Please Give Me A Whole Tray Of Peas

About

Please Give Me A Whole Tray Of Peas refers to a viral video of gameplay footage from the 1995 educational PC game Jumpstart 1st Grade in which a young girl asks for a whole tray of peas during a food service minigame meant to teach fractions. The video resulted in a number of edits on YouTube throughout 2020 and 2021, going viral on TikTok at the same time where it saw significant use as an original sound.

Origin

On August 28th, 1995, video game developer JumpStart released the educational PC game Jumpstart 1st Grade, consisting of a number of educational minigames. One minigame puts the player in the shoes of a cafeteria worker. Children line up in front of the counter, displaying an array of food represented largely by photographs, and tell the player what they want to eat in a fraction (for example, "please give me one-third of a tray of beans"). The player then selects the food and places it on the tray accordingly.

On July 11th, 2020, TikToker^[1] @airaperegrino, aka Aira, posted a gameplay clip of the minigame with no context, garnering over 3.7 million views in 10 months (shown below).

Spread

Aira's video inspired over 1,600 TikTokers^[5][6] to use it as an original sound, resulting in a number of successful videos and most notably original animations (examples shown below, left and right).

On July 13th, YouTuber^[2] Wilkins And Wonkins and more posted the clip, garnering over 2,100 views in 10 months.

On July 14th, YouTuber^[3] Limezapper uploaded a higher quality version of the clip, garnering over 934,000 views in the same span of time (shown below).

On July 29th, YouTuber 22 memes uploaded a video of a duck being fed a bowl of peas set to the sound of the video, garnering over 121,000 views in 10 months (shown below).

The video was re-uploaded numerous times to YouTube and TikTok, notably on August 2nd, 2020 by YouTuber^[4] • amirul draws •, garnering over 1.9 million views in nine months. In early 2021, a number of users uploaded new edits of the video to YouTube.

On April 19th, 2021, YouTuber^[7] Dashy YT posted a video showcasing a Friday Night Funkin' mod set to the clip, garnering over 73,000 views in a month (shown below, left). On April 21st, YouTuber^[8] Argi A posted an edit of the video combining the clip and audio with audio from Filthy Frank's video "ravioli ravioli,"^[9] garnering over 44,000 views in three weeks (shown below, right).

On April 30th, Twitter^[10] user @Sourbeefio posted an original animation based on the sound of the video, garnering over 3,200 likes and 720 retweets in a week (shown below).

Various Examples

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