Janet Bostwick wrote:
> "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

I grew lima beans (oddly enough) as a child in Virginia. They were green
until I let them dry out, then they were whiteish. Butterbeans are larger
and not the same thing at all and yes, the canned ones are big and tan or
buttery looking.

Jill