Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
wrote:
> She did cook Lima beans, though, which I hated then and hate now. Not
> many people realize that the Lima bean is not actually a bean, but a
> small plastic packet stuffed with a mixture of old mashed potato and
> fine sand, stitched closed by ancient half-blind Peruvian women, and
> sent to America to wreak Peru's terrible terrible revenge on American
> children.
On the other hand, butter beans, which are fully ripened and dried
lima beans, are really good. I like to heat up a can, with a little
real butter, and pour the beans and juice onto a slice of sourdough
bread, adding salt and black pepper. I suspect this, with regular
bread instead of sourdough, is a Depression-era remnant that I picked
up from my parents.
Mary "It certainly has all the earmarks of such."
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) <reunite....@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:34:35 -0800, Kurt Busiek <ku...@busiek.com>
>wrote:
>
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>> She did cook Lima beans, though, which I hated then and hate now. Not
>> many people realize that the Lima bean is not actually a bean, but a
>> small plastic packet stuffed with a mixture of old mashed potato and
>> fine sand, stitched closed by ancient half-blind Peruvian women, and
>> sent to America to wreak Peru's terrible terrible revenge on American
>> children.
>
>On the other hand, butter beans, which are fully ripened and dried
>lima beans, are really good. I like to heat up a can, with a little
>real butter, and pour the beans and juice onto a slice of sourdough
>bread, adding salt and black pepper. I suspect this, with regular
>bread instead of sourdough, is a Depression-era remnant that I picked
>up from my parents.
Butter Beans are great, Lima Beans, not so much. In fact I never considered
that they might be related. And in fact, it's not entirely clear, but
Wiki suggests that what we Southerners commonly call a butter bean is
a different cultivar than what is normally called a lima bean (Sieva / Dixie /
Henderson). Also butter beans are not usually prepared from dried beans.
Ted
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