When we get down close to where we live, it's amusing that we need lexicons and glossaries to kow what each other are saying.
As in Bev's more southernly clime, here if you say "We're having beans" it mean green breans, and that's what they are called. The term 'snap bean' is heard and used but it is as foreign to our ears as calling them 'haricots".
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.
Here if you just say "bread" it means cornbread. The bleached white wheat bread in the stores is "light bread". A comment on something's
impermanence is "That won't last until the bread gets done" refers
to the very short time it takes to make cornbread.
Lots and lots of those things.
By the bye, in referring to green beans as 'haricots', is anyone here
a fan of Zydeco music?
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