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Maurice Leakey
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posted November 29, 2013 10:04 AM

This afternoon I have been watching on TV "Love At The Parade" (2012) made in Canada but allegedly set in Chicago. In one scene our heroine goes into a supermarket and there is a large sign which reads "English Peas $1.99 LB".
Are English peas that sought after in Canada and the US, or are they not grown in those countries?

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Dominique De Bast
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posted November 29, 2013 10:16 AM

It may be an expression. In French, we have la "sauce anglaise" (English sauce), les "capottes anglaises" (codoms), (in Belgium [Smile]

le "filet américain" (a kind of not cooked meat).

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Paul Adsett
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posted November 29, 2013 12:14 PM

Hi Maurice,
I have never seen English peas for sale here in the US. Which is too bad, because none of the pease we can buy here are anywhere near as delicous as the English grown peas.

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Maurice Leakey
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posted November 29, 2013 02:04 PM

Paul
Perhaps that's the answer.
I buy small frozen peas from my local Tesco supermarket which are called "Petit Pois", they are delicious.
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=250172608

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David Ollerearnshaw
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posted November 29, 2013 04:53 PM

Now that's posh. Me I just get Bird's Eye frozen peas. I love fresh pod peas raw too.

Funny stuff food names you have French Fries too.

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Lee Mannering
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posted November 30, 2013 05:51 AM

Ooop North ith UK its Pie, mushy peas and gravy.
Wonder if you get mushy peas in the USA?

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Paul Adsett
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posted November 30, 2013 08:15 AM

There's an English pub in Cocoa Beach, near Cape Canaveral, called 'The Pig and Whistle'. Mushy peas are standard there when ordering fish and chips.

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