Nancy Young wrote on 26 Jan 2006 in rec.food.cooking

>
> "notbob" > wrote
>
> > On 2006-01-26, Dave Smith > wrote:
> >
> >> means that they are a variety with a tasty pod and not too
> >> coarse a string.
> >
> > Now see, that's what I was talking about. Sure, different varieties
> > have different seasons and different skins and pest resistance, etc,
> > but I was referring mainly to a difference in taste. While I agree
> > that you are essentially correct in that ***haricot verts*** means
little
> > more than green beans, I was looking for more that simple response,
> > which you have provided under continued harassment (heh...).
>
> Hey, I got him to say something more clever than Green. Bean.
> Didn't I?
>
> nancy
>
>

Wouldn't that be haricots vert...green beans ...not haricot
verts...greens bean.

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