In Popular Culture
Pease pudding is featured in a nursery rhyme, Pease Porridge Hot.
In the Horatio Hornblower TV movie The Fire Ships, the hungry crewmen, displeased with being put on half-rations, sing a song which includes the verse "Biscuits: one; pease pudding: none; and salt beef: only half."
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