Hello John!
Maybe I was dreaming, but didn't you say this on Tuesday January 28 1997
 JP>> What are groundnuts and MANGETOUTS?
 IH>> is the english name of snow peas or sugar peas.
 JP> But why a word like MANGETOUTS?
French name for them. "Pois mangetouts" Translation "eat the lot peas."
Seems a good name to me, why "SNOW" peas for heaven's sake? Or sugar peas, 
when they're no sweeter than good garden peas?
The english tended to take the name of a hitherto unknown vegetable or fruit 
from the country from which they learnt it. Hence mangetout, aubergine, 
courgettes, all of which are french names.
All the Best
Ian
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