"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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>
> jmcquown wrote:
> > I hear so many people malign this poor bean. I love them. I'm talking
> > about the green ones, not the ones that are brownish-yellow in colour
(which
> > I call butter beans).
> >
> > Do you like them? Do you hate them?
>
> I love them. Lima beans and butter beans are synonymous, exactly the
> same bean... but typically the hillybillys call them butter beans. The
> color hasn't a whit to do with anything other than soil/climate
> conditions where grown, whether fresh or dried/frozen or canned, and
> how cooked.
>
> Sheldon
>

Homegrown limas were green, both fresh and dried. Butterbeans are a white
or tannish white. My father grew both, in the same soil. Butter beans
often reached the size of a quarter.
-ginny