International Mushy Pea Day (IMPD), launched by Falmouth's Harbour Lights fish restaurant, is back for a second year running on the November 9.

After the brilliant fun had during the inaugural event last year, the popular Fish and Chip Restaurant is a-peas-ing the masses with its plans for 2018’s big green day and this year, it is set to be bolder, brighter and probably more bonkers too. Ha-pea days!

Unbeknown to most, mushy peas, also known as ‘Yorkshire caviar’, are normal peas just grown for two weeks longer.

The ‘proper’ etiquette for eating peas is to squish them on the back of your fork and chomp away and another fun fact is that peas boiled with onion and spiced with cinnamon is a strong aphrodisiac – now that sounds a-pea-ling!

The arrival of International Mushy Pea Day also fits in very nicely with the brilliant Food Foundation initiative ‘Peas Please’, making a pledge for more veg due to declining consumption levels.

Last year, the pilot idea was picked up quickly by the trade and by fish and chip shops and restaurants throughout the UK with eight countries as far afield as New Zealand getting involved.

This year, the celebration will be taken to a whole new level with Harbour Lights Restaurant committing to the following:

• Peas Sir, Can I have Some More? As part of International Mushy Pea Day 2018, 20,000 portions of delicious mushy peas will be given for free to schools across the UK and Cornwall

• Forget Popeye and his spinach, our forces are eating peas: Mushy peas will also be given complimentary to UK forces in time for International Mushy Pea Day

• Promote those peas: Asking participating shops and restaurants internationally to run pea promos, create a pea special, or give a donation to local or national charities

• Cheers peas! A posh pea wine pairing (celebrity chef involvement TBC)

• Competition time: Harbour Lights will be running a mushy competition across its social media channels giving pea-fanatics the opportunity to win free fish and chips for a year

• A mushy pea donation to a Cornwall-based food bank with shops across the UK being invited to do similar

• November 9: - Owner of Harbour Lights Restaurant in Falmouth and founder of International Mushy Pea Day, Pete Fraser will be available throughout the day in London dressed as a pea pod if wished for media interviews

• Mushy peas for media – traditional fish and chips and peas dinner in ‘visual’ London fish and chip shop (location TBC)

The website www.mushypeaday.com will act as a portal for ideas and activities for International Mushy Pea Day being populated with great ideas, photographic evidence, an original mushy pea song and recipes.