Some Catholics, in a desperate attempt to save the lives of their starving children, accepted this preferential treatment by converting to an alien faith and became known as 'Croghan Soupers' - named after a landed aristocracy in Roscommon. In some cases, soupers were protected by British soldiers from their co-religionists. The Roles & Attitudes of Irish Protestants During the Potato Famine, Seán Stitt.
Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!.
I can hear the bell on the buoy, but I can't see anything in this pea-souper.