I Eat My Peas with Honey

DESCRIPTION: "I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes my peas taste funny, But it keeps them on the knife."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1969 (NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal)
KEYWORDS: food humorous
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 130, "I eat my peas with honey" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, George W. Boswell, "Humor from the Kentucky Hills," Vol. XVII, No. 2 (Nov 1969), p. 74, "(I eat my peas with honey)" (1 text)
NOTES [27 words]: The NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal version does not list this as a song, but it seems to me that I've known this for decades, so I'm very tentatively including it. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.4
File: NCF171EP

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