On 12/10/2010 2:04 PM, sf wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2010 17:19:15 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Fri 10 Dec 2010 10:02:35a, sf told us...
>>
>>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:08:46 -0800 (PST), >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try your favorite recipe and use lime juice instead of lemon. May
>>>> not be authentic, but it sure is good. And using garbanza beans
>>>> instead of chick peas is very smooth and only slightly different
>>>> in flavor for a little variety.
>>>
>>> I thought "chick pea" was just another name for "garbanzo bean".
>>> What I didn't know before yesterday was that they come split,
>>> dried and shelled if you know where to look. I'll keep an eye out
>>> for that form and maybe one of these days, I'll try my hand at
>>> making hummus.
>>>
>>
>> I thought they were also known as cici beans.
>
> Yes, but they don't use that term much in rfc or where I live. Is
> cici a more common term on the East Coast?
>

I'm on the east coast and I call them chick peas. I have heard them
referred to as cici or cece beans too, which I think is the Italian
word for garbanzo.

In the stores where I shop, the cans are labeled either chick pea or
garbanzo mostly, with an occasional cece/cici.


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