In Shreveport I ate red beans (with rice). In Miami I ate black beans (also with rice). In Houston I ate kidney beans in chilli and brown beans with cornbread. In Detroit I ate white Northern (also called Navy) beans with cornbread and the cornbread had SUGAR in it. :-( Here in Kentucky when the menu says "Soup Beans and C/B" you can bet it will be brown pintos cooked for hours and served with chopped onions. Accompaniments are usually fried potatoes, sauerkrout or a green tomato relish. To the writer who had never heard of green beans: What do the labels in your grocery say? My Stokely and Del Monte labels don't say snap or string, but they do say Green Beans. Sue McN.