# How often do you find stones in your lentils?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-find-stones-in-your-lentils/82269>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-find-stones-in-your-lentils/82269 "2001-09-17T22:43:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-find-stones-in-your-lentils/82269/21 "2012-11-26T17:13:05Z")

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The only hard object I’ve ever discovered in beans or lentils was so lentil-shaped and lentil-colored that I doubt I would have found it by a pre-cooking sort anyway.

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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-find-stones-in-your-lentils/82269/22 "2012-11-26T19:43:22Z")

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Forgive my ignorance but where do the stones come from? Aren’t all lentils and beans grown above ground in pods? Potatoes are below the surface of the ground so I can understand some dirt clogs or stones there, but in beans?

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-find-stones-in-your-lentils/82269/23 "2012-11-26T23:22:09Z")

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I swear to Og, my brain keeps trying to turn the thread title into some sort of Cockney euphemism…

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-find-stones-in-your-lentils/82269/24 "2012-11-26T23:35:16Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> I swear to Og, my brain keeps trying to turn the thread title into some sort of Cockney euphemism…

“Oy? A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind man, ey?”

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