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Article: Please pass the split pea soup
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2003
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First Course
Please pass the split pea soup
By NANCY STOHS
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Shine up your soup pot, hang on to that ham bone. Get ready to
celebrate National Split Pea Soup Week.
If this strikes you as just another cheap way to promote a cause -
- in this case, the sale of more peas -- you're right, it is exactly
that.
But the timing of this announcement, which comes from the USA Dry
Pea and Lentil Council, is nearly perfect. It's getting colder, it's
dark outside way too much of the time, and a steaming bowl of "pease
porridge hot" sounds awfully appealing right now.
Unfortunately, the army drab color and mushy texture of this
peasantlike soup more ...