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

Dried pinto beans shouldn't be solid colored.  Cooked pinto beans should be, 
though.  The name pinto is because they are "spotted."  They should be 
larger than the cranberry bean.  The cranberry should be more reddish and 
the pinto more brown and tan.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> Yesterday while I was in town, I went by the grocery store and I saw
> cranberry/October beans.  I bought a couple of pounds of beans to try.
> I took the opportunity to stock up on a few other beans and peas, like
> black-eyed peas(on the stove cooking now) and split green peas.
>
> The bag of beans I bought is labeled Cranberry or October beans, but
> they are mottled and actually smaller than the pintos I have.  I
> noticed, too, at the store, their brand of pintos was a mottled bean
> like the cranberry, but the pintos I have here are solid colored.
> Either way, the October beans are smaller or maybe the same size as
> pintos.  Do you just grow large Octobers or small pintos or have I just
> got small beans?
>
>
> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> > Dry shell beans are called "soup beans" and the most common type is
> > what we call "October beans" but are called dove beans and cranberry
> > beans elsewhere.  It's a very large bean that looks like a double
> > sized pinto but it is a bush bean and very easy to grow.
>
>
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