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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> 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?
I've never eaten beans that way, except fresh lima beans...they are the only 
beans I've had that are shelled and eaten fresh. I've also had garbonzo 
beans and edemae, but they've been canned. Beans here are dried and eaten 
with other things...in soup, baked in sauce, with rice, etc. I've never been 
able to identify half the beans I've eaten...I can identify the 
basics...kidney bean, limas, northern, pinto, cranberry, but most other 
beans look alike to me.

 So they are snapped and cooked like green
> beans, too?  Not just for salads?  Tell me why I should plant and like
> wax beans.

They can be cooked like green beans. They aren't that different; a little 
more 'meaty' or mealy, maybe. They aren't grown much here, either. I just 
grow them because I like they way they look mixed with the greenbeans.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA