# Pease porridge in the pot five days old **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463 "2007-02-09T05:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/1 "2007-02-09T05:19:33Z")
Finally finished the leftover pea soup. Whew! (And it _wasn’t_ split pea soup–it was made the proper Scandinavian whole yellow peas, thankyouverymuch.) Not entirely sure whether I should be glad or horrified that it tasted exactly the same at one day old and five days old. (Of course, it tasted better at one day old than on the day it was made. That’s just one of the laws of the universe.) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/2 "2007-02-09T13:47:49Z")
Semi-related, last week I pulled some chicken legs out of the deep-freeze and to get them to thaw sufficiently so I could separate the stuck-together parts without an icepick, my girlfriend suggested I boil the entire mass. This left me with a pot of thin chicken broth, to which I added a package of instant rice, a can of mushrooms, and a package of Lipton soup-in-a-cup (which had its own dehydrated chicken broth) and made a huge mess of chicken soup I ate over the following week. It’s quite cold in my kitchen (heater’s broken, haven’t gotten around to fixing it) and the soup tasted fine even after several days, albeit the ingredients (especially the Lipton) had made it pretty salty, requiring I add more water to dilute it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/3 "2007-02-09T13:51:51Z")
**Francois:** Tell me Jacques… do you think that this soup can really bring about world peace? **Jacques:** No, Francois. It is _pea_ soup. Not peace soup. **Francois:** Jacques, you won’t tell anyone what I thought about the soup, would you? **Jacques:** Of course not, Francois. [shakes his head] Peace soup. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/4 "2007-02-09T14:06:45Z")
Slight nitpick – one I decided to get some backup for – it’s [nine days](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_Porridge_Hot) instead of five days. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/5 "2007-02-09T14:12:34Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Slight nitpick – one I decided to get some backup for – it’s [nine days](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_Porridge_Hot) instead of five days. [/QUOTE] **Hunter Hawk** ’s was apparently only five days old: > [@Hunter Hawk](#): > > I should be glad or horrified that it tasted exactly the same at one day old and five days old. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/6 "2007-02-09T14:19:25Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] **Hunter Hawk** ’s was apparently only five days old: [/QUOTE] No doubt. It’s the thread title that caused my quibble. As I said, _slight_ nitpick. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/7 "2007-02-09T16:36:46Z")
You want I should come back in a few days and start another thread titled “Pease porridge in the Tupperware in the freezer nine days old”? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/8 "2007-02-09T16:51:37Z")
[QUOTE=Hunter Hawk] You want I should come back in a few days and start another thread titled “Pease porridge in the Tupperware in the freezer nine days old”? [/QUOTE] Not a problem. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pease-porridge-in-the-pot-five-days-old/391463/9 "2007-02-09T16:56:55Z")
Q. What’s the difference between the Hokey Pokey and pea green soup? Anyone can learn to hokey pokey.