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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Waxing on about beans
  • Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:10:33 -0400

I think Northern nomenclature makes much more sense. I knew the 'peas'
were really beans, but they are called field peas nevertheless. Lynn,
if you saw a bowl of them on a table at Sunday dinner, what you call
them?? What kind of beans?

Wax beans...
This is another thing that Southerners just don't grow much. I see them
in bean salads on salad bars, but I've always been afraid to try it.
Someone give me a wax bean(yellow bean) tutuorial...how different do
they taste-you'd think they could come up with a more appetizing name
than wax bean, wouldn't ya? So they are snapped and cooked like green
beans, too? Not just for salads? Tell me why I should plant and like
wax beans.

Bev


Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
English peas are also called sweet peas. I have not heard them called shell peas.

Sweet peas here usually means the pea plants grown only for the flower (although I've heard fresh green peas called sweet peas, too).
"Shell pea" here refers to fresh English peas that you remove from the shell to eat (i.e. not snap peas or snow peas). Your pretty little red field pea would be considered a bean here...there are hundreds of types of beans. "Bean" in this part of the country applies to both the green bean and the dried bean; all are Phaseolus,
but 'green bean' is usually applied the the type eaten green (Kentucky Wonder, etc), although, of course, you can dry them, too...then they'd be dried or shell beans (because you remove them from the shell, I guess). Then there's wax beans, which people around
here call "yellow green beans". Go figure. Who would have thought beans could get so complicated?


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