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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> On a related note, I was picking through green beans at the store last
>> week,
>> and the old lady next to me asked how I was going to cook them. I told
>> her.
>> Then, she held up some large "all purpose potatoes" and said "I like to
>> put
>> the beans in the pot and boil them with the potatoes. They take about the
>> same time, you know?"
>>
>> Can you imagine those green beans? :-)
>
> I don't know about large potatoes but green beans cooked with small
> round potatoes are good. Green beans and corn mixed together are good
> too.
>

The potatoes this lady had in her hand were pretty large. I think she was
from the "boil everything until it's pudding" generation.