And frozen peas are good for cooking, having had the slide of sugar into starches halted by freezing within an hour or two of harvesting. The truth is that home-grown peas are perfect eaten within seconds of picking, minutes at most, often within a few feet of the plant, as sweet, raw treats.
Markdown is a related term of markup. As nouns the difference between markdown and markup is that markdown is a reduction in price in order to stimulate sales while markup is the notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.
What is a 'Markdown'. The difference between the highest current bid price among dealers in the market for a security and the lower price that a dealer charges a customer. Dealers will sometimes offer lower prices in order to stimulate trading; the idea is to make the money back in extra commissions. BREAKING DOWN 'Markdown'. In the market for a security, bid prices are the prices that would-be buyers are offering, while ask prices are the prices that would-be sellers are offering. The difference between the highest bid price and the lowest ask price is called the bid-ask spread.