Another dish people can thank French Canadians for is split pea soup, a winter specialty in Canada. The most authentic version includes whole yellow peas, salted pork, and herbs.
He sat on the main log and ate his noon dinner of corn bread and fried salt pork and joked with the gray squirrels that frisked and peeped at him from high forks of nearby walnut trees.
No supper was so good as the thick bean porridge, flavored with a small bit of salt pork, that Ma dipped onto the tin plates when Pa had come home cold and tired from his hunting.