On Wed, 8 May 2013 09:14:08 -0700, "Pico Rico" >
wrote:

>
> "George M. Middius" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Pico Rico wrote:
> >
> >> Fava beans are the new ___. I can't think of anything off hand.
> >
> > The common term is "food fad".
> >
> >> They seem to grow like weeds in Italy; every otherwise not occupied
> >> nook and cranny has fava growing. But here, they are just so "today".
> >
> > Before you buy them, look into how much work is involved in preparing
> > them.
> > That alone turned me away from trying them.
> >
> >
>
> I have knocked out a case or two at a time, for a dinner seating of a few
> hundred. So, for a normal meal or crowd, it would be child's play. Sure, a
> bit more work than cutting open a bag of frozen beans of some sort.
>
You took off two sets of shells for a couple of hundred people and
called it child's play? I did that exactly once just for the two of
us and decided that I would buy packaged/frozen if I ever wanted to
cook fava beans again.

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