Keith Thomas wrote:

 >This is what we in Australia call 'snow peas', 'snap peas' or 'sugar-snap
 >peas'.  They are simply ordinary garden peas eaten whole and raw in the
 >pod when the seed is very small

In the US snow peas are different than sugar snaps (or snap peas). Both are
eaten whole. Snow peas have a flat pad, and sugar snaps have a round pod.

Don.