Why are snow peas called snow peas?!
Why are snow peas called snow peas?
No stupid answers, please!
Answers:
Snow peas are harvested very early in the year, sometimes before last frost, and are in fact very resistant to frost, snow, and cold weather -- or so I remember reading somewhere. I'm sorry I haven't any references.
maybe because they r served cold lol
According to etymologists, the term was taken from the Latin pisum and adopted into English as the mass noun pease, as in pease pudding. However, by analogy with other plurals ending in -s, speakers began construing pease as a plural and constructing the singular form by dropping the "s", giving the term "pea". This process is known as back-formation.
The name marrowfat pea for mature dried peas is recorded by the OED as early as 1733. The fact that an export cultivar popular in Japan is called Maro has led some people to assume mistakenly that the English name marrowfat is derived from Japanese.