sf wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:51:27 -0600, "jmcquown"
> > wrote:
>
>> Fordhook limas. She said, "Oh, I don't like those." But, but,
>> Mom! You bought them all the time, and you ate them! She replied,
>> "I know, but I didn't like them at all." Huh. What was it, a State
>> Secret? Took all these years for me to learn that about her.
>>
> I'm wondering why she bought them in the first place? Did
> she make them for your father?

I don't think he'd ever had that particular type before she brought them
home that first time. I'd have to ask her, but she probably simply spotted
this new thing in stock at the [military] commissary and decided to give
them a try.

I can't imagine teenagers
> coming home and demanding lima beans for dinner, especially
> if they've never tasted them.

We'd tasted the baby limas from cans. With those I was like, oh, okay.
They weren't great but I'd never come home and request them. Then she
started discovering frozen veggies (this was in the 1970's) and, and least
to me, I found them much better than before! Mom wasn't big on using fresh
veggies as a side dish (except perhaps baked potatoes).

> Personally, I don't like big limas - but the small ones are
> okay and I really do like succotash.
>
I don't recall her ever buying frozen baby limas, but I know they were
available. <shrug>

Jill

>> Have you uncovered things about your parents eating habits you
>> simply never knew about?
>
> No.
>
> sf