Meaning
A thick, hearty soup of red kidney beans ('red peas') simmered with salt beef or pig's tail, ground provisions, coconut milk, spinners (little flour dumplings), thyme, and scotch bonnet. A classic Saturday-soup staple, red peas soup is a filling one-pot meal in itself, warming and rich, and a fixture of the Jamaican week (Saturday being traditional soup day).
Examples
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Saturday a soup day — red peas soup a bwile.
Saturday is soup day — red peas soup is cooking.
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She put spinners an salt beef inna di red peas soup.
She put spinners and salt beef in the red peas soup.
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Di red peas soup thick an full.
The red peas soup is thick and filling.
Origin
From 'red peas' (red kidney beans) + 'soup'; a hearty Saturday soup. See [[stew-peas]], [[rice-and-peas]].
How it’s used
Thick kidney-bean soup with salt meat and spinners; classic Saturday soup. See [[stew-peas]], [[pumpkin-soup]].