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Originally Posted by 2Diesels
Black peas/pigeon peas sound very much like what we in these parts call carlins......haven’t had them since I was a nipper, steaming hot with loads of vinegar  |
Aye - we're the same down here. You ate them on Carlin Sunday (in sequence, leading up to Easter, "Carlin (Sunday), Palm (Sunday) and Paste Egg Day (Easter Sunday)" was the rhyme by which you specified the dates
When I was very young, my older sister convinced me that carlins were sheep droppings collected off the Moors
