blake murphy > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:56:34 -0600, Katra >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >blake murphy wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:25:13 -0500, Nancy Young
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >The Wolf wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It is a royal pain in the butt to trim the stems though, any tricks
oh wise
> >> >> one?
> >> >
> >> >I find it therapudic (sp) to snap green beans, but if I was in a
hurry,
> >> >I'd line them up and whack with a knife. One end, then line up the
> >> >other end. Whack. Hardly work.
> >> >
> >> >nancy
> >>
> >> i've always thought than snapping your beans had the same purpose as
> >> snapping asparagus - you get rid of the more fibrous parts.
> >>
> >> your pal,
> >> blake
> >
> >
> >Are you, like, into old threads or what??? :-)
> >
> >You snap beans to get rid of the strings.
> >
> >K.
>
> most of the green beans i get are from the supermarket - they don't
> seem to have significant strings.
>
> your pal,
> blake

The majority of varieties of green beans on the market today have had the
'string' bred out of them. Actually you have to grow one of the very old
varieties, mostly pole beans, to have a string at all.

JonquilJan

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