{"id":128,"date":"2012-07-05T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-07-05T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T16:01:20","slug":"pease-pudding-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/07\/05\/pease-pudding-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"pease pudding hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0One of my office mates led us in a discussion about Greggs.\u00a0 They were named &#8216;Company of the Year&#8217; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greggs.co.uk\/greggs-is-named-company-of-the-year-at-the-north-east-business-awards\/\">North East Business Awards<\/a>, do you know?\u00a0 I have always found their food plain and effective and, observing my children\u2019s responses, there are no offending additives present.\u00a0 My office mate is leaving \u2013 his postdoc contract is coming to an end \u2013 and he has suggested that we have a bite at Greggs.\u00a0 He wants us to try Ham and Pease Pudding Stotties.<\/p>\n<p>His memories of the stotties are rolled into a bundle with days out with his grandfather, feeding the ducks and then eating ham and pease pudding stotties.\u00a0 His face goes all glowing when he remembers it.<\/p>\n<p>I am rather put off, repulsed really, because: I have never eaten pease pudding, it looks neither green nor grey but something in-between, and there is that skipping rhyme \u2013<\/p>\n<p>pease pudding hot<\/p>\n<p>pease pudding cold<\/p>\n<p>pease pudding in the pot nine days old.<\/p>\n<p>Anything that stands in the pot for nine days in a warm climate, like South Africa, goes fizzing and sour and that rhyme has always made me taste the sourness.\u00a0 In my mind the pease pudding brand is fatally wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0One of my office mates led us in a discussion about Greggs.\u00a0 They were named &#8216;Company of the Year&#8217; at the North East Business Awards, do you know?\u00a0 I have always found their food plain and effective and, observing my children\u2019s responses, there are no offending additives present.\u00a0 My office mate is leaving \u2013 his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/07\/05\/pease-pudding-hot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pease pudding hot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}