In article >,
says...
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> On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 06:38:33 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 07:51:16 -0600, Janet B >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:50:13 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
> > >
> > >snip
> > >>
> > >>I thought hummus was made with chickpeas. You can vary the bean, but
> > >>that ain't no hummus no more.
> > >
> > >Chickpeas and garbanzo beans are the same thing.
> >
> > O, really? Confusing.
>
> In that case you're also confused by aubergine/eggplant and
> courgette/zucchini. No problem, I was too - but I learned. I was
> also flummoxed by the garbanzo (which is the way I learned it), chick
> pea, ceci (cece) bean are alternative words - but I learned to connect
> the dots.
>
> What flummoxes me to this day is "broad bean". When I think about
> "broad bean", it brings to mind the Italian broad bean
> https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/64....265922022.jpg
> but when Europeans say "broad bean" they are talking about what I know
> as "fava" beans http://www.hungryagain.net/images/favaing-798623.jpg
> I'd like to know what they call the Italian broad bean!

Vicia faba = fava beans = fave in Italian = broad beans.

For "butter beans" see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_lunatus

The ones we have here are the yellow variety Phaseolus lunatus var.
macrocarpus; bigger than lima beans.

Janet UK