Pea soup

[H]e rushes in, and fills himself up with peasoup or salt fish, till he is fit to burst. […] [W]ell, you will not produce among these a pike, or a bowl of peasoup, just because they are there in the kitchen; you will dispense with such common things.

On the evening of the second day we received a small basin of peasoup, and many of us did not get even that. On the third day a piece of bread, less than a pound, was served out to each person, and from that time we began to get peasoup once a day. […] On the fifth day we were roused up at five o’clock in the morning, and after peasoup for breakfast we were taken from Goldap to the town of Angerburg, distant about 40 or 50 kilometres.

Boody cried angrily: / ― Crickey, is there nothing for us to eat? / Katey, lifting the kettlelid in a pad of her stained skirt, asked: / ― And what’s in this? / A heavy fume gushed in answer. / ― Peasoup, Maggy said. / ― Where did you get it? Katey asked. / ― Sister Mary Patrick, Maggy said. / The lacquey rang his bell. / ― Barang! / Boody sat down at the table and said hungrily: / ― Give us it here! / Maggy poured yellow thick soup from the kettle into a bowl.

[…] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]

Particularly is this opinion held by the Frogeaters’ Conoly,^([sic]) who were present in full force at the play in their peasoup clothes and blistered their hands applauding Le^([sic]) Grande Sarah when she keeled over in the last act and expired.

A yellow greenish peasoup appearance is a frequent occurrence in the severer affections of the gallbladder.

I sank on my peasoup bed-cover and started to sleep, then sat up.