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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

Bev...To me they taste about the same, but they do add that different color 
to the 3 bean salad.  They are cooked just like the green beans.
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
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  From: EarthNSky 
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  Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:10 PM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Waxing on about beans


  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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