Hot food for me, it's pea soup! (4,4)

I believe the answer is:

meat pies

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'hot food for me it's pea soup' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'me it's pea soup' is the wordplay.
'soup' indicates anagramming the letters.
'its'+'pea'='itspea'
'itspea' with letters rearranged gives 'atpies'.
'me'+'atpies'='MEAT PIES'

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