Talk:Pigeon pea

message: I visited this article to find out about pidgeon peas that are used in traditional British recipes. I have now discovered that these are actually varieties of the field pea, Pisum Sativum Arvense. Thet are known as pidgeon peas in Britain and possibly in other European countries as in modern times they are used primarily as pidgeon food for those who race these birds.
Source:
http://adambalic.typepad.com/the_art_and_mystery_of_fo/2007/02/left_maple_peas
It would seem ppropriate to include a clarification in this article 82.39.231.56 (talk) 15:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambiguation, Pidgeon peas in The UK 

message: # Which of the names are used in English? 
## Where? 
# What language are the non-English ones? 
# How about transliterations of those not in Latin script? DCDuring (talk) 04:31, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative names jumbled 

message: The nutrition comparison between mature/immature seed probably doesn't take into account the greater water content of the immature seed, in which case the comparison is meaningless.  For the reader to have any confidence in the nutrition comparison, the chart should show the % water in each, or compare dry weights and state so.  USDA needs correcting too, probably. Rtdrury (talk) 10:33, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  nutrition comparison of mature/immature seeds 

message: Should Toor (Unix) be added as a disambiguation? Wikitrumpets (talk) 00:51, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  toor(Unix) 

message: Are these actually a pea or a lentil, or is legume the best we can do here? Would be nice to clarify this point explicitly. 
See the following: 
* Split Pea or Lentil? How to tell the difference — 26 June 2017
Both split peas and lentils are from the legume family they, like beans, come from a different variety of legume.
Split peas are grown specifically for drying and they split naturally when dried and lentils are the seed of a plant that is dried.
The better word for all these is pulse.
A pulse is a dry legume that grows in a pod of one to 12 seeds.
It includes beans, lentils, and peas.
Although split peas belong to the same family as beans and lentils, they are usually distinguished as a separate group because of the ways in which they are prepared.
Peas are all round or spherical and lentils are flat and round, and beans are more oval and fuller in shape. 
I've gone around the block enough with all the mind-numbing Hindi synonyms of various legume products to know that little is precisely as it first seems, so merely the presence of "pea" in the name is not good enough. — MaxEnt 22:23, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Going off the definition used on other Wikipedia pages, it seems that "split pea" and "lentil" refer to specific species of legume, in the genuses Pisum and Lens, respectively. The pigeon pea is neither of these, being in the genus Cajanus. Justin Kunimune (talk) 22:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe it may have acquired the common epithet pigeon pea because the seeds are prone to splitting and the outer skin is easily removed, as with typical green split peas, which are skinless when purchased by a consumer. To split a lentil would not be a process easily carried out by man or machine. Pigeion pea is not pisum, but it is a "pea" in the colloquial sense.--Quisqualis (talk) 23:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

text:  Are the widely-available split red lentils not actually lentils then? (I call them widely available because in my area I can find them in nearly any "mainstream" store; however, many of my neighbours are Indian, so perhaps the lentils are less available elsewhere.  TooManyFingers (talk) 03:24, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actually a pea or a lentil?  

message: The section on dehulling methods is very confusing because it starts by saying there are two methods, but when those methods are described, there seems to be nearly no difference between them. The wet method is wet; the dry method is ... also wet. 
Is the section simply a big mistake? Or is it true but requiring a better explanation? TooManyFingers (talk) 03:34, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dehulling methods: confusing 

message: Several regional names are described, and that's good. But where are they in fact commonly called "pigeon peas"? TooManyFingers (talk) 04:13, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional names - one more?