Smashed Peas

This will be a very short post...

Someone please explain to me why the Brits like smashed peas!  This was sometimes the only option on menus, unless we went to non-British restaurants in London!

Smashed peas are the green mush on an otherwise tasty looking plate!

I admit, we didn't go to any high-end restaurants, because, of course, we are Boomers Traveling As Cheaply As Possible.

However, truly, our main options were pubs (almost always with smashed peas as the vegetable), Turkish, and Indian restaurants. Then, there are the tourist trap Italian places that beg you to come in off the street on your way to the theater (DON'T DO IT!  If they were good, they wouldn't need to beg!) 

Nothing is cheap in London anyway. But I just don't understand why they don't offer a nice little salad, or even whole peas? 

What IS the deal with smashed peas?  I can find some information on Wikipedia, but not the WHY... I even ran into another American tourist blogger asking the same question, after wondering at first if the cook had emptied his nose on the plate...

Smashed or Mushy Peas are essentially tasteless, and I can't imagine they have much nutritional value. Please, my British friends, please offer a small house salad so a tourist (or resident) can get some roughage!  We need that when we travel...

More on food in another post. I just had to put this one out there...sorry!

In Service,

Sondra