[Ads-l] Read: "_snap beans_ (string beans)"

[Wilson Gray]

That is, "snap beans" are merely string beans that have been "snapped."

When I was but a tad, down yonder in East Texas, "snap beans" and "strang
beans" were *not* the same thang, any more than black-eyed peas and
purple-hulled peas were considered to be the same thing.

Unfortunately, I can't go any farther with this. I'm now the patriarch of
the Texas branch of my family and there's no one older with whom I can
check out my childhood memories.

-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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