Monty by Jim Meddick for July 02, 2019

Pease porridge hot (for breakfast), Pease porridge cold (for lunch). Pease porridge in the pot nine days old (Yuk!)

So is that where….’ Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot 9 days old’… came from.

I’m almost 60, and only today I learned of “Johnny cake” (cornmeal flatbread). We never stop running into new things.

All EB is asking is give pease a chance.

History lesson: After the fall of Rome, the technology of bread-baking was forgotten in Europe until crusaders brought it back from the Middle East. For the intervening centuries, the main staple of European peasants was boiled grain or legumes, hence Goldilocks’ preoccupation with porridge. “Pease” was the original word in English for what we now call a (lone, singular) “pea”, but because it sounded plural, “pease” morphed into “pea” with a new plural “peas”. (The word “cherry” has a similar history.) The medieval peasant hovel would typically have a pot of porridge simmering for days at a time; no telling what pease porridge must have been like after nine days.

Monty + Moondog, 2 PEAS in a pod !

Hadn’t thought about Johnny Cakes for a long time, but my Mom made them for us all the time. I liked them best covered with corned beef gravy……now that was good eating!

Johnny Cakes are really good.

Joey Chestnut is the real American hero on the 4th of July. Trump should invite him to the White House when he wins another Mustard Belt of Thursday

The hot dog as we know it (on a bun) was “invented” in the middle of the 19th century. But sausages have existed for millenia…

I read that the “Hot Dog” made its first appearance at the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago. At the same time and place, R. T. French introduced a mild, salad style mustard. Someone put the two together and the rest is history.

maybe they just hadn’t discovered yeast yet – all the bread was probably flat bread like chapati

See what things you forget when the Time Travel devices aren’t working?