# Do you like lima beans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834 "2011-11-13T21:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/61 "2011-11-17T22:29:50Z")
I LOVE limas, but only have them for Thanksgiving, for some odd reason. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/62 "2011-11-18T00:43:58Z")
Between eating a Lima bean and starvation I would at least give starvation some consideration. Maybe it’s a genetic thing with me. Blech ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/63 "2011-11-19T10:38:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > We never had the small or medium types of lima beans around–we always had the big ones, maybe the size of a quarter or large across. I can vouch that the standard Blonde Butterbean is at least a quarter width, they are so large they are more accurately described a fifty cent irregular spheroids. Much larger or equal to even the widest green Lima Bean of the large type I ate way back in the 70’s and 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/64 "2011-11-19T13:54:09Z")
I don’t eat legumes anymore, but Lima beans and butter beans are my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/65 "2011-11-19T13:55:06Z")
luuurve them, canned frozen or fresh, mmmm lima beans… ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/67 "2011-11-19T16:57:44Z")
Lima beans, no, butter beans, a type of lima bean, love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/68 "2011-11-19T20:08:25Z")
I like lots and lots of different beans. But lima beans are on the short list of ones I really don’t care for. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/69 "2011-11-19T20:55:15Z")
Lima beans, like the Praying Mantis, are proof that there is a “God” and that said “God” hates me personally. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/70 "2011-11-19T21:26:29Z")
They’re only known as butterbeans here in the UK. I love them, especially in soups and casseroles. I think they’re sort of potato-ey - so I sometimes mash them together with potatoes to top a shepherd’s pie. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/71 "2011-11-20T17:40:41Z")
I love lima beans–little butter, little salt, some pepper. They’re one of the few beans I can eat warm (the rest I love cold). ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/72 "2011-11-21T02:06:24Z")
I do not like them, which is strange because I like most foods and all other legumes. To me, they don’t have a discernible flavor. They taste like… mush. And have an unappealing stiff dry (mushy) texture. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834/73 "2011-11-21T03:10:00Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Lima beans - another good vegetable, typically overcooked. > > Tasty. Actually from what I understand of the large, green, Lima Beans is that they benefit from a long boil perhaps with a change of water- a good leaching- because of their inherently high level of cyanicides. Perhaps, that is why they harvest and process them young and small, per industry standards nowadays. Less likely to cause tummy aches. Maybe the ultimate antioxidant, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-lima-beans/602834.md?page=3)