And not having an appetising recipe for tinned peas, I turned for inspiration to the PM's love of curry.
While modern trains seal us in like tinned peas, this one has antique observation platforms with brass rails so you can stand outside in the fresh mountain air.
At the lakeside Listvyanka hotel, we enjoyed a hearty Russian breakfast - fried spam with sour cream and tinned peas - as we took in the view.
It can be used for tinned green peas and other vegetables, jellies, sauces, fish, desserts, and dry bakery mixes at level of up to 100 mg/kg.
That chore out of the way, Frost directed Webster to some appalling little back-seat transport cafe where they dined on burnt sausages, greasy chips, and tinned peas.
'We lived off corned beef and tinned peas,' Fitzjohn says.
It can be used in mint sauce, desserts, gravy granules, sweets, ice creams, and tinned peas.
Elizabeth David thought she'd found "the most revolting recipe ever devised", an "Italian salad" containing macaroni, raw minced onion and carrot, and tinned peas.
During the 20 minutes for which we talk, Cluderay receives calls from by three different suppliers eager to offload water, tinned peas and sweets.
She'd eaten grayish-green tinned peas that reminded her of nothing so much as boiled dust.