pea-soupers

Updated: May 12, 2025

Pea-soupers and lime-juicers are strangers off shipboard. They'd never have spotted you, though, without the bundle. There's no raw-meat tint about you; you're tanned like a native. Buy a blue jumper and get a cabbage-tree up in place of that cap, and you'd pass muster as a Sydney-sider born and bred. 'A cabbage-tree? 'Hat straw. Get a second-hand one if you can: they're more appreciated.

Edward Dyson - In the Roaring Fifties