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Pea soup or split pea soup is soup made typically from dried peas such as the split pea. It is with variations a part of the cuisine of many cultures. It is greyish-green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum.Pea soup has been eaten since antiquity; it is mentioned in Aristophanes’ The Birds and according to one source the Greeks and Romans were cultivating this legume about 500 to 400 BC.
