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Default Green Beans with Potatoes

On 2016-12-26 8:50 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 10:39:22 AM UTC-10, wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 11:03:33 AM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't care for green beans but the dish looks pretty good.
>>>
>>>

>> Green beans are one of my favorite vegetables and just curious
>> as to why you don't like them. Texture, too 'green' tasting,
>> etc.?

>
> I can't say. When I was growing up the only green beans we had was canned. Those mushy things might account for my dislike. I like the green beans in a Chinese stir fried dish though.
>


I guess I had a much different experience with green beans. My father
always had a small vegetable garden and grew lots of green beans. Fresh
beans are really tasty. I never cared for canned beans. Frozen beans
were better than canned, but s but of a disappointment after fresh.