SC - weird Anglo/Saxon question

[david friedman]

At 12:25 PM -0700 9/22/99, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
...
>Mimi Miller reported that while translating a
>portion of an Old English version of the Prodigal Son story, one of her
>students came up with a line where the son wanted to eat 'pork and snow
>peas'. They corrected the grammar (the son was eating with the swine,
>not of them) but  I am still mystified (and no, I don't have the
>original of the text)- were there snow peas in A/S England? Peas or
>beans? But Snow peas? I think of them in Chinese food, not European...

The English translations I know of the Prodigal son story have the son
wishing to eat the pods or husks that the swine were fed (this is after he
has wasted all his money). So this probably means pea pods, but not the
edible kind--that is the point, after all.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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