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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
"The pod people represent a completely regimented society. Metaphorically, they are so alike as "two peas in a pod" because they have been sapped of their emotional individuality. The vegetarian metaphor literizes Red Scare rhetoric of the "growth" of Communism as well as the idea that revolutions are made by planting seeds. There is a scene ...
Ripe, opened black-eyed pea in pod and developing pods. The Black-eyed pea originates from West Africa and has been cultivated in China and India since prehistoric times. [6] It was grown [7] in Virginia since the 17th century by African slaves [8] who were brought to America along with the indigenous plants from their homelands. [9]
The peas and greens each have significant meaning, with the peas depicting luck and the greens the color of money. Cornbread is, of course, the color of gold. Together, they represent the promise ...
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A child holding an edible pod pea in Kenya. Snow peas, along with sugar snap peas and unlike field and garden peas, are notable for having edible pods that lack inedible fiber [11] (in the form of "parchment", a fibrous layer found in the inner pod rich in lignin [12]) in the pod walls. Snow peas have the thinner walls of the two edible pod ...
Girl Scout Cookie season is here and with it comes some bad news for fans of two flavors.. On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) revealed that two of its long-standing fan-favorite ...
An edible-podded pea is similar to a garden, or English, pea, but the pod is less fibrous, and is edible when young. Pods of the edible-podded pea, including snap peas, do not have a membrane and do not open when ripe. At maturity, the pods grow to around 4 to 8 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 inches) in length. Pods contain three to nine peas.