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

[Charles C Doyle]

During my childhood in eastern Texas: "string beans" had to be strung (!) prior to cooking and eating, whereas "snap beans" (like Kentucky Wonders) did not require stringing--just the snapping off of the ends.


--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Margaret Lee <0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Read: "_snap beans_ (string beans)"

When I was growing up in central Virginia,  we referred to 'snap beans' as 'snaps.' They were the same as 'string beans.' My husband's family from eastern Virginia, called them exclusively 'snap beans,' not 'snaps' or 'string beans.'
--Margaret Lee

    On ‎Sunday‎, ‎March‎ ‎18‎, ‎2018‎ ‎10‎:‎13‎:‎03‎ ‎PM‎ ‎EDT, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

 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.

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-Wilson
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