"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> 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?
>
> Christine

Canned butterbeans are tan. I always thought that lima beans were the fresh
lima bean and therefore green. I thought the butterbeans were the dried
lima, cooked, and therefore tan. They aren't fava beans, the shape isn't
right.
Janet