I haven’t had lima beans in a very long time. I vaguely remember having them a few times as a child, but I think my parents didn’t care for them and thus stopped serving them. I never got into the habit of having them. Thinking back, though, I would say that I would probably like them now; certainly more than I did as a wee one.
Not even a little.
I find myself craving them, and if we have some leftovers in the fridge, I’ll heat them up and eat them as a snack.
I don’t really like plain beans of any kind.
I like butter and salt, but lima beans aren’t my preferred butter-and-salt delivery vector.
Other way around. Lima and butter beans are two different varieties of Phaseolus lunatus. In the US, the smaller variety (Sieva type) are known as butter beans, while the larger are the Lima type.
don’t like those “baby” limas. Like the big fat fordhook lima beans which have enough flavor to stand up as a side dish on their own.
Beans I like: pintos, piquenos, white, navy, cattle, yellow-eye, black-eye, pink and some other southern “field peas.” And peanuts, of course. Legumes.
Are lima beans legumes?
Lima beans (specifically) disgust me. :eek:
Is there a way to make them EDIBLE??? If so, how?
I know for a fact this characterization is false because I buy cans of Butterbeans quite often and they are large, flat, and white or blonde beans… nothing at all like the tiny, plump, green, succotash ready Lima Beans. Their flavors are quite different as well… the small green Limas having a decidely greener flavor and less creamy texture.
… and here’s some cans of Lima Beans for comparison.
I choose “I don’t like Lima beans” and expected that to be the clear winner. However after reading the thread it occured to me that I haven’t tried them since I was a child and since my mother has a rather well known skill to cook all of the taste out of everything I should probably try them again.
devilsknew - it might be a regional thing. I’ve always called the big beans limas, and the smaller beans butterbeans. See here. Other sites, though, do seem to have it the other way around, so I suspect it’s just regional usage.
I think it is a regional usage. When I grew up down south ‘butter bean’ and ‘lima bean’ were interchangeable. more importantly, where can I find the big fat tasty Fordhook kind?
I love Lima Beans! I’m the only one in my house that does, but that’s just more for me! Butter, pepper and a dash of salt. Mmmm…
The poll didn’t list an option called “I love lima beans so much I would marry them.” So I voted other.
When my husband is out of town and I get to cook myself a meal that he wouldn’t touch, it’s lima beans. I always make extra so I can have limas for breakfast the next day.
I have leftover lima beans for breakfast, too! Mmm.
I don’t like beans at all because of the chalky texture. My only exception: fresh or frozen green beans.
That might very well be the case, but there also seems to be a consumer, and perhaps, most importantly, industry standard. And the industry standard labels Butterbeans and Lima Beans seperately, and invariably Butterbeans are of a larger white variety, and the standard “Lima Bean” is a much smaller green variety.
You don’t know this for a fact, because it Is incorrect. 10 seconds on Google will provide you with a wealth of cites.
The cafeteria is serving lima beans tomorrow. Hurray! I’m gonna get me a double bowl to go.
Life is good.
Exactly, for example, here:
Note that I am not saying this is definitive or correct. I don’t think the terminology is standardized. But it reflect my recollection growing up. 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.