I am in Texas and we call them Green Beans and/or String Beans.. Green Beans and New potatoes. And my Lima beans are cooked with butter and called Butter Beans and are for from green. And my Pinto Beans are very red. margie -----Original Message----- From: Tom Robertson <kf6dav@home.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 2:59 PM Subject: Green Beans >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?? > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#6 HELP is available from the sysop/owner anytime at: > ehoward@conknet.com or swvaroot@swva.net >