I like sherry and curry powder, too, and I use yellow split peas, because I like the color better.
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Yes especially to the color preference. The green is disturbingly familiar based on those early parenting years.
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I was thinking of The Exorcist, but yeah.
Your molasses comment scared me a minute, there. One of our favorite Christmas cookies requires it, as does a BBQ sauce stir-in for a summer time pot-luck dinners favorite: beef/bacon/ Four Beans casserole.
My grocery still shows 6 varieties available online, and typically has a couple more brands/variations on the store shelf. Whew!
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And then there’s always Conan The Barbarian. Looked like watery pea soup to me.
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I noted you mentioning “very small diced onions.” I tried some micro-dicing recently to test out something I saw on YouTube, and now I’m a convert for certain preps, like risotto, or anything where you’re after onion flavor but not texture.
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Soylent Green
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I assume that “micro-dicing”/ “very small dice” you all are talking about a “Brunoise”?
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Yes! Saw a nice technique.
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Sure, it’s people, but WHICH people? Was their feed organic? Were THEY fed Soylent Green? Will this present a risk of BSE (or, HSE, I suppose)?
Was my Soylent Green made of gamey old folks equivalent to an old rooster, and thus would be better in a long cooking braise? Or is it human equivalent of Wagu, where it is treated to a life of indolence and luxury, getting massages and beer, building up huge reserves of intramuscular fat?
These are important questions.
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Grass fed takes on new meaning!
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The guy with the mallet is “Hap-pea” and the unfortunate soul holding the chisel is “Pea-wee”.
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I always loved that, almost as much as their soup.
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That’s really cool. Do you know when/where it was first published?
“Before Pea Soup Andersen’s. Bueltmore Hotel and Andersen’s Cafe postcard, Buellton, California. Card postmarked March 18, 1937. This is a rather rare view of the “little known occupations” that were employed to create the split pea soup that Andersen’s became famous for. This image has a “Rube Goldberg” feel to it.”
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Thanks! I love old and quirky stuff like that.
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Both my graphic designer wife and child would both have a conniption over the line breaks. “Plates of soup yearly.” Huh?
THAT’S the secret to their SP soup.
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That’s how we learned to do it in Home Ec. The boys in Shop made the tools.
Omg I’m showing my age. 
