N.Y. Times skewered online for telling readers to add peas to guacamole

On the Wednesday before the Independence Day long weekend, the New York Times had a modest suggestion for a party condiment.

That's right. Peas.

Peas in the guacamole.

We're not making this up.

While many Canadians were taking the day off, maybe unplugging from the internet, the recipe seriously tested the trust Americans have inone of the country's newspapers of record.

In the replies to the above tweet, many people simply wouldn't have it.

As it happens, U.S. President Barack Obama was holding a Twitter Q&A Wednesday afternoon using the hashtag#AskPOTUS. A journalist with IJ Review asked the president to address this burning issue.

On this, Obama and one of the would-be Republican candidates for the presidential election, Jeb Bush, were united.

Yes, a journalist actually emailedBush to get his take on whether peas belong in guac.

For Republicans in Texas, this was yet another example of Yankees sticking their noses where they clearly don't belong.

The reaction to the recipe reverberated around Twitter and carried on into Thursday morning.

Remarkably, though, the reaction to the pea-guacamole was not all bile and vitriol. Some people actually tried it.

So, what do you think? Would you be willing to try guacamole and peas? Share your thoughts in the comments.