Hi, guys -- What are green beans? String/snap beans? I remember Kentucky Wonders as being yellow -- at least when they came out of a can. Lima beans -- aren't they green? I grew up in the suburbs of Richmond from the 30's on, and I never heard anyone say "green beans." Except for a New Yorker, once, and I think he'd been drinking. Maybe it's the advertising people who did it, trying to get away from the idea of the strings -- which were a nuisance. First we had string beans (though my country relatives called them snaps, and the Department of Agriculture called them snap beans)-- then we had stringless beans -- are they now green beans? Why such an ambiguous term? Interestingly enough, I was surprised recently when preparing string beans for the first time since the 50's. I snapped them and tried to pull the strings -- and guess what? They didn't have any! What hath God wrought? Tom Robertson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Beans & beds > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:08:33 -0500 > From: "Edgar A. Howard" <ehoward@conknet.com> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Date sent: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 01:43:17 EST > To: ehoward@conknet.com > Subject: Re: Beans & beds > > <<Please tell me you are kidding? > > When I ask for clarification of the terms it was not for myself. > Remember that I speak for the List and not just myself. I know what a > feather tick is. We never dried green beans, we canned them. Why > would someone dry what they could can??