jmcquown wrote:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Thu 17 Nov 2005 11:50:11p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>> Christine Dabney?
>>
>>> Okay folks,
>>>
>>> We were chatting on the chat channel, and we started talking bout
>>> butter beans. I grew up in VA, and I had them all the time. To me,
>>> they are smaller than a lima, and a pale green. And they stay that
>>> way when they are cooked. Boli agrees with this description of them.
>>>
>>> Others in the discussion say they are much larger, and tan. Or buff
>>> or khaki colored.
>>>
>>> I have never seen butter beans like that...
>>>
>>> For those of you who know about butter beans, what is your
>>> description of them?
>>
>> Haven't had them for years, but I distinctly remember them being tan,
>> and about the size or a bit larger than a standard lima bean.
>
> Yep, they are tan or yellow and larger than a regular lima. That's my
> rememberance of them. Look in the canned bean aisle. My brother Scott
> insisted we have these with pork chops when we were growing up.
>
> Me, I love lima beans (the frozen Fordhook ones); canned butter beans
are
> large and mushy.
>
> Jill


Lima beans were the one food I just couldn't eat. My throat would just
clam up. It was something about the chewyness or a slime factor or bland
factor.

It's been forever since I tried them but would probably have better luck
eating them today.

Andy
One town over from Lima, PA