Yesterday's Comment of the Day

[nakednatalie]

my grandparents [...] used to also say "I'm gonna go yonder" and I always thought "yonder" was like disneyland, some great magical place far away... it always ended up being their lazyboys in the living room...

-girlisevil

Comments

[robinskij]

HEH!!

My ex inlaws used to say "yonder" too. It meant anything from outside in the yard, to Piggly Wiggly's, to a neighboring town, to their daughter's house. I guess they said it instead of "over there."

It, along with their tendency to call peas "ENGlish peas" (and bitch about how much they hated ENGlish peas) was something I found aggravating. Heh.

[nakednatalie]

Um... They're NOT "English peas"? *blush*

The word certainly helps to differentiate between the round, green ones and the brown kidney-shaped ones. All the others have descriptors: Field peas, Chick peas, Blackeyed peas... So what IS the correct term for the cute little round ones?

[robinskij]

Sweet peas is how I always heard it. Or just plain peas. The variants of field peas, such as purple hull, blackeye, etc, are called purple hull peas, blackeye peas, etc, so unless someone says "purple hull peas", it's the little green ones. Or so I was raised. ;-) I'd never heard the term English Peas until I moved here, actually.

I would probably not have been so irritated at this except for that they ALSO
1-called purple hull peas, "peas." Just peas. As if purple hull peas were the paradigm of all peas or something. As if purple hull peas (not blackeye, mind you) are the worldwide standard of peas and anyone who doesn't know that is ignorant. (yeah, right.)
2-looked with great disdain on pumpkin pies and only ate sweet potato pies and considered people who eat pumpkin pies to be weird and
3-were generally of the opinion that unless it originated within a 15 mile radius of the place of their birth and entire lives, it was WEIRD.

I have no tolerance for provinciality. Heh.

[robinskij]

Sweet peas is also how the cans are generally labeled, so I figure that's probably the more standard nomenclature. Just assuming, here, but it's logical.

[nakednatalie]

I enjoy teh provinciality, but not the closed-minded permutation.

Sounds like yer folks is frum the Southeast.

But, yeah, down here they're english peas. DEAL! ;oP