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

[Wilson Gray]

> During my childhood in eastern Texas: "string beans" had to be strung (!)
prior to cooking     > and eating

Thanks, Charlie!  I *thought* that I remembered that string beans had to be
strung, but I couldn't - and still can't - remember how it was done, So, I
left that out. As far as I can recall with certainty, we chirren snapped
snap beans - we not only snapped off the ends, but also snapped the bean
itself "half in two" - and hulled purple-hulled peas and Anglish peas, but
our grandmother did the "stringing" of the string beans.

> They were the same as 'string beans.'

I was never able to the snap beans from the string beans by taste. And
purple hulls and black eyes also looked and tasted the same, after they'd
been cooked.

But I could easily tell collard, turnip, mustard, spinach, and beet greens
apart, both by look and by taste.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> 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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> 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.
>
> --
> -Wilson
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-Wilson
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