I remember canned peas at our childhood dinner table. They were boiled down to a certain nutrient-free and tasteless grey, but when launched from a fork handle bopped sharply with the heel of your hand, those peas stuck to the kitchen ceiling better than anything but oatmeal.
Beans and asparagus had a harder time of it; they fell apart on both sides of the fork, while only the middle piece gained any altitude. Liver, fried with bacon for an hour or so, stayed in one piece but had no sticking power and bounced back down to be grabbed by (or fed to) the dog.
And so it was.
Now we grow our own peas, the ones in a pod that ripen in June. What a hoot.
LIFEGROWER: Be happy. Grow stuff. 
You sound like you were quite the handful as a young sprout. Cleaning/repainting ceilings is quite a chore – lol!
Yep, but I had four brothers helping….
Without even knowing them, your parents had to be saints.
Mother. Father had died. But she was a prize.
And apparently very tolerant – lol!