I've only shelled peas a few times in my childhood, while visiting my grandma on her farm. I definitely preferred doing that over shucking corn, because getting that damn silk out of the corn cob was such a PITA.
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'Shindig'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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Kathy A - Jan 10, 2011 12:21:49 pm PST #15996 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2011 12:22:40 pm PST #15997 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I liked shucking corn as a kid. But I was glad we didn't have to do that for the cow's corn.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2011 12:24:36 pm PST #15998 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd leave by 9am, but I'm super-cautious about that kind of thing.
That's assuming getting there by two hours in advance, right?
Can you make breakfast in time for us to leave then? I mean, if you still want to do breakfast? It still seems to be on the plate for me.
megan walker - Jan 10, 2011 12:25:24 pm PST #15999 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, the shucking had to be done quickly (since my mother would start the water to boil as my father went to pick the corn and then we had to shuck it by the time it reached boiling) so we made a race out of it. But the peas seemed to take forever.
brenda m - Jan 10, 2011 12:28:03 pm PST #16000 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I was just on a conference call with a guy in Atlanta who had to interrupt in the middle to tell us all he was watching out his window while a guy tried to dig his car out of the snow with a spoon.
megan walker - Jan 10, 2011 12:29:02 pm PST #16001 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
A teaspoon or a tablespoon?
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2011 12:29:14 pm PST #16002 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
who had to interrupt in the middle
That's perfectly valid interrupting material.
I've had plenty of fresh peas. Unless they are gungo peas and cooked with rice, I ain't into it. And I guess those might be beans, but fuck off.
Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2011 12:29:34 pm PST #16003 of 30001
hwæt
Yes.
Sue - Jan 10, 2011 12:30:56 pm PST #16004 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Hee!
So I guess we're targeted to get this storm on Wednesday. (But it may miss us.) Which means it's pretty slow moving.
Kathy A - Jan 10, 2011 12:35:01 pm PST #16005 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
since my mother would start the water to boil as my father went to pick the corn and then we had to shuck it by the time it reached boiling
Now that's some fresh corn!! That's actually what Alton Brown recommends doing, to get the absolute freshest possible corn. Unfortunately, we no longer have access to a corn field next door--the closest we got was the small field between Grandma's house and my uncle's house about 100 yards away, where they grew sweet corn and various vegetables that all the aunts and uncles and cousins could come over and pick for their own when we had time. That's all been turned into a subdivision, along with the rest of the farm.
One of the saddest reactions I've ever seen from my mom was when we drove out to the old farmstead after the developers took it over. She and her sister could only figure out where the farmhouse was after they found the remnants of the stump where the big tree in their front yard had been.