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A vegetable engineered by humans to be eaten alive, pod and all, regret-free.
means An edible-podded pea variety with thick, crunchy, rounded pods you eat whole rather than shelling.
from The 'snap' is the same one in 'snapdragon' and 'snap beans' — an English word imitating the brisk sound of something breaking cleanly, here the satisfying crack of the crisp pod. The vegetable itself is genuinely young: the sugar snap was developed by an American plant breeder in the 1970s, crossing a snow pea with a thick-podded mutant to combine flat-pod tenderness with rounded sweetness. So unlike most foods, its name and its existence are roughly the same age — the word didn't drift to the plant, the plant arrived ready-named.
- Lab origin
- Bred in the 1970s by crossing pea types
- Eat whole
- No stringy peeling, no waste, no mercy
- Sweet trick
- Sugar in pods drops fast after picking
- Climbing plant
- Vines grab anything with curling tendrils
- Cool lover
- Thrives in spring, sulks in summer heat
sugar snap pea — developed by calvin lamborn at rogers seeds in 1978, trademarked variety with edible pods
burpee sugar snap — commercial cultivar by burpee seeds, most widely sold snap pea variety in north america