a bag of peas or corn? Did she mean frozen veggies, to cool the area down? I guess that would explain it.

My first thought was an old Yom Kippur joke about 3 guys who get caught nibbling chicken wings in the back of the synagogue towards the end of the fast day. The rabbi says that for atonement they have to put dried peas in their shoes for a week. Well, after a week they meet up and two of them can barely walk, but the third is just fine. The two who are limping ask if he didn't do as the rabbi told him ... didn't he put dried peas in his shoes? Third guy replies, "Sure I did, but the rabbi didn't say I couldn't cook them first."