1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas:
Beside this, every other day we had what English seamen call "shot soup" — great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by rolling about in tepid water.
1950, Robert W. Krepps, The Courts of the Lion, page 80:
They ate in relays, surprised to find their appetites good: they wolfed salt junk and a weak concoction of peas in broth called shot soup.
