On Sat 08 Jan 2005 01:51:14p, jmcquown tittered and giggled, and giggled
and tittered, and finally blurted out...

> 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

I like the way forkhook's "pop" in the mouth when you bite into them.

Wayne