Sunday throat (1905); Peas with a knife (1828); Ears lowered (1947)

[Barbara Need]

>      I eat my peas with honey
>      I've done it all my life
>      It makes the peas taste funny
>      But they sure stay on my knife.
>
>Source unknown.  I heard it from my father sometime in the 1950's and I don't
>recall having heard it from anyone else.
>
>          - Jim Landau

I heard from my father in the 60s and 70s. (Variant: lns 3-4 They may
taste kinda funny/but it keeps them on my knife.) I will ask him
where and when he first heard it.

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics