notbob > wrote:

>On 2012-05-16, Steve Pope > wrote:

>> Oh wait. You were doing this just to troll me. That's go to be it.

>Last time I looked, dried kidney beans were red and are often called
>red kidney beans.

No, they are different varieties of beans. Small red beans are
one variety, and the various kidney bean varieties are other varieties.
Small reds are not kidneys.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bean#Kidney_beans

Yeah, that page is wrong so far as I know. I have now flagged it.
So let's see if an editor can come up with an attribution for this claim.

And besides, what you are claiming is the converse: that small red beans
are sometimes called "kidney beans", as opposed to kidney beans being
sometimes called "red beans".

>I know what you are talking about, what wiki calls small red beans and
>Cook's Thesaurus calls Mexican red beans (scroll up):

>http://www.foodsubs.com/Beans.html#red kidney

I'm not familiar with "Mexican Red Beans". Mexican pink beans, yes.
But even in Mexican stores, the beans in question are call "Small Red
Beans".

They are called small red beans by every producer and packager in the U.S.,
so far as I know. Here is Archer Daniels Midland's page on them:

http://www.adm.com/en-US/products/fo...lRedBeans.aspx

>I'm no Cajun superchef, so can't comment on what is proper or not in
>the way of Cajun/Creole cuisine, but since Chuck is a NOLA native and
>been to UCLA Culinary School, I suspect he knows what he's talking
>about.

Ding! He said to use kidney beans in a red bean and rice recipe.
Ding Ding Ding! Zero credibility until rectified. Ding!



Steve