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> I hate to disillusion you, Mickey, but butter beans are bigger than
limas and are sort of beige in color.
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I know the ones you refer to. I see them in the can in some
supermarkets out west here and they do say butterbeans. But as they
would say in Mississippi "them things ain't fit to eat."
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>Limas are green and smaller.
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I see these in the can in supermarkets too and even buy them if I'm
set up for cooking. They have always been called butterbeans by
Mississipians and always will be. It's probably just a cultural
thing. Rural Mississipians don't eat them out of the can. They eat
them out of the garden.
BTW, every kid from where I'm from has done duty picking and shelling
butterbeans and black eyed peas(along with their cousins, field peas,
crowder peas, and purple hull peas) at harvest time. If you want to
see some kids scatter, just walk towards where they are playing with
a bushel basket in your arms. They'll scatter in all directions for
fear of garden duty. If you want to keep the kids out of the house
just set a bushel basket full of peas or beans on the porch. They
won't come within a hundred feet of it for fear of shelling duty.
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>Both are delicious, along with black eyed peas. I just wish
>Silverton would keep the bits of ham out of the beans. Any of these
>cooked with a ham bone are scrumptous (without dried out ham bits)!
>And, good for you, too.......
> Cheers!
> Bonnie
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I have to go now. Getting hungry. I wonder if they have a soul food
restaurant in this town.
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