On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:43:31 -0600, Becca > wrote:

> sf wrote:
> >> Green lima beans are not my favorite, but I do like butter beans. The
> >> butter beans I eat look like this, they are about an inch long and they
> >> do not taste like lima beans to me. If they do, then I will give lima
> >> beans another try.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/FDC...ns_~920907.jpg
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Is that a picture of an Italian butter bean? When I ask here what
> > they mean when they talk about butter beans, someone will say "lima".
>
> It is a picture of large butter beans, AFAIK they are not Italian. I
> grew up eating those and speckled butter beans. The large butter beans
> are bigger than the speckled butter beans.
>
>
My head hurts now.

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Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.