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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mushy peas
noun
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▪ All the walls were painted a sickly green: the same colour, thought Marie, as mushy peas.
▪ But it seems it will take more than 1992 to set the Continental palate tingling to the tune of mushy peas.
▪ Chips and mushy peas by the coast are as popular as ice cream and donkey rides.
▪ So do I. They emerge from the tunnel like an ad for mushy peas.
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mushy peas

n. (context chiefly British English) dried marrowfat peas which are first soaked overnight and then boiled until they form a bright green paste; a traditional accompaniment to fish and chips.

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mushy peas

n. marrowfat peas that have been soaked overnight and then boiled; served with fish and chips

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Mushy peas

Mushy peas are dried marrowfat peas which are first soaked overnight in water with bicarbonate soda/baking soda, then rinsed in fresh water and simmered with a little sugar and salt until they form a thick green lumpy soup. In Northern England and the Midlands they are a traditional accompaniment to fish and chips, although their appeal has spread and sometimes mint is used as a flavouring. All over Britain, but particularly in Northern England, they are commonly served as part of the popular snack of pie and peas (akin to the South Australian pie floater, but with mushy peas instead of a thick pea soup) and are considered a part of traditional British cuisine. Mushy peas can also be bought in tins (cans in North America). They are also sometimes served in batter as a pea fritter.

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I go down to the Italian chippy in Fortess Road, stoke up on nourishing ritual grease (cod, roe, chips and mushy peas, bread and butter and tea, syrup pudding), then heave my out-of-shape, but mentally prepared, body up onto Parliament Hill to roll myself a big wacky-baccy fag and let my subconscious think the problem through.

Working in a factory for twelve hours a day and walking home to a house with no central heating, no electricity and no bathroom, to sit down to a dinner of mushy peas and potato might give them a healthy respect for their Victorian forefathers.

After him, Vitellius, a bullying glutton who drank himself into and out of the job with a certain ironclad style, and then had a recipe for mushy peas named after him in return.

One minute he was dishing up an order of double cod and mushy peas, the next .

It came with bullet-hard roast potatoes, watery cabbage and mushy peas.