On 2020-02-09 7:02 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>

>> i used to make a lot of various bean mashes and dips for
>> putting on pizza crusts. making a thick corn bread like
>> pizza crust and then putting a bean dip on it and covering
>> that with cheese was a good meal for me quite a few times
>> a year when i could eat that much at one time. now i can't.
>>
>>
>> songbird
>
> Thats ok, to me the Tahini, fresh garlic and olive oil make it Hummus.
> I guess that is because they sell versions of it here that use other
> than chickpeas.
>
Yet, it is called hummus because that it the Arabic word for chick peas.