Carlin Peas - Weird Stuff In A Can

It's Carlin Sunday! - So let's open up a can of Carlin Peas.
What is Carlin Sunday? It's a tradition from the North of England - observed on the fifth Sunday in Lent, that is supposedly based on an event hundreds of years ago - here's some interesting reading on the topic:
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[@1kreature]

Pro tip: Bend the pulltab up a little before using the can opener. This way you have a handy little handle to grab when pulling the lid up later and don't have to resort to fishing it up with whatever you find on the table. See, makes the pulltab usefull!

[@AtomicShrimp]

I like that a lot - Not least because it will annoy the hell out of the pull tab comment police!

[@willproctor7301]

I like it, look like you're about to actually use it then whip out the can opener. Big up yours to the pull tab posse.

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

@@willproctor7301 I tend to dislike pull cans if it's liguid .-. Or those annoying fruit cups in syrup where you have to pull the plastic off..it splashes EVERYWHERE

[@KovietUnionDefector]

Big up to Hodmedods who are growing organic old / heritage/ British Heirloom variety peas and beans in SUFFOLk and trying to revive them in a canned range....They are a great little company that could do with the support and exposure ;) they make a great British Dhal curry in a Tin ;)

[@AtomicShrimp]

I will seek out their other products and review them

[@gerrypippin2263]

Suffolk gal here too. Hodmedods are awesome.x

[@simonhopkins3867]

Just had a look. Wow thanks. That's a great company to see in the UK.

[@Tonys-Adventure]

In the North West we call them black peas. Simmered for a few hours and eaten like a thick soup with salt, vinegar and pepper. Usually around bonfire night.

[@Bunnito-q2w]

Parched peas! I’m making some today. I managed to find dried black peas in Holland & Barrett.

[@notreyf]

Very similar to black peas, also eaten here up north. Black peas are soaked overnight and then simmered or "parched", also sprinkled with salt and vinegar. I remember when I was little, while they were dry, they made amazing "bullets" for your pea-shooter, they stung like heck. I really enjoy trawling through this channel, Weird Stuff in A Can is an absolute delight. Also lovely to hear you reminisce about your childhood, I always knew there was a hint of northern common sense about your videos :)

[@marcoose777]

Thanks for the heads up, just been over to Hodmedod's and brought some of their fantastic produce. British lentils, seaweed, an assortment of their cans including spiced British fava beans (Dhal). Can't wait to taste them.

[@trashj8778]

In central Lancashire we call these parched peas. You can buy them dried in booths stores. There is a chap that runs a market stall selling them hot in a polystyrene cup. Lovely on a cold day

[@kathrynillsley7557]

I grew up in North West England and these look like -and from your description -taste like what we called Parched Peas. There was a man with an oven on wheels on Preston market who sold them hot in paper bags with salt and vinegar. I’d forgotten all about them til watching this. They were almost nutty and really nice.

[@neilgrundy]

Prestonian here and yes we are known for parched peas.

[@nowisee8309]

So interesting. Loved the history lesson. Thank you 🌟 edit. looks delicious

[@gasman6996]

Just had my carlin peas with sugar snaps and a steamed chip shop steak and kidney pudding ... Delicious! I got some dahl, fava beans, crackers and Lava bread from the same firm.. All great so big thanks Mr Shrimp

[@steammachine3061]

Never heard that story. I did hear/read once that the potato was introduced to ireland via a Spanish shipwreck

[@oldbatwit5102]

Was this Spanish ship captained by Sir Walter Raleigh?

[@Broeckchen]

Watching this is so zen~

[@missmerrily4830]

That was so interesting. I'd never heard of carlin peas, but some online investigation shows they have many other names, including pigeon peas. Now those I am familiar with from my previous life in the Caribbean where they are often the peas used in peas 'n rice. Great to hear the legend that goes with carlin peas as eaten in UK. Still learning every day, even at the age of 70+!

[@66squeaky]

Called Parched peas in Lancashire and sold from a mobile food stall on Preston's flag market. Great with a splash of Sarson's vinegar. I've made them in my instapot.

[@jessie4114]

My grandma used to do these every bonfire night and we call them black peas in manchester. I cant find them anywhere now, so nice with salt and vinegar.

[@WaddedBliss]

I've had them on Bonfire Night, warm with salt and vinegar, in Bolton.

[@ceejay3054]

I am so glad this experience was fulfilling for you - that pan hagerty (sp?) was a ton of prep work! Looked like a truly fantastic meal. I love when every part of the meal plays a specific role in a total taste experience.

[@laa4438]

I just slice everything up. Layer it in a dish. Microwave then finish in the oven. It takes about 5 mins . prep Traditionally it was an easy dish that you threw in the oven and left all day to slowly cook until needed

[@ganainm2025]

Never heard of these before. I like the story about them being washed up on the beach.

[@redgriffin3923]

Loved that story, thanks for sharing.

[@yes0r787]

Well that was a strange moment when I felt like the only one not celebrating Carlin Sunday. Thanks for the history lesson and demoing weird stuff in a can.

[@johntravolto4058]

So cool buddy! I'm going to make this dish. Looks easy to make and yummy!! Cheers!

[@GrandmaLaura2nd]

I must grow these. found some interesting history regarding them and also found a seed co. I could buy them from in the US

[@thatcriticvideo]

This was a very nice video and I learned some traditions!

[@Petertronic]

I love lentils and chickpeas so I must look out for these. Yum!

[@greenchylde2858]

these looked familiar! I live in the US and use these in my rice! My Peurto Rican friend introduced them to me as Gandules or Pigeon Peas =D they are one of the only peas I like

[@R2D2C3POSKYWALKER]

I just got this pea and searched for a recipe and your video came on top. Will try

[@basilbrush9075]

I watched this yesterday and funnily enough happened upon a tin in the shop the same morning. As Carlin Sunday approaches I'll have to make the lancashire based equivalent!

[@Shadow_Wraith]

Also known as maple peas and black peas. They're also popular with carp anglers.

[@nowisee8309]

really? never fished with peas. lol

[@idavo]

In Carlisle the Sunday before Palm Sunday is Carlin Sunday. Each pub you went into there was a free tub of Carlins to those who wanted. Pepper & vinegar on the bar. I thought they were damn fine! Lucky I had friends in Bolton I would visit, ‘Black Peas’ - again eaten with pepper & vinegar. I really miss them. Time to get on eBay look for a bag and make my own. Thank you for posting this brilliant vlog.😅

[@riley5673]

Subscribed for scambaiting, stayed for weird stuff in a can

[@anidnmeno]

nigga, you stole my line XD

[@evilemu2599]

Jesus same

[@Sirdiggar]

@@anidnmeno Pretty sure it's been stolen about 500 times now, I've seen it everywhere lol.

[@louisthomas8550]

I just ordered some dried carlin peas from the Hodmedod's website, as well as split fava beans (I'm planning on making a Sicilian bean and fennel soup with those), apple 'balsamic' vinegar and, perhaps of interest to you, laverbread in a can.

[@drateretulosba]

I love your videos. I can’t stop watching them

[@ruthsmith2367]

Excellent just bought some organic Carlin dried peas from a health food shop. I’m going to try and grow them. These were from Hodmedod’s to, never heard of this brand before either. Let’s see if they grow and I can have an endless supply. Just watched a video, some used a nob of butter and salt and vinegar to 👍

[@mtt16690]

These peas look like they’d go really well in a veggie/vegan burrito or maybe mixed into a nut roast or burger pattie with something else. I’d never heard of them until today!

[@omikronweapon]

I believe I came across Carlin peas while trying to find out which peas to use to make authentic mushy peas. I couldn't quite work it out though, so I never got round to it. The English names vs Dutch make it a nightmare to find a straight answer. Even more so with several answers to what people claim are the 'right' peas to use. Carlin peas look and 'sound' very similar to something we call "kapucijners" in the Netherlands. Quite a distinct taste, brown colour, even the liquid in the can is very familiar. Though I read they're called marrowfat peas in Britain. I also read "capers" in one recipe, but I'm fairly certain they aren't exactly the same. There seem to be a ton of legumes that are very similar. I eat them fairly regularly, once or twice a week, they were a staple food at my family when I was a kid. The downside of them is that they make you quite gassy. I'll have to try your featured recipe sometime, though I'm not the biggest fan of bacon.

[@daviddunn4922]

I have orderd some red ant eggs because i saw your video. Doubt my friends or family will try any but i will try to get them to.

[@Trenz0]

You always manage to make British food look delicious

[@ellisarmstrong6368]

Blew my mind , I come from easingston colliery originally and live is shotton colliery now , 10 minutes down the road

[@AtomicShrimp]

I haven't been to Easington Colliery since I was a teenager - at that point, the pit was still in operation and there was a sort of railway thing that ran to the cliff edge and dumped the mine waste into the sea - my parents dropped me and a friend there to spend a day, leaving us with a pack of sausages and some bread - we made a fire out of the waste coal. My gran had moved From Easington to Peterlee after my mum grew up and moved down south here. I don't have any close living relatives left there up now, but I should like to go back there sometime.

[@dogwalker666]

@@AtomicShrimp you need to the country side and beaches are fantastic. Also Rabbit poo are called carlings around here.

[@euniceswan2751]

In Durham . It's Carling , Palm, and Paste egg day . That's how we think of the the buiildup to Easter.

[@psistis80]

I always thought it was a mock for George Carlin. In the mid 70's, he had a skit for peas and how much he loved them and breaking it down to their advantages to other vegetables.

[@nessamillikan6247]

I was also wondering if ‘ol George was going to come up, perhaps in the punny letter display card he has sat on his table. But Carlin is an American celebrity, and would’ve taken away the focus on British heritage.

[@psistis80]

@@nessamillikan6247 Don't forget he is Irish.

[@tomleader7054]

In London they are, I think, called pigeon peas. In Bury and around there they are called black peas and, as you say eaten with vinegar. My dad tells me there is a bloke in Bury market who will sell hot black peas to you in a Styrofoam cup. I haven't seen them in London for years.

[@risvegliato]

And here in the Black Country they are known as "Grey Pays". A dish still popular in local pubs especially in winter is "Grey pays and bacon", very warming and filling on a cold day.

[@samm44_]

Yeah my grandad from Prestwich used to make stuff called “Black Peas” and I’m pretty sure this is what they are

[@CaptainSlowbeard]

Still get them in Wigan around Halloween/bonfire neet

[@markiangooley]

“Pigeon peas” means something very different elsewhere. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_pea

[@sarahstrong7174]

I did live in Newcastke for 9 months completing my degree & I never met up with Carlin peas though I do seem to have heard of them somewhere.

[@millenntan12]

great wholesome vid!

[@leonardlakey7779]

I just happened upon your channel a few weeks ago and have thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful variety. You sir are a modern day polymath. I am quite curious as to your work background. I am a 74 year old retired electrical engineer and the grandson of British immigrants to kansas. I love learning about the UK and still make Christmas pudding every year. I usually have to import the suit and black currants from your neck of the woods..

[@ashce10]

Wow, gotta say all together it did look like quite a fantastic meal, personally I probably would've just mixed it all together after salt and vinegar on the peas, but it sure does seem interesting on its own nonetheless!

[@GreenAppelPie]

I’m an American that recently tried smashed peas in Ireland, they taste quite like black-eyed peas. Quite a bit tastier than our sorry everyday green peas. By your description these peas would be quite good, you certainly prepared them well.

[@annother3350]

Fresh green Peas from the pod are wondrous but completely different to this

[@aubreyh1930]

If you think green peas are “sorry” you’re preparing them wrong

[@JohnEZang]

@@aubreyh1930 he’s probably talking about green peas in a can which are indeed an abomination.

[@slugabunny5138]

You really are a great cook

[@peterszar]

That Pan Haggerty meal sure looks substantial. Can you even move after eating that meal? Looks like a two belt holes meal ha ha.

[@aquowf]

I enjoyed watching you cook, it would have been great to hear you narrate that.

[@chloepyper4947]

My mum's side of the family are from up North aswell and lived around Durham, I also lived in Trimdon colliery for a few years which I don't think is far from Easington, but I was born and bred in South Yorkshire so I always say it's up north 🤣

[@mcescher1957]

Oh my heavens!!!! Forget the stinkin' brown peas....that potato, onion and bacon dish is making my mouth water!!! Something I HAVE to try!!!

[@benedictnothing]

Interesting! I was born in Easington and lived all 41 years of my life in the North East, and have never heard about any of this. I'm guessing it'll be one of those many traditions my Gran would know about but has faded away over recent generations.

[@connorboyle]

Easington is right next to where I live in Hartlepool

[@acidstrummer]

By the end of it I'm wondering why we still need the peas at all, that grub looks amazing.

[@annother3350]

They're the icing on the cake

[@dexterfitben]

I'm from the north east, i remember carlin peas vaguely from my aunt Joan. She used to say, "Carlin Sunday, pumping Monday".

[@jabtothehead9942]

I'm from the north east too, my grandparents always had these on Carlin Sunday. nobody else seems to know what they are?

[@euniceswan2751]

It's tradition here in Durham you soak them all night . Next dayyourince them out them in abowl orbag and take them down to the club on Carlin Sunday where they are sprinkled with rum and eaten raw. Oh happy days. Memories of my dad and his pals..

[@euniceswan2751]

I wish I could go to the big club with my dad today and scoff carlings. On a date 😍😉😉😉

[@510newguy]

I'm an american from the southwest united states and have never seen anything like this meal but it looks really good!

[@MrBanzoid]

Carlin peas on Carlin Sunday takes me back to when I was a kid in Washington, County Durham. (It's in Tyne and Wear now). I live in Billingham now and nobody I know has ever heard of them. Thanks for all your eclectic videos. Cheers.

[@untitled5083]

Can you stop uploading? You really don't want me to go outside do you? jk love this channel.

[@LeAwesomeful]

I have good news from the future

[@ascdeg]

Hinerangi Curtis We bear good news and bad news for this man.

[@benny_lemon5123]

Depending on your perspective, this comment aged like milk lol

[@luging2051]

I’m from newcastle and I’ve never heard off this

[@euniceswan2751]

You are wierd if you ain't heard of these. Your parents were not North Eastern ?

[@NiskRanThawll]

born and bred in newcastle, multiple generations. never seen these before... but deffo the kind of thing id be game for trying. my mother was quite traditional so i was raised with all the local stuff.... maybe they just fell out of availability for her?

[@delmonti]

...Oh my.... I was born in Easington Colliery, left in '93 (no, I wasn't a ballet dancer). My Dad & Brother were miners. Small World

[@leea8706]

I don’t know why it’s so weird seeing places close to me mentioned on KZbin, but it is. Maybe because it’s so small and usually no one has heard of it. I live a couple of miles away from Easington Colliery.”, although I’m originally from Scotland. Anyway, I love your videos. The scam baiting ones are definitely my favourite, and the reason I subscribed, but the others are brilliant too, you’ve got great variety in your content. I don’t think it’ll be long till you have a lot more subscribers, you definitely deserve it.

[@repetetivebeats]

I watch a lot of Ashens and Jim Browning and feel that within a theoretical venn diagram that Atomic Shrimp would be the centre segment.

[@sveinbjrnv7291]

When you said Easington colliery my head shot up lol I'm also from the south by my dad is from Easington colliery

[@davidcarr4991]

Similar to your background, I have lived my entire life in the south of England although both of my parents were from the North East - mum from Seaham, dad from Byker NoT. My mum often mentioned pan haggerty but, sadly, I never got to sample it. Likewise stottie cake, which I imagined actually being cake, but found out was more of a bread.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I've tried Carlin black label :)

[@bobrobert1123]

That looks really good!

[@mogroable]

In Dutch would they be called capucijners?

[@themaypole]

Have to try andmake that panhaggety tomorrow

[@brianartillery]

The company, 'Hodmedod', come from Suffolk, and specialize in pulses. Another Suffolk company, and whose products I like, are 'Stokes', (#notspon), who make sauces, ketchups, and other condiments. Really nice stuff.

[@griff5476]

I still eat Carlin's. Passed down from Dad and Grandma who also hail from County Durham.

[@euniceswan2751]

It is a County Durham thing ....but surely Tyneside knows of this as well?

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Never heard of (as you know I'm local to you) I love learning about regional traditions that everyone in the region know about, but almost nobody outside it does.... I wonder if there are any local foods or traditions to the central south of England that nobody outside the area even knows about?

[@AtomicShrimp]

Traditions close to home are often the hardest to even notice - but I am looking for more of these sorts of things. I would love to go on a food/tradition tour of the British Isles

[@louiealbrecht1088]

@@AtomicShrimp I would definitely be interested in such a tour; I'm from the US but I've never eaten anything in England, Scotland or Ireland (both Republic and Northern) that I didn't like ! Hurray for haggis!

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

Damn, that dish with the vegetables and bacon looks hearty enough to be a meal by itself.

[@StupidMusicalExperiments]

Pan haggerty is also known as panackelty in Teesside.

[@StupidMusicalExperiments]

And includes corned beef.

[@momoha222]

From your description, it sounds very similar to black chickpeas

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, quite similar, but darker and a bit more mealy I would say

[@craigmurphy2046]

That was interesting. Yuppers.

[@wezzbeet2923]

Few year ago I woulda been in discust but now I'm 32 and hungry it looks bangin

[@georgecrompton8663]

We call these parching peas and parched peas when they are cooked, in Lancashire. They are made like mushy peas but probably saltier, served in a cup with lots of vinegar they are sometimes referred to as medieval mushy peas because of their long history. They used to be widespread but just a few pockets left. You say they are not meant to be served cold but there's a bar snack version cooked and salted and left to go cold drained not mushy and people go round the pubs selling them in bags. That ship story i heard it was portugese, it's meant to be why Carlin sunday is celebrated. Theres probably some truth in it but it's got distorted over time it's a bit like thanksgiving for the northeast of England.

[@leea8706]

Despite being from the north east I’ve never heard about Carlin peas, although I would say panackelty is more synonymous with the County Durham/ Sunderland area than pan haggerty.

[@euniceswan2751]

Why don't you know about Carlings if you from here?

[@ramonabanik7713]

Now I have to order from a company out of California for more United Kingdom food. Here in Utah it is so hard to find any thing. This looks so yummy. My neighbour's are going to get sick of me.They are my taste-testers.

[@TulsaKanette]

pan haggerty looks delicious

[@scladoffle2472]

Somehow I've heard of neither 'Carlin Sunday' nor Carlin Peas and I've lived in Newcastle my whole life. I'm guessing it's a waning tradition?

[@davidnieve6444]

I will eat anything after someone else does! I live in Minnesota USA. and will walk on frozen lakes behind a fat person. I am 60 yes old and plan to live to 100. Having fun after you! Love the vids!

[@patricialavery8270]

Hodmedods is apparently a farm to consumer type brand of "British Beans and Pulses".lol

[@Imatallguy1]

Did anyone else hear "Take on Me" by Aha in that song halfway through? It's definitely there.

[@Tempheart414]

Cant stop watching this channel please send help

[@anjkovo2138]

You know how to eat well buddy👍😊👍

[@7cTube]

Back to the ok videos :3

[@Mike-st6dz]

Thanks for thanking me for watching, shame the ITV doesn't do that despite all the tripe they produce these days.

[@binface9]

Apparently Hodmedods is from Norfolk

[@lizadams7662]

My parents, North Yorkshire, used to talk about having carlins as kids. I never knew what they were. I'm guessing the food of poverty.

[@RonJohn63]

Dried peas, bacon and root vegetables. Obviously a cold-climate no-more-fresh-vegetables meal.

[@gerrypippin2263]

RonJohn63 that's why it's good. We live a long way from the equator and know how to make the most of seasonal food🙄

[@diesel_dawg]

If I had one of those peas, I'd coat it in a preservative so it doesn't rot, and name it George. lol

[@euniceswan2751]

Would Love to buy these in a can . Love Darlings.

[@MRMorris81]

May I stop by for dinner? 😂

[@djbarnes51]

I could eat that it looks great.

[@cinncorgi]

Missed opportunity to put "Canlin sunday" on the sign

[@ChristineDaley]

They look like garbanzos, have you compared those?

[@AtomicShrimp]

The are similar - Garbanzos are called 'chickpeas' here

[@fennecfoxfanatic]

Heh. Beans.

[@Grosserracker]

He forgot to say why he is using the can opener

[@Zooumberg]

Being a Geordie born and bred, I've never even heard of them.

[@DVincentW]

Where the fuck is George Carlin?! Dead.nice video interesting peas.