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Originally Posted by Coralm
I'm not even really sure what Pease porridge is, but it's stuck with me this long, so it must be something great. Right?!
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It is simply peas, boiled to a mush in salt and water. "Pease" was originally a noun, similar to so, say, "oatmeal", which didn't have a singular. The singular "pea" and plural "peas" was a much later "back-formation" from "pease".