{"id":4129,"date":"2014-12-28T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2014-12-28T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T19:23:08","slug":"pea-soup-andersens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=4129","title":{"rendered":"Utterly Confused about Andersen’s Pea Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s as \u201cthick as pea soup\u201d, an old adage goes. Well, just how thick IS pea soup supposed to be? And what WAS as \u201cthick as pea soup?\u201d<\/p>\n

To the latter, it was a reference to the fogs that use to settle in on the United Kingdom, back in the days when factories and homes burned coal for fuel. If one used yellow peas, instead of green, it was referred to as \u201cLondon Particular\u201d, after that yellow hued smog of coal-burning days. To the former? As thick as your personal taste requires!<\/p>\n

In literature, pea soup is often referred to as food for the poor. Cheap and easy to fix. The recipe doesn\u2019t vary much around the world, but the significance it plays in cuisines varies. It\u2019s an \u201cimportant \u201cdish in Britain, Germany, and Scandinavia. In the US, it is simply one of a variety of the hundreds of soups we have available to us in restaurants or supermarkets.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the hubbub?<\/p>\n

Somewhere recently, I came across a couple of cans of \u201cAndersen\u2019s Creamy Split Pea\u201d soup. Now in the US, usually \u201csplit pea\u201d would refer to there being bits of peas in the soap, whereas \u201cregular pea soup\u201d. would be a puree.\u00a0 Such is the case with Andersen\u2019s, manufactured by Advanced Food Products<\/a> of Visalia, CA.<\/p>\n

But where does the \u201cAndersens\u201d come from? One would assume it to be a relatively easy question for residents or tourists to the West Coast of America. They are used to seeing outdoor posters along the highways for \u201cPea Soup Andersen\u2019s\u201d – with the cartoon characters of \u201cHap-pea\u201c and \u201cPea-Wee\u201d adorning the boards, and usually a visual of the trademark \u201cwindmill\u201d that adorned the Buellton location.<\/p>\n

In trying to research this\u2026.I became nothing but confused. The reason I started the quest was because of the canned soup, which was pretty good. And I assumed since it was called \u201cAndersens\u201d, it more than likely was a licensed product of the restaurant in Buellton<\/a>. But there is no reference to that on the soup website.<\/p>\n

Nor is there a reference to the soup on the restaurant website. Nor is there a reference to the restaurant on the website of Pea Soup Andersen\u2019s Motel<\/a>. Nor is there a reference anywhere to the San Diego restaurant<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n

What happened here? Family disagreement? Partnership dissolution? Intellectual property mayhem? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I do know I like the canned variety of Andersen\u2019s Pea Soup, and the restaurant variety as well.\u00a0 They are both adequate subsitutes when Mrs. Burgerdogboy hasn’t whipped up a pot of her home-made pea soup, which is da bomb!\u00a0 That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s as \u201cthick as pea soup\u201d, an old adage goes. Well, just how thick IS pea soup supposed to be? And what WAS as \u201cthick as pea soup?\u201d To the latter, it was a reference to the fogs that use to settle in on the United Kingdom, back in the days when factories and homes… Continue reading Utterly Confused about Andersen’s Pea Soup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[440,496,732,733,734,1692,2369,2605,2606,2607,2608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}