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Default Southern Creamy Butter Beans

On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 19:34:48 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 9:13:35 PM UTC-6, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >
> > They're all lima beans... there are several colors of lima beans...
> > butter beans is a US southern colloquialism; like pancakes, hotcakes,
> > flapjacks are all the same thing... like sub, hero, grinder are all
> > the same thing.
> >
> >

> True, true. But I sure was expecting those beans to be green!


We call the green ones baby limas. There's also a size larger than
the regular beige one the Greeks call "gigantes" that are raved about.


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