W. Baker wrote:
> Julie Bove > wrote:
>> I love green beans. I bought a steamer bag of fresh green beans and
>> made them for dinner tonight. Normally I just steam them and eat
>> them. But the directions said to put butter, salt and pepper on
>> them. I also read of a recipe in a magazine that called for butter
>> and parmesan cheese on them. Now once in a while I have made green
>> beans or beans and carrots with a little olive oil. But never
>> butter. But I decided to try it.
>
>> I didn't like it! I didn't like it at all! Maybe it's because I
>> grew up eating plain vegetables. Mostly they were canned but once
>> in a while they were fresh. My grandma did make beans with bacon in
>> them, but I only remember having those a few times.
>
>> So... Do you put butter on your beans? I think the only veggie I
>> ever put butter on is potatoes. I don't even like it on corn. Once
>> in a while on popcorn, but usually I even prefer that without.
>
> I never put butter on vegetables and my mother never did. As most of
> our meals withstriing beans meals had meat, butter would nt have been
> considered.
>
> I do not like buttered vegetables and, like you, I believe it is
> because it is not what I grew up with.
>
> I eat, and enjoy many foods I did not grow up with, but somehow I
> prefer my vegetables plain, unless in some kind of dish like
> ratatouie(sp?) or those great Greek stringbeans in tasty tomato based
> sauce, or Chinese, etc.

I did have zucchini that I liked in a diner in NJ. They were stewed in
tomato sauce. I do not normally like zucchini and have never had any stewed
since that I liked. And I tried a lot of recipes.