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Default Squeaky green beans.


"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:09:53 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> Does this bother you?

>
> YES!
>
>> Do you notice it?

>
> Of course! That should have been your first question, not the second.
>
>> I had a friend who said he
>> couldn't eat them because the squeaking bothered him. And I hadn't
>> noticed
>> it until he said it. Of course they won't squeak if they are cooked to
>> mush, but fresh or frozen ones often will squeak when you eat them. I am
>> eating some now and apparently easily amused!
>>

> They have to be cooked "just right". Too little and they squeak; too
> much and they're mushy. Of course, "just right" is a matter of
> personal taste and the ability to hear/feel the squeak... both for me.
>
> <shudder>


Hehehe.