Pease Porridge Hot - in Popular Culture

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• In the 1966 Blake Edwards World War II comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Major Pott (Harry Morgan) includes the last lines of the rhyme in his rantings after he is driven mad from getting lost in a maze of catacombs under the Sicilian village.

• In the 1986 film Troll main character Wendy Potter recites the first half of this rhyme right before being trapped in the troll world.

• In Laura Ingalls Wilder's fictionalized memoir Little House on the Prairie, young Laura recalls singing the song as "bean porridge hot." Laura notes that she likes bean porridge hot or cold, but that in her house, it never lasts nine days.

• A line in the poem was used for the title of the 1959 Billy Wilder film, Some Like It Hot.

• In the De La Soul song, "Pease Porridge", the recording of the rhyme recorded by Harrell and Sharon Lucky is sampled repeatedly.

• In the poem "red-rag and pink-flag", poet E.E. Cummings references the rhyme with the verse "some like it shot, some like it hung, some like it in the twot nine months young."

• In the popular internet animation series, Salad Fingers, an episode features the title character reciting this song whilst eating pease pudding at a picnic.

• The poem was mentioned in the very first episode of BBC One Soap opera, EastEnders in 1985.

• Pease Porridge and Pease Pudding are the same English dish known earlier as pease pottage. Pease Pottage is a small village in West Sussex, England which, according to tradition, gets its name from serving pease pottage to convicts either on their way from London to the South Coast or from East Grinstead to Horsham