"sf" > wrote in message
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> 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?

no, I did not say that.