On 7/10/2015 12:30 PM, Dave Smith wrote:[i]
> On 2015-07-10 4:19 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>>> ...mmature peas (and in snow peas the tender pod as well) are used
>>> as a vegetable, fresh, frozen or canned.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>
>> They must have put a committee together to come up with a name so
>> unappealing. I was eating wasabi peas yesterday and pondering how they
>> got the peas so big.
>
>
> I don't know about the wasabi peas you get but the wasabi peas I have
> seen around here are the duller, larger kind more typical of fresh peas
> than the small bright green peas that come frozen.

The ones I get I believe are from Thailand which is know neither for
wasabi or peas. OTOH, the "wasabi" that these peas are coated with is
mustard. Hee hee.