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Peas Pass the Mutton
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:37 pm
by augusta
From a Rochester paper covering the Borden trial:
"It will interest both sexes to hear then Bridget Sullivan, as she visits her friends in the kitchens on the hill, is fond of saying that she scarecly knew Lizzie Borden when she saw her in court the first day, she has grown so fat. Evidently, as the district attorney would say, prison fare is better than the routine of mutton, cold soup, cookies and green peas she used to get in her cheerless home in Fall River."
Green PEAS? Where in the world did they get that from?
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:31 am
by Susan
Yes, green peas indeed! From what we know of what the Bordens ate, it doesn't sound as though there was one healthy, leafy green vegetable in sight, let alone green peas! Skip the mutton and have a nice Spinach salad instead.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:23 am
by lydiapinkham
Sherri, that is uncanny! I used just that passage in this month's column. I wondered about the green peas too.
--Lyddie
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:17 am
by Kat
And I just read that article of Lyddie's and saw those peas!
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:23 pm
by Tina-Kate
Peas mutton hot,
peas mutton cold,
peas mutton in the pot,
9 days old.
Well, it was only FOUR days...but that's poetic license.
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:15 pm
by lydiapinkham
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:34 pm
by Susan
That was cute, Tina-Kate. I've got one too:
Peas, peas, the wonderful Legume
Healthful you'll be, when you consume
The more you consume, the better you'll feel
The Bordens should'a had Peas at every meal!
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:16 am
by lydiapinkham
The more they ingest, the more they hurl:
I don't think I want to give [/i]their peas a whirl!
--Lyddie
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:33 am
by Kat
Prof. Dr. Wood likened a piece of meat found in Abby's stomach to the size of a pea. Maybe that's where the peas came from?
"Some of the pieces of meat were quite sizable pieces, as large for instance a whole pea, and one or two pieces were larger than that,---as large as the end of my forefinger, so that their nature was very readily determined."T992
It sounds like Abby didn't chew her food very well.
I wonder from where all the oil came?