BLACK PEAS

YESTERDAY MY DAUGHTER BROUGHT US A BAG OF, WHAT SHE SAID WERE "BLACK PEAS" TO ME THEY JUST LOOKED LIKE ORDINARY PEAS BUT HARD.. I REMEMBER 'BLACK PEAS' BEING SMALL HARD PEAS WHICH WE USED IN PEA SHOOTERS. ANYWAY I STEEPED THEM OVERNIGHT AS PER THE INSTRUCTIONS. AND HAVE JUST BOILED THEM UP. TO BE HONEST THEY TASTE JUST LIKE ORDINARY PEAS!!!! NOT THE TASTE I REMEMBER THEM BEING THAT YOU GOT AT WIGAN FAIR.. MY QUESTION IS, ARE THESE NOW CLASSED AS "BLACK PEAS" OR ARE THE ORIGINAL PEA SHOOTER PEAS, 'BLACK PEAS'?? AND WHERE CAN YOU BUY THEM FROM? REALLY DISAPPOINTED

Ron, I get my dried peas from the toffee stall in the market hall believe it or not.. I might be going that way today so I’ll ask the woman that owns the stall about black peas and I’ll let you know one way or another.

Pigeon peas are what you need, Ron.

Carlin peas

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FM.YES THAT'S WHAT I GOT BUT THEY DON'T TASTE LIKE I REMEMBERED THEM TASTING NOT HAD THEM NOW FOR A FEW YEARS.

Admin
We used to buy from the pet shops ,that's were all the pigeon men used to get them we used to put a handful in our pocket to nibble at same as what they used on the fair

Weren't ordinary dried peas what you had for the pea shooter? Why, for such a purpose would you want to be buying any specific variety?

ENA THEY WERE SMALL, HARD, PERFECTLY ROUND, PEAS ABOUT 1/8" - 3/16" DIA. WE CALLED THEM PIGEON PEAS THEY WERE JUST THE JOB TO USE IN PEA SHOOTERS.

Black pehs are pigeon pehs or to be posh maple peas.You can as momac says get them from that stall on the market.My daughter bought some from Bolton for bommie neet from Ye Old Pastie shop

Admin, you took your peashootering far more seriously than did I. I am sure that I just nicked a handful of dried peas from the pantry. Did not have the dosh to splash out on non essentials.

Ron,I've got you some Maple peas and according to google they are pigeon peas.

Used to get black peys from Ashton under Lyne market.at one time you could get anything there but like loads of other places, not what it used to be?

Thanks Mo