-An insult to the title; Pea Soup is the poor man's dish. It is a contemptuous nickname given by the English-speaking people to the French-Canadians, who used to eat it. In the Quebec language, the distortion of the English expression has given pissou, which also means fearful. Pea Soup is also the name Pierre Falardeau had given to his independent production company, which took several years to produce this film.