1 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Foodstep. I'm Anyeries and I'm Lauren 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: voc Obam, and today we're talking about peas, if you please, 3 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: and I did please. Excellent because we're talking about it 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: either way, so I'm glad that you do please talk 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: about peas. That is a rhyme f y I that 6 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: my dad used to say every time we had peas, 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: and I could never figure out if it was an 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: actual poem or if he just said it because it rhymed. 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: But if you're curious where I get all of my 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: love of bad, bad puns and every play, everything's falling 11 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: into place. That is one one piece of the puzzle. 12 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: And it turns out doing doing peas, I had a 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: couple of weird memories associated with them. Um. One is 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: have you heard of the English nest? No, I have 15 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: no idea. You wrote that in the note in the notes, 16 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: and I was like, well, okay, I wonder if anyone 17 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: else Is this just some weird thing that made up 18 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: in my family? Well, okay, so the English nest? And 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I read a story about it in 20 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: one of those literature textbooks okay, high school. So I 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: think it's a thing that's where you get your mashed 22 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: potatoes and you make a little indent in them, and 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: then you put the p's in there, and it looks 24 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: like a bird's nest with eggs in it, and then 25 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: you eat it and it's good. It's an odd but 26 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: good mixture. Okay, okay, so please write it if that's 27 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: not just me that did that usually came with ham 28 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: as well, at least in my family. Um, what did 29 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: the ham represent? Oh? My goodness, I guess I'd be 30 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: like a hawk destroying your nest goodness. Or maybe it's 31 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: just a big that just took a dark turn. Okay, well, yes, 32 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: there's there. There is also, of course, the the fairy 33 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: Tale of the Princess and the Peace, Yes, which I 34 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: was one of my favorite stories as a kid. I 35 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: had a pretty Um, I bought it at the book fair. 36 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: And side note, I missed the book fair so much. 37 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: That was such an exciting day. You think about this 38 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: all the time, and I mean, like we have I 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,119 Speaker 1: mean I have access to plenty of books. I also 40 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: have like real money and like bookstores nearby that I 41 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: could go to, But like the book fair, it was 42 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 1: so exciting, got to get out of class and like, look, 43 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: around at books in a little shop sometimes. Um, but 44 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: I bought The Princess in the p at one of 45 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: my first book fairs, and it was so beautifully illustrated. 46 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: It's longer than the the one I found in the 47 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: public domain, because we recently did that food for episode 48 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: and I was like, ah, Princess and Pete. It was 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: like two paragraphs long. The one I have is not 50 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: much longer, but it's longer than that probably so it 51 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: would have more pages and they could fill it for 52 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: more well, you know, anyway, I'm sure it had lovely 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 1: illustrations as well. Did it have lovely illustrations? Do it? 54 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: And does I still have it? It's one of the 55 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: There are a couple of books I could not get 56 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: rid of, like children's books, and that that is one. 57 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: So maybe I'll bring it in. Yeah, you can take 58 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: a look. Absolutely, But we're getting we're getting away from 59 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: our first question, so let's return to it peace. What 60 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: are they? Peas are the fruit of a climbing vine 61 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: scientific name Pisum sativum. The vine flowers and pea pods 62 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: grow from those flowers. You know, these like long, skinny, 63 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: yellow or green containers that that plump up with seeds. 64 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: As the seeds develop. Now I said that those pods 65 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: are fruit, and botanically they are, but they're more commonly 66 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: called lagoons and lagoum is the word for the fruit 67 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: of a plant in the family Fibasi. Thanks to listener 68 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: Kelsey for writing in the last time I mispronounced it 69 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: a little bit. I was going off four dot COM's 70 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: Latin pronunciation. I don't know anyway, um, But back in 71 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: the day, the fabaci E family was called the leguminos, 72 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: not the luguminati, the lagum to say that, but but 73 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: hence hence the name lagoons um. These fruits typically consist 74 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: of a pod with two long seams, you know, on 75 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: each side, and the pod contains high protein, high fiber seeds. 76 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: Some varietals of peas and sutivum have edible pods, like 77 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: Saccaratum uh snow peas and macrocrpond or sugar snaps. But 78 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: today we're talking mostly about non edible potted peas. This 79 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: is a non edible potted peas podcast. It's exact branding 80 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: for this episode. So, so, the seeds develop in these pods, 81 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, we green or yellow spheres and you can 82 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: either let the whole fruit ripen and then stop growing 83 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: and dry out on the vine, and then shell the 84 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: dry peas and save them either to plant later or 85 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: to cook in liquids so that they rehydrate. Um. These 86 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: dried peas are sometimes hold that is that the skin 87 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: is taken taken off, leaving just the inner bit, which 88 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: will often split into two halves at that point in 89 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: these are split peas, oh I see. Or you can 90 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: pick the fruit when the seeds are still immature. You 91 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: shell them and either eat them or cook the peas 92 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: fresh or freeze them or can them for later. And 93 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: at this point they might be called the garden pea, 94 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: green peas, English peas, so many names for peas all 95 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: you can please. Oh my goodness. They're a little sweet, 96 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 1: a little savory, slash earthy, sort of fresh and grassy, 97 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: and have a texture a little bit like potatoes, like 98 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: creamy to meally um, speaking of mashed potatoes, Yeah, I 99 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: guess this would go well together. The skin of the 100 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: peak can create a pleasant like burst or snap when 101 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,559 Speaker 1: you bite into one. You can also soak dried peas 102 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: overnight and then coat them with some kind of flavoring 103 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: like a wassabi flavored rice flour, for example, and then 104 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: fry them in oil or hot air or roast them um, 105 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: which leaves them sort of dehydrated and crispy with sab peas. 106 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: So good, so good. The leaves are also used as 107 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: a vegetable or urban parts of Asia and Africa, and 108 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: they are an annual plant, which means that they die 109 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: off after a single growing season and further crops need 110 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: to be replanted from seed. They also, like many other lagoons, 111 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: have this amazing and fascinating symbiotic relationship with bacteria that 112 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: live in the soil around their roots. All right, here, 113 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: here's the gig. These bacteria need sugars produced by photosynthesis 114 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: to live, but the bacteria themselves cannot photosynthesize, so they 115 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: form colonies, these these little nodules on d pas roots. Meanwhile, 116 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: the peat plants need nitrogen to create chlorophyll and a 117 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: bunch of other important stuff like like a very proteins, 118 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: but they can't use free ranging nitrogen in the air. 119 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: They can't absorb it, even though it's one of the 120 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: most abundant elements in our atmosphere, So in turn, the 121 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: bacteria breathe in nitrogen from the air um and process 122 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 1: that nitrogen into ammonia, which plants can use. This process 123 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: is called nitrogen fixation, and peas and other lagoons, along 124 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: with their little bacteria buddies, fix so much nitrogen in 125 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: the soil that there's a surplus even after the peas 126 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: growing season is over. They leave the land better than 127 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: they found it. So for this reason, lagoons are a 128 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: popular crop to plant in rotation with other crops that 129 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: deplete the soil. Um and gardeners can use peas like 130 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: alongside other vegetables to reduce or ideally eliminate the need 131 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: to fertilize. Way to go. Peas good for the earth, 132 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: But are they good for you? Yeah? We're talking nutrition. Yes, yes, 133 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: Peas have a decent amount of protein, potassium, iron, calcium, 134 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: I mean, no acids, and complex carbs. They are a 135 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: low fat, low sodium food and they show up in 136 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: all kinds of things, some healthier than others. Pasta soups 137 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: than notorious pup I love a split pea soup, Oh 138 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: do you. I don't think I've ever had one, outside 139 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: of once when I was a kid, and I the 140 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: Exorcist is the only thing I can envision there. They 141 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: show up frequently in fried rice. There's PET flour and 142 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: P protein, just to name a few. These days, there's 143 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: also P milk and P yogurt on the market for 144 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 1: folks who want their dairy alternatives to be soy and 145 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: nut free. Personally, I think that P yogurt tastes not good. 146 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: Oh I have not had it. It's one of the 147 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: very few foods that I've ever been like, Nope, not 148 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 1: this one. Why what was it? What was the taste? Like? Oh, 149 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: it was just sort of well, the face you're making 150 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: is not good. It was sort of planty. It was 151 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: sort of like I was eating like a salad yogurt 152 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: or like a but like, oh, that's that's what Google 153 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: thinks of women right there. Not in a salad boss, 154 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: but not in a nice way. I was not a 155 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: woman laughing alone with salad yogurt? Well who is? Though 156 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. My salads are frequently hilarious good that 157 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: makes me happy most of the time. I'm just kind 158 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: of like, this is okay, I was I was joking. Unfortunately. 159 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: Um back to peas. Frozen peas, I will say, are 160 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: just as nutritious as fresh peas, and they are the 161 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: most common frozen vegetable in the United States. Yeah, Like, 162 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: frozen peas are popular here to the point that it's 163 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: really hard to find fresh peas outside of like farmers 164 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: markets or your own garden. Yes, Bone Up Tea ran 165 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: a headline in p s A frozen peas are actually 166 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: better than fresh bold words, I know. The article is 167 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: touting frozen peas convenience and quality, an ability to be 168 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: cooked into dishes without being thought first. Um. And and 169 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: to be fair, peas that are frozen are like a 170 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: couple hours out of the field when they are frozen, 171 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: and they're um, they're sorted using this fun salt water 172 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: process um, like a like a really specific gravity of 173 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: salt water to make sure that that only the younger, 174 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: more tender less starchy ones make it into packaging. Um. 175 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: The tender ones float to the top, the starchy ones 176 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: sink in this specific saltwater solution. UM. And there's no 177 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: such guarantee on peas that you shell yourself. Folks. I'll 178 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: have to tell my mom that, because if you remember 179 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: in our frozen food episode every summer where you buy 180 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: so many peas at the farmer's market here in Atlanta, 181 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: the one off of seventy. Laura and everyone else's like, oh, 182 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: it's a really big farmer's market, and we blanch them 183 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: and we freeze them, and the blanching hurts. It hurts 184 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: because your hands are hot and then they're cold, and 185 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: then you do it again until we usually at twenty 186 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: like freezer size bags of peas, and we put them 187 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: in this locked chest freezer and I never see them, 188 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: you know, because I don't live at home anymore. So 189 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: I'm putting all this work into it. Why doesn't she 190 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: give you some to take home? I think I'd probably 191 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: say no. I'm like, I would never want to see 192 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: peas again, and then like a week later, I'm over it. 193 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, wow, I really wish I had some of 194 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: those fresh peas. They do usually turn out very well, 195 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: very delicious, I believe you. Fresh. Crispy, crunchy is how 196 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: I like them. Yeah, m m m m um. On 197 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: a on an industrial level, the sheer volume involved in 198 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: creating frozen peas within hours of the crops being picked 199 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: means that farmers have to stagger their plantings and their 200 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 1: pickings so that the freezing facility they're working with will 201 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: have the capacity to take their harvest when the peas 202 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: are ripe enough. It's this whole like labyrinthian schedule. It's fascinating. Yeah, 203 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: I would love to just to observe for a little bit. 204 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: Maybe that would put my struggles in perspective, my one 205 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: day of struggle a year with peas. I maintain there 206 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: has to be some better way than plunging your hands 207 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: into hot peas and ice. My mom does. It's like 208 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:23,479 Speaker 1: a pro spoons perhaps probably you heard of slotted spoons. 209 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: Slotted spoons, you say, I do, say. Oh, man, I'm 210 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: going to have to think about this. Let's look at 211 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: the numbers. Yes, let's look at the numbers. Somewhere around 212 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: twelve to seventeen point four million tons of peas are 213 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: produced a year. And I was I was trying to 214 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: dig into this number, and I couldn't. I'm not sure 215 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 1: if that's just dried peas. I think it might be 216 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: just dried peas. That's wild because I because I kept 217 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: seeing like, like about twelve million tons of dried peas 218 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: every year, and and there's there's hypothetically a lot of 219 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: fresh frozen peas. From what we've been discussing, it seems logical. 220 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: I think that there could be at least at anyway, 221 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: there's a lot of peas. There's a lot of peas, 222 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: and mortor intelligence for once failed me on the fresh 223 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: pea thing. They're busy trying to capture hobbits. Um. We 224 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: can't blame them for that. Oh, it's not my fault 225 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: that someone named a company that anyway, their native to 226 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 1: North Africa and Asia, and you can still find wild 227 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: peas in parts of Iran, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. Canada was 228 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: the largest producer in two thousand, though, with China, Russia 229 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: and France following its lead. And this is another food 230 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: that's eaten all over in all kinds of different ways. 231 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: In parts of Asia, dried peas are a popular snack 232 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: and um addition to stir fries, that's a pretty popular choice. 233 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: Mushy peas in England, usually with your your fish and chips. 234 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: Perhaps sure. Note, however, that we are mostly not talking 235 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: about American Southern field peas like black eyed peas and 236 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: other black brown, cream red type peas, which are more 237 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 1: like beans and tend to taste more earthy. A lot 238 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: of things are called peas, Yeah they really are, which um, 239 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: which is a good segue to our history segment, but 240 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: a bad segue to an ad But first we're going 241 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: to take you on that at break and we're back. 242 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: Thank you, sponsor, Yes, thank you. So yes. Some of 243 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: the history gets a little murky because there are three 244 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: main types of peas that sometimes get confused for each 245 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: other when we're talking about history. Peas were one of 246 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: the first domesticated plants around eight thousand years ago, most 247 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 1: likely in the Middle East or South or Central Asia. 248 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: They are one of the eight founder crops or eight 249 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: of the earliest domesticated crops ever. From there, the peace 250 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: soon appeared in China and India. If that's not where 251 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: it originated in the first place, Oh, history, um. If 252 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: we're talking pre domestication, some evidence suggest the Neanderthals are 253 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: eating peas forty six thousand years ago might not be 254 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: the same p though I would say probably not the 255 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: same pe probably not um. Other evidence suggests that two 256 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: types of peas were each domesticated from a now extinct 257 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: ancestor about eleven thousand years ago in the Near East. 258 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: The first known evidence of purposeful p cultivation is out 259 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: of Syria nine thousand three hundred years ago. Those domesticating 260 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: the p did so selectively, attempting to get to a 261 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: softer shelled, what season ready crop. Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Romans 262 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: all enjoyed peas in their cuisine. The Epicios, that really 263 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: old cookbook recipe book had nine recipes that utilized dried peas. 264 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: Pea soup was a common to go items sold by 265 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: street vendors in ancient Athens, which I find very curious. Indeed, 266 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: one story goes that after Romans encountered it, they named 267 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: it piece them and that is where the name comes from. 268 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: But about that name, okay, So originally peace as in 269 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: p e a s E was the name for a 270 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: single P until the late seventeenth century when it became 271 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: known as the plural. So people seeing this peas thought 272 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: that that was the plural of oh. It would say 273 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: it out loud and say peas, and then from there 274 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: you get the singular P. Yes, So it was kind 275 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: of a big misunderstanding. But people were saying pieces pieces, Yeah, 276 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: that's great, I know, let's go back to that. We 277 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: can try it perfect. But you can still see peas 278 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: um in the rhyme peas porridge hot, which I don't 279 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: know but apparently is a lasting rhyme peace porch hot peace, 280 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: pordge cold pease porge in a pot nine days old. 281 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: Look at you, Lauren Font. You really are always surprising 282 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:24,719 Speaker 1: me with these rhymes about peas and other things. Peace 283 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: itself is possibly way way older, pre Indo European, maybe 284 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: even a gan. I went on a hunt to prove 285 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: that peace was related to pisa, as in lending Tower 286 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: of but no die. Oh, I'm sorry, but pizza is 287 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: in its family tree like a word family tree. I'm 288 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: really bummed about it. But you can't always get what 289 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 1: you want good good life advice and rolling stones taught 290 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: me that peas reached China in seventh century CE, possibly 291 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: called foreign legume piece at this time maybe eaten fresh, 292 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: but were commonly dried. Um. Dried peas were a big 293 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: time winter food. These peas were more closely resembled to chickpeas, 294 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: though Charlemagne had peas planted in his gardens in eight 295 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: hundred France, and at the same time peas were a 296 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: popular staple for peasants, which I also went on a 297 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: word hunt to see if if peasants and peace was 298 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: related and it's not all at least I didn't find 299 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: any evidence that it was. Ah Well, they stored well 300 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: and they kept for a long time, so they were 301 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: a good peasant food. And green peas for lent were 302 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: stored in the Barking Nunnery and twelfth century London. A 303 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: century later in France, fresh peas in the pod was 304 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: a popular street food item. Um. They would go on 305 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 1: to become a go to food for lent in France 306 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: and England. Full of protein, you know meat, and I 307 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: think for back when we had big family dinners when 308 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: I was younger. Um, on Easter, I believe we had peace. 309 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 1: It's a pretty popular spring. Fresh peas are a good 310 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 1: spring spring thing. They are a little bit of mint 311 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: and lemon maybe m In sixteenth century Italy, gardeners cultivated 312 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: a smaller tender pea called Pizeli Novelli. People loved these things. 313 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: It was the fashion, the fashion to eat unripe peas 314 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: well by by unripe just like yeah, like like immature 315 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: pain peace because previously most of them had been eaten dried, yeah, 316 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: and all the way up until seventeenth century people were 317 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: sort of bed over heels in love with these things. Um. 318 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: A female friend of the Sun King Louis, had this 319 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: to say about fresh peas, which could be wildly expensive. 320 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: By the way, Um, this subject of peace continues to 321 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: absorb all of this some lady ease even after having 322 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: supped at the royal table and well supped too, returning 323 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: to their homes at the risk of suffering from indigestion. 324 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: Well again, eat peas before going to bed. It is 325 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 1: both a fashion and a madness. I mean, I mean 326 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: they're good. They are good. I mean they're real good. 327 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: They are. They have such an interesting texture thing. It's 328 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: that pop and then the kind of creamy thing. Yeah, 329 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: it's one of my favorite dishes that I had in England. 330 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: Just again like peas, a little bit of lemon, little 331 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: bit of mint. They were just so green, they are 332 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: very bright. They were just so I felt like they 333 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: tasted like the land in the air. Oh now I'm 334 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: gonna actually get peas in every episode. This happens every 335 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: episode almost um, and I have a slight aside because 336 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: doing this episode. The main reason I wanted to do 337 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: it was mostly because which in at X. Will get 338 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: into that more later, but I did a lot of 339 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: these memories got jumbled around in my head. Did you 340 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: ever play well, wait a minute, did you take what language? 341 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 1: Did you take Spanish? Spanish? Okay, so you didn't play 342 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: this game. Anyone who took French, please right in if 343 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: you remember playing the game the Sun King game where 344 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,479 Speaker 1: you were wandering around his court and trying to please 345 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: people like it was a computer game that we would 346 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: play in French class to learn French, and I just 347 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: totally forgot about it. I remember it being incredibly frustrating. 348 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: You could never figure out what they wanted, which might 349 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: have been the lesson. And that's a little bit existential 350 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: for what like middle school. But sure, alright, well, speaking 351 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: of fashion, that trend setter Catherine de Medici introduced peas 352 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: to France during the fifteen hundreds, and the French named 353 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: them tiny peas. Due to the popularity of peas in France, 354 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: some towns were named after recipes is so seated with 355 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:05,719 Speaker 1: their town that incorporated peas. Street vendors in England advertised 356 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: their hot gray peas with us suck up bacon around 357 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,360 Speaker 1: this time as well. Um new varieties developed in England 358 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: around this time. We're known as garden peas and English peace. Yeah, 359 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: so that that's some Europe for you. Europe really digging 360 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: into this station of Peas. We do have some some 361 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: New World stuff, but first we have one less quick 362 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 1: break for word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank 363 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: you sponsor, Yes, thank you. The colonist brought Peas with 364 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: them to the New World. In quotes, they kept well 365 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: and we're good for voyages, so kind of an obvious 366 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: choice to take with you settlers in Canada's New France 367 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: bought with them pea soup. If you remember at the 368 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: beginning we said top grower was Canada and France was 369 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: in the top five. I'll find that really kind of 370 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: there's interesting and legacy. There's there is a pe legacy um, 371 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: and once again it's time to talk about someone else 372 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: with a legacy. Thomas Jefferson. He and his neighbors engaged 373 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: in a battle of the peace to see who could 374 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: grow them in their garden first, and Thomas Jefferson came 375 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: out in front. Happened back over to Europe. In the 376 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: seventeen nineties, Peas appeared in their first genetics study, one 377 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: led by Thomas Andrew Knight. Yeah, and of course genetics 378 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: weren't I mean it's technically what he was studying, but 379 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: he didn't know it at the time. But he was 380 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: working with different colored peas and observing how cross fertilizing 381 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: them could affect the color of future generations. France's eighteen 382 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: hundreds encyclopedia The Vegetable Garden included fifty pages on different 383 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: types of peace. Yeah, okay. And then along comes one 384 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: Gregor Mendel in the eighteen sixties. Mendel was an Austrian 385 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: monk who realized that some p traits were more dominant 386 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: than others. He carried out a series of experiments that 387 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: were the precursor to the laws of genetic inheritance. While 388 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: he died pretty much as an unknown, his research came 389 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: back into the scientific sitegeists in the nineteen hundreds and 390 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: his contributions to genetics was recognized. Yeah. Um, he's currently 391 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: called like like the father of genetics and some circles. Um. 392 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: And Mendel was using p plants because they're they're inexpensive, 393 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: they're easy to grow and keep track of, easier even 394 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 1: than mice and honey bees, which is what he started with. Um. 395 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: Part of why his work didn't catch on during the 396 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: time was that The prevailing theory was that offspring are 397 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: blend of their parents traits. You know, like if you've 398 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: got a tall mom and a short dad, you'll be 399 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: of medium height. Um. So therefore, what Mendel was saying, 400 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: you know that two tall parents can produce can produce 401 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: a short offspring because the short trait may have been inherited. 402 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: Just recessive, right, Um it was. It was unintuitive to 403 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: people at the time, especially because humans are more genetically 404 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: complicated than p plants. But no one knew about jeans yet, 405 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: so it seemed really easily dismissed. Um. But yet his 406 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: his concepts of receiving a random assortment of traits from 407 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: each parent half of the traits that they had each 408 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: inherited from their parents, um, would become the basis of 409 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: chromosomal heredity. In the early the humble pee, the humble pea, 410 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 1: the Campbell Company, Yes, that Campbell Company shows peas as 411 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: one of the first things to can in eighteen seventy 412 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: as mentioned in our Frozen Foods episode. They were also 413 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: some of the first vegetables to be frozen around the 414 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties. And speaking of frozen peas, uh, there is 415 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: this absolutely bizarre and delightful moment and relatively recent history 416 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: in which famed actor, writer and director Orson Welles absolutely 417 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: pitched a fit while attempting to refer to record a 418 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: few commercials. UM. One being four frozen peas. Another one 419 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: was for cod fish fingers. And I can't believe I 420 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: forgot that when we were doing our cod episode all anyway, Um, 421 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: this this fit he pitched. Um. This was? This was 422 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: after he reportedly made the recording crew chase him all 423 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: over Europe like like at least five locations around Europe. Um, 424 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: a sort of revenge for them requesting audition. How dare they? Um? 425 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: This happened around so he was he was already quite 426 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: famous and and really infamous also over being pretty person 427 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: nickety um and and had taken to doing ads to 428 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: help pay for his pet projects. UM and I I 429 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: think we can roll a little bit of of this 430 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: here because oh it's it's old. We know a remote 431 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: farm in Lincolnshire where Mrs Buckley lives. Every July peas 432 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: grow there. Do you really mean that? I yes, I'd 433 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: start half a second leak. Don't you think you really 434 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: want to say? July over the snow isn't that the 435 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: fun of it? It's if you can make it almost 436 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 1: when that shot disappears little bit. But I think it's 437 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: so nice that that you see a snow covered field 438 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 1: and savery July, pease grow there. We know a remote 439 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 1: farm in Lincolnshire where Mrs Buckley lives. Every July, peas 440 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 1: grow there. We aren't even in the fields you see. 441 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: We're talking about him growing and she's picked him on 442 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 1: one in July. I don't understand you. Then, when must 443 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: what must be over for July? When we get out 444 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 1: of the snowy field. When I was out, we were 445 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: onto a can of peas, a big dish of piece. 446 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: When I said, in July, let's just do the article. 447 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 1: If you'll forgive me by saying so, that's just stupid. 448 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: In July, I'd love to know how you emphasize in 449 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: and in July. We we just actually played a little 450 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: bit of it in the studio here, Annie, do you 451 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: have any thoughts, feelings, reactions. I love how his his 452 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: tone stays very like even the whole the whole time. 453 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: It sounds reasonable, but what he's saying is super unreasonable, 454 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,919 Speaker 1: super unreasonable. And I told Lauren I don't know what 455 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: part we played, but I'm determined to say you don't 456 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm up against in a like straight voice 457 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: in regular conversation. Maybe by the end of the day, 458 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: I think you can. I have faith in you. I 459 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: think I can. Yeah, goals from Orson but yeah, if 460 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: if if that sounds familiar to anyone who has never 461 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: actually listened to to that Orson Wells clip um, but 462 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: who was perhaps watching Animaniacs or The Critic back the nineties. 463 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: That's because Maurice LaMarsh, who's wells impersonation is super on point, 464 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: and I would say the Brain character is based on Um. 465 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 1: He did it pretty much verbatim in Pinky and the Brain, 466 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: except he like put in family friendly phrasing for a 467 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: few things. Um. And he also parodied it in The Critic. 468 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, you can. You can look up the full 469 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: audio under the names Yes Always or or Frozen Peas 470 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: if you just want a real good giggle, I recommend it. 471 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: Now that you pointed out yes the Brain so much 472 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: very much. Um. Oh, that's so scared me as a kid, 473 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: I wonder and I could never put my finger on why. Uh, 474 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: it just really unsettled me. It did, But in a 475 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: way that I liked. Then again, I'm like, I was 476 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: a little bit older than you at the time, so 477 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: I might have Yeah, I should. I should revisit it 478 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: and see if I can figure out what it was 479 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: put me so on edge show. Maybe it was the 480 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: orson well impression. Maybe I don't know. I don't know, 481 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: but uh, yeah, that's a that's the story of frozen 482 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: peace and peace in general. Yes, um, kind of a 483 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: a random I just suddenly really wanted to talk about peace. 484 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: So I hope that it was enjoyable, enjoyable for you 485 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: out there and it brings us to listener. No, that 486 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: was I love that sound. That was good. I should 487 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: have done a pinking the brain kind of send off, 488 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: but oh it's okay. Maybe next time I couldn't have 489 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: done it. Anyway. I still working on my William Shatner, 490 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: so very slow when it comes to mastering impressions. That's 491 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: that's okay, take your time. These things. These things are important. 492 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: Thank you. Our first letter is from Alicia, who wrote, 493 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: I just listened to your better episode and the episode 494 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: that had a follow up from someone talking about the 495 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: Minnesota State Fair. I have a friend whose sister and 496 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: cousin have both been in the Princess k of the 497 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: Milky Way Court and have had both their heads carved 498 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,959 Speaker 1: out of butter. My favorite account is one of our 499 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: friends meeting her sister and asking, aren't you the butter Princess, 500 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: and her reply was, Yep, my face is still in 501 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: the freezer if you want to see it. That is 502 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: a great quote. Butter carving is alive and well in 503 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: that part of the country. That's beautiful. It is I 504 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: want to see. I want to see some butter carving 505 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: in action one day. Yeah, we'll have to go. Yeah 506 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: to our ever growing list of faces. Stephy wrote in 507 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: about our food stuffs in Movies episode saying Halloween is 508 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: my favorite holiday and it gave me great ideas for 509 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: this year's costume. However, at the end of your interview 510 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: with V I have a solution to your glass problem, 511 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: or at least partially glass candy. If you make glass 512 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: candy without food dye, you can easily make a small 513 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: sheet of candy, smash it with a mallet or hammer. 514 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: It's my favorite part, and instantly you can make it 515 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: look like someone has glass sticking out of them. Glass 516 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: candy is super easy to make it only takes water, 517 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: corn syrup, sugar, and I recommend a candy thermometer to 518 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: make it easier. Me too. Also, I'm on a roller 519 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: derby team. Heck yeah, shout out to River City Renegades 520 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: out of Mackinaw City, Michigan, and we occasionally traveled to 521 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: Salt St. Marie, Canada. We have some teammates who travel 522 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: from here, so we stop at fast food places sometimes 523 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: in relation to your McDonald's episode, and I can tell 524 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: you this. You can find poutine it's fries with gravy 525 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: and cheese curds almost anywhere in Canada, including McDonald's. However, 526 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: KFC there doesn't have biscuits. What I know, it doesn't 527 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: sound like much, but we were very surprised, as obviously 528 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: we clearly I'm okay, I'm pulling myself back together. Oh 529 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: and you can find Tim Horton's everywhere anyway. You just 530 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: wanted to share, Well, I've never been to a Tim Horton's. 531 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: Oh I have very good Yeah. It's it's kind of 532 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: funny because you go to Canada and you think I've 533 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: got to go is it timmy ho hoes something? Anyway? Um, 534 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: and every time I've been to an airport in Canada 535 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: which is like five or next times. Um, there is 536 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: always a massive line to Tim Hortons, no matter what 537 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: time it is, no matter if like the line is 538 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,479 Speaker 1: to me long enough to make me reconsider my choice. 539 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: If there's other places that are open, Nope, always a 540 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: really long line. And there's like three lines. So there's 541 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: like I just want coffee line, there's regular ordering line, 542 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: and then there's like I know exactly what I want 543 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: and it's those doughnut holes and one coffee. I don't 544 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: need to think about anything, and it's all three or long. Um. 545 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: This has just been my experience perhaps cultural standpoint. I mean, 546 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:09,359 Speaker 1: you know it is. Yeah, it's lovely, it's delicious. Um. 547 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 1: And thank you for the hint about glass candy. If 548 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: we ever get around making our food Stuff horror short film, 549 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: we will keep that in mind absolutely. And uh yeah, 550 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 1: thanks to both of them for writing in. If you 551 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: would like to write to us our emails food Stuff 552 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: at how stuff works dot com. 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