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Do you know how long it is since I last had peas that had still been on the plant within two hours of my eating them?

Of course you don't. Well, I'll tell you.

Over 30 years

It's almost like Proust's madeleines

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I spent a rainy August week about fifteen years ago decorating my grandmother's sitting room, with my parents. She doesn't like overnight visitors, and we were there for five or six nights. The farmer who lived next-door-but-one had a huge vegetable patch at the end of the lane, and he told us to help ourselves - there were more peas than anyone could eat, fresh peas every evening.

I bought a bag of fresh peas from the Spar round the corner this afternoon - I think it's a shame to cook them.

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Waitrose had sold out of fresh peas when I went in at lunchtime. But I have overdosed on homegrown strawberries & raspberries to make up for it.

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We are still nowhere near ripe strawberries and for raspberries I'll have to take a bowl into the back road - a job for tomorrow, I think!

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Pop down here. There are plenty.

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Oooo! Jealous now!

I hope you didn't cook them? That would be sacrilege.

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5 minutes in with the potatoes (we'll soon be cropping our own pots, too) and mint just before serving, just to take them from crunchy to firm and lose that slight bitter edge they have

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That's one of the reasons I got an allotment. As a young child we visited some friends of my parents who grew veg in their garden. My sisters and I absolutely devastated the pea patch in an afternoon. I don't remember getting into any trouble but I don't remember being invited back either.

Do you have broad beans? Ed didn't want us to plan broad beans because he said he doesn't like them. I told him he'd never eaten them, he'd only ever had week-old bullets of starch from Tescos, and I planted some anyway.

Mel

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Make sure you pinch the tips out to discourage the blackfly. Broadbeans are yummy.

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I was going to say 'thirty years'.

I remember shelling the buggers for my grandmother. They tasted great before you cucked the fook out of 'em for thirty minutes.

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Mmm.. Mum and I used to walk down to the farmer's fields and pick peas. We'd bring them home and I'd sit in the kitchen and help her shell them; 'one for me, one for the pan, one for me, one for the pan'. Loved them.

We've grown peas this year too. Last year's got munched by the slugs, but we planted way more than we needed this year so that at least some of them survived. There's something really nice about eating peas straight from the garden. They haven't been shipped around the country in a cold-store for a start.

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That would encourage every delinquent over the age of five to grow his own in secret.

We revolutionise children's health at a stroke.

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Ban all veg and make burger & chips compulsory at every meal.

Actually, I'm suddenly craving a McDeadthings. And I have some lovely fishcakes for tea.

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Let's ban peas!

Re: Let's ban peas!

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