Question: are black eyed peas the same as purple hull peas?
Answer: What are PurpleHull Peas? PurpleHull Peas - a great reason for a festival if there ever was one - are close cousins to the more familiar, but less tasty, black-eyed peas. They are members of the "cow pea" or "southern pea" family, just as are black-eyed peas and crowder peas.