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Since black-eyed peas are a bean, as was previously explained, they taste and feel like beans. More precisely, they taste a lot like chickpeas—earthy and faintly nutty. The black "eye" in the middle of the bean, where the bean was joined to the pod, is where the vegetable gets its name. Originally, the beans were named mogette, which is French for "nun," since some people thought the black eye looked like the headgear worn by nuns.
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