anomaly...it was awash in green spherical land mines. I starred down at those little green monsters...and...something snapped. I could feel it, like HAL slowly losing his mind, I could feel rationality slipping away. THEY HAD TO GO.
With surgical precision I proceeded to prod through my pie. Grooming each of the unpalatable parasites and placing them a little mountainous pile. My inspection would be thorough and complete until all those little weapons of mass destruction were accounted for and disposed of making the pie safe for consumption.
In the end my pie was cleansed of all its sins. I breathed a sigh of relief. My faculties began to return. And all was well.
However, I am thinking of starting a crusade to have english peas banned from pot pies. All I need is a good spokesperson...maybe Sally Struthers or Martha Stewart.
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Field peas are much better, particularly with a couple chunks of ham thrown in the pot for flavoring.
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I hate peas too! Except for the chinese crunchy kind.
It was always a sore point with mom and dad when I was young. But I stood fast!. I dont' eat peas. Corn, Broccolii, Asparagus, even Cauliflower. But NOT PEAS.
So, I married a woman who loves peas. She thinks they are sweet nd delicious! So, I disect my pot pies as well and give her the peas. It's worked well for 26 years!
:D :D :D
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Originally posted by gofaster
Field peas are much better, particularly with a couple chunks of ham thrown in the pot for flavoring.
Mmmmm...ham
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I used to hate vegetables as a kid, but now I actually like them. Except raw celery - that stuff is evil if it is consumed on its own.
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Man I love peas. Mmmmm. Sausage and mash with peas, gravy all over the mash and ketchup on the peas.
Damn I'm hungry now.
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I coul kill a curry. I haven't had a take-away in ages. Chicken Jalfrezi or a Bhuna.
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You git Dowd. I want a lamb bhuna now.....with keema rice, keema naan, mushroom bhaji and a popadom or 7......and just to keep the peas thread going, peas aloo. With kulfi to follow.
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Hehehe. I'm going to have one tonight. I'm starving already.
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Originally posted by Swoop
Man I love peas. Mmmmm. Sausage and mash with peas, gravy all over the mash and ketchup on the peas.
Damn I'm hungry now.
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Naked Chef... nuff said.
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You know I moved south closer to work, right? In Den Haag there's a curry house that delivers!
Only problem is.......even tho the menu says they deliver to Rijswijk they moaned blue murder on the phone, didn't wanna deliver this far out. Food took an hour and a half, was cold when it got here......and was probably the worst curry I'd ever thrown in the bin. :(
Aw man I miss Bristol.....the Curry Hotline.
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I have to pea after I drink too much bear.
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I know what you're saying. I think curry is a British thing, outside of India. Most curries in India bear little resembleance to 'English' curries - it was the immigrants who anglicized it with the different sauces.
I've never had a good curry on the continent. Tried in both France and Germany.
Why don't you learn to cook your own? It's not that hard really - you just need to prepare things before hand (the ginger and onion base etc) and get hold of the right spices.
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Oh no there's good curry houses in Holland......just not enough. Or that deliver.
If you're ever over then there a brilliant one called the Royal Sagar in Amstelveen. Really nice place, and damn good curry. Only thing is the chef is actually from Pakistan, but then he could be from Bolton for all I care, just as long as they don't forget the rice in a takeaway order again.
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Ditto on Pea's BAN PEA'S!!! :D
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I hated peas when i was a kid too.
As an ault I discovered that my mom was ...well... challenged in the pea cooking department.
Now as a full blooded Italian lady she did a wicked tomato sauce and killer sausage and pasta ... but her peas sucked!
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One of the happiest moments of my life is when I found out that Marie Callender's chicken pot pies were microwavable! No more waiting 45 minutes for that flakey goodness. They could be ready in 12!!! Of course I still hate the carrots. So I eat those first. And the pieces of chicken. They just get in the way of the crust and gravy. So I get the carrots and chicken eaten first and then I'm in heaven!
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Originally posted by Dowding
I used to hate vegetables as a kid, but now I actually like them. Except raw celery - that stuff is evil if it is consumed on its own.
Celery is good only in potato salad or by itself if it is slathered in peanut butter.
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Originally posted by Dune
One of the happiest moments of my life is when I found out that Marie Callender's chicken pot pies were microwavable! No more waiting 45 minutes for that flakey goodness. They could be ready in 12!!! Of course I still hate the carrots. So I eat those first. And the pieces of chicken. They just get in the way of the crust and gravy. So I get the carrots and chicken eaten first and then I'm in heaven!
The real purpose of pot pies is to make a delicious flakey crust hold a bunch of delcious gravy. All the rest is just filler!
I disect the peas and give them to wife. I east carrots first, then potatoes. That usually leave a few chunks of wimpy celery which I kind of ignore and then go for the beef, and that leave the gravy and crust.
Man, I am starving now!!!!!
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My parents decided to disassemble the old dinett set and replace it with something more modern. That is when they discovered that I had used the leg closest to my usual seat as a pea depository. 8 years worth of dinner peas had been stockpiled in that leg. It was literally full.
I hate peas. I have always hated peas. I will always hate peas.
MiniD
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Originally posted by gofaster
Field peas are much better, particularly with a couple chunks of ham thrown in the pot for flavoring.
And black-eyed peas with bacon is good, too. Makes a good side for turkey, mashed potatoes, and turkey juice gravy with biscuits and/or cornbread. You guys don't know what you're missing.
Then its perpetual-motion with the boiled peanuts while watching football or auto racing.
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I've found the peas to be consumeable, except only in England, where they have the radioactive like colour, and the taste of plaster.
That said, i would kill for some horse radish right now :)
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Originally posted by Saintaw
I've found the peas to be consumeable, except only in England, where they have the radioactive like colour, and the taste of plaster.
Nah that's mushy peas, totally different matter.
And I loathe mushy peas to the extreme btw.
Betcha Dowding loves them......
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I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
They taste kinda funny,
But, at least, they stick to my knife.
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Originally posted by Arfann
But, at least, they stick to my knife.
Ketchup mate, ketchup.
You kinda lose the rhyme though.
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I eat my peas with ketchup
Done since I was a pup
It makes em taste like poop
But then I think of Swoop
:D
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Fish, chips and mushy peas and a can of shandy - used to have that once a week as a kid. :)
Syz - exactly. You have to smother celery in something else just to dissipate the taste. Alot of people eat it with just salt though.
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*Standing ovation for Arfann & MT*
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Originally posted by Dowding
Syz - exactly. You have to smother celery in something else just to dissipate the taste. Alot of people eat it with just salt though.
LOl I forgot about salt. Yeah, I eat it with salt but my kids hate it with salt.
Salt is good, though. It's also good on margerita's and popcorn!
Say, what's a can of shanky????:D
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Originally posted by Saintaw
*Standing ovation for Arfann & MT*
I can take no credit for my contribution. The poem was in a book of jokes I read as a child. On the other hand, it's a sign that my memory ain't all that . . . . . . . .err. . . . . . . . ah . . . . . . . .What was the question????