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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Youngest says you should grow and eat the wax beans cause they are delicious 
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Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>

> 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.