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Suggest merging with Pease pudding Matthew Mattic 17:49, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Changed my mind. The rhyme and the food should have different pages. Matthew Mattic 09:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
As I recall from a visit to the Anne Hathaway House near Stratford-upon-Avon, England, it was common in the middle ages to keep a pot of food in a home's fire for several days on end, serving it to family and visitors alike. It seems likely to me that this is the origin of the phrase "nine days old". — SWalkerTTU 05:49, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Pease porridge would have been peasant food in the middle ages, a staple in their very limited diet - potatoes had yet tp be 'discovered' and meat was the preserve of the well to do, so it was probably more than left overs and likely all there was. Angus Fisk ~ 121.99.131.124 ( talk) 13:35, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
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Suggest merging with Pease pudding Matthew Mattic 17:49, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Changed my mind. The rhyme and the food should have different pages. Matthew Mattic 09:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
As I recall from a visit to the Anne Hathaway House near Stratford-upon-Avon, England, it was common in the middle ages to keep a pot of food in a home's fire for several days on end, serving it to family and visitors alike. It seems likely to me that this is the origin of the phrase "nine days old". — SWalkerTTU 05:49, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Pease porridge would have been peasant food in the middle ages, a staple in their very limited diet - potatoes had yet tp be 'discovered' and meat was the preserve of the well to do, so it was probably more than left overs and likely all there was. Angus Fisk ~ 121.99.131.124 ( talk) 13:35, 8 January 2021 (UTC)