Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, Yesterday on the show, we were having a
Speaker 1: raging debate about you need to get rid of one
Speaker 1: from the cutlery drawer after I've stopped using a knife
Speaker 1: quite a lot now when I eat.
Speaker 2: We were asking you whether you need to get rid
Speaker 2: of the knife, spoon or fork. Big scenes on the phones.
Speaker 2: Yesterday the fork came up under a lot of criticism.
Speaker 3: Couldn't believe it. I thought it'd be the spoon. Again,
Speaker 3: I didn't use a spoon all of yesterday, so I
Speaker 3: thought I was right in saying that the spoon should go,
Speaker 3: but the listeners thought it was the fork. I've got
Speaker 3: an apology to make to you. Actually, yesterday on the show,
Speaker 3: in the heat of the moment and that debate, I said,
Speaker 3: we eat peas all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you went full Dean Boxel screaming about peas, you know,
Speaker 1: grabbing hold of the desks, gyrating aggressively.
Speaker 3: You said only old people eat peas. I said, we
Speaker 3: eat peas all the time.
Speaker 1: And there and the key word I'm surprised about was
Speaker 1: all the time. And I thought, well, maybe you do.
Speaker 3: After the show once it's all calmed down, And for Garci,
Speaker 3: I thought, well, that was having feared Christian because we
Speaker 3: actually don't eat peas all the time. We never eat peas.
Speaker 1: Because I was even trying to think, actually, what would
Speaker 1: you be having peas with.
Speaker 3: I've never prepared peas. No, I don't think our kitchen
Speaker 3: has ever prepared peas. I've only ever eaten peas, maybe
Speaker 3: if they're part of a special fried rice from an
Speaker 3: aging takeaway, But in the last five years, I don't
Speaker 3: think we've ever prepared peas in our kitchen.
Speaker 2: And as a kid, peace I just have peas appear
Speaker 2: to be a staple diet of mine the eighties.
Speaker 3: As a kid, peas were on every plane, no matter
Speaker 3: what you're having.
Speaker 1: My parents wanted some belief that were some sort of
Speaker 1: super food. Nothing against the piece, but every day peas
Speaker 1: are on that plate. I actually thought they always build
Speaker 1: every tea for me while we start with the peace,
Speaker 1: then we build around that, but the peas demand to
Speaker 1: be number one pie.
Speaker 2: Then the MVP are the peas on the plate.
Speaker 3: Peas and mashed potato were part of Oh my god.
Speaker 1: You know these days you get quite fancy mashed potato
Speaker 1: garlic and truffle.
Speaker 2: They still can't have it, so I think it's been
Speaker 2: force fed as a kid.
Speaker 3: And all it was was mashed potato, no butter, no salt, No.
Speaker 2: My mum would mix milk into it.
Speaker 1: So there was this horrible, soggy, mashy mountain surrounded by
Speaker 1: bodyguards of peace.
Speaker 3: I think that's what Oliver twist.
Speaker 2: More cruel, please mummy.
Speaker 1: So the question remains, do we think pea consumption is
Speaker 1: on the is dwining?
Speaker 3: Has peas peaked when we were kids and they don't
Speaker 3: get eaten anymore?
Speaker 2: Is it time for us to re examine the humble pea?
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I don't think people are eating peas anymore.
Speaker 2: I think they are.
Speaker 1: I think you can age someone by the how they
Speaker 1: feel about peace.
Speaker 2: I believe that the older folks are.
Speaker 1: Still They're gonna be on the phones going. I can't
Speaker 1: believe this was three a W ten lines going. Now
Speaker 1: we have pea dessert, we have pea ice cream, or
Speaker 1: you know, we love peace.
Speaker 2: I think it's younger people.
Speaker 3: So is the question we're asking how old are you?
Speaker 3: And are you eating peas?
Speaker 2: I think it's rude to well someone how old they are.
Speaker 2: We can guess.
Speaker 1: I think we can just guess whether sound their voice,
Speaker 1: what kind of age cutgo they are?
Speaker 3: Are you still eating peas?
Speaker 2: I used to eating peas? Was worn?
Speaker 1: If we see Jack and I were talking about knife,
Speaker 1: spoon fork, if one of them has to go, which
Speaker 1: one and why? And I was saying how I've stopped
Speaker 1: using a knife so much and just going with a
Speaker 1: spoon and fur. Let's not get into that now. It
Speaker 1: confused a lot of pop yesterday. I'll keep I just
Speaker 1: keep it quiet. I thought there'll be loads of other
Speaker 1: people were going, yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: For once. Everyone's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Are you for real?
Speaker 4: We need?
Speaker 2: Yes, we know. However, I'm still sticking to it.
Speaker 1: But in it we were talking about Jack Star saying
Speaker 1: about how you need certain things to shovel up peas,
Speaker 1: and I'm really queried how often you have in peas
Speaker 1: as an adult? I cannot When the kids were younger,
Speaker 1: sure we used to give them a lot of peas,
Speaker 1: mushy pieces and all that, but an adult now, I
Speaker 1: haven't had peas in years.
Speaker 3: To double down on the argument, I said, we eat
Speaker 3: peas on all the time, all the time, which isn't true.
Speaker 3: We never have peas, and I only really have them
Speaker 3: if they're part of a fried rice or when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, they were served up every night next
Speaker 3: to the mashed potato.
Speaker 2: So we're curious this morning. Maybe we've got this wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe peas are still wildly popular out there, okay, and
Speaker 1: all the different ones, the sweet peas, your garden peas
Speaker 1: produce of Mel, who occasionally comes running in here when
Speaker 1: I've got something wrong about.
Speaker 2: Doctor who the most laid back person on the show. Right.
Speaker 1: Our audio producer mele but lost the head with me
Speaker 1: when I made some offhand comment sibody did it?
Speaker 2: Did I say benmcumber match was dr.
Speaker 3: Tat No, but pretty much forced you to go on
Speaker 3: and make it on an apology.
Speaker 1: I've here apologized about anything in twenty odd years of radio.
Speaker 2: I did about or two because I was scared of Mel.
Speaker 1: Anyway, She's come flying in from one of her occasional
Speaker 1: visits today defending peas.
Speaker 2: Mel, what do you want to say about the peace?
Speaker 4: Uh, They're delicious and as a kid, I used to
Speaker 4: eat them frozen as a snack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a kid. Because it's easy to be conned
Speaker 1: this is a delicious snack. As an adult, when you
Speaker 1: have more awareness, you realize that isn't a delicious snack.
Speaker 1: I could do it anytime.
Speaker 2: What's still now? Peace?
Speaker 3: Delicious?
Speaker 2: Not straight out of the frozen bag?
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Now you must have been one of those kids whose
Speaker 3: parents didn't have ice cream or any sugar TV and
Speaker 3: you didn't know what a nice, yummy thing was. I
Speaker 3: would say that except for a Milo obviously, I'm like
Speaker 3: a four spooner of a glass of Milo.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know what at there with some pea
Speaker 1: to wash it, a pea chaser.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the lines. Craig, Good morning,
Speaker 2: morning Christian.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, buddy, peace.
Speaker 4: Please absolutely, my family goes through a full kilo of
Speaker 4: frozen piece a week.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you are single handedly keeping the
Speaker 1: Australian Pea community funded.
Speaker 2: Wow, we'll speak.
Speaker 4: Well speaking single handling. It's of all the youngest member
Speaker 4: of my family, my youngest seven year old daughter, Jessica,
Speaker 4: she eats probably eighteen to ninety percent of them, and
Speaker 4: like mel frozen, she has them for lunch, dinner, snacks,
Speaker 4: you name it. She even tried a couple of times
Speaker 4: to take it to school, but of course they're not
Speaker 4: frozen by the time she got the school, but she
Speaker 4: goes to town on them.
Speaker 2: H I think you might need to inventure there.
Speaker 1: You're doing up the school playground, you know when people
Speaker 1: offer ound nice snacks and cool stuffing like hanging on
Speaker 1: to the teacher. But they've I've got to get some
Speaker 1: frozen pies. Some of these are Marrow fans as well,
Speaker 1: so I'll just keep it on the low fight, all right.
Speaker 2: She's a key with Craig. Thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 2: Have a good week, Neil, Good morning.
Speaker 5: Morning girls up. Long time call listener, first time caller. Yes,
Speaker 5: I love my peas or have them with a stake
Speaker 5: twice a week and exactly like Mel, said a five
Speaker 5: year old daughter Mayer, relavating the frozen as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids went through this phase, right. Don't you
Speaker 1: also find that whenever you're clearing up or hoovering up
Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine up peace on the floor, they
Speaker 1: flicked on there. I think they like getting them because
Speaker 1: they can just roll them up and flick them.
Speaker 3: That's why kids like Why are they so popular to
Speaker 3: give to children? Because they are the messiest food. It's
Speaker 3: hard as an adult to pick up peace my kids.
Speaker 5: You said, very true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you also do your kids love this is?
Speaker 1: If you just mush them all up into some kind
Speaker 1: of ball, they'll eat that happily while watching TV.
Speaker 5: Yes they will. Yes, it's just a I think it's
Speaker 5: just a good assigning thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Neil, thank you very much. You call.
Speaker 1: No, they're called English garden piece as well. But I
Speaker 1: love it how Australians will try and latch onto anything.
Speaker 2: There one hundred meters.
Speaker 1: It's an Australian event. It's an Australian event. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Christians.
Speaker 2: On the line.
Speaker 5: Come on in a Christian jack here.
Speaker 2: I'm good Christian Christian peace.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I have at least four times awake in my
Speaker 5: vegie mix for dinner.
Speaker 2: Four times a week. That's high mixing it for the peace.
Speaker 5: You know why?
Speaker 4: The high in protein?
Speaker 5: Mate? You know they sayd the muscle they're good.
Speaker 4: They're all the fiber as well and everything.
Speaker 1: If we're interviewing doing the rock Johnson, I say, so,
Speaker 1: what do you do to maintain bolt piece? Four times
Speaker 1: a week in my veggie mix? They feed the muscles. Hi,
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