God damn it how did I typo the thread title.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:34 (nine years ago) link
broad beans = fava beans iirc
i eat a ridic amount of most of these though i mostly hate peas, butter beans have freaked me out since childhood, and chickpeas are horrible apart from in falafels
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
quite a big fan of flageolets, but beans are great any road.
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
I hate peas unless they're mushy. Love chickpeas. Just had kidney beans in my chilli cheese fries for lunch.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
I use a lot of borlotti beans; chuck them in all sorts. Pad out a lasagne meat sauce, or a risotto.
i've got a puy lentil salad + pitta bread for my lunch
not mad keen on runner beans either, much prefer green beans/string beans. this might be the chunky chip vs skinny fries debate of the legume world
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
how can people not like peas for pete's sake?
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
i hate sweetcorn mind you.
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
chickpeas are very good. they're excellent in curries and salads, especially if you're vegetarian or 'going' vegetarian cos they really fill you up.
voted soy on account of soymilk, tofu and tempeh. but black beans and esp pintos are delish
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Monday, 15 September 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
sometimes I think I would be happy to eat nothing but chickpeas forever
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 15 September 2014 12:53 (nine years ago) link
fixed your title for you. How this thread doesn't include black or pinto beans is extremely troubling, but I can't edit poll options.
― how's life, Monday, 15 September 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
I've been really into purple beans lately (they are the most amazing purple when they grow on the vine but unfortunately turn green when you cook them.)
Growing beans has given me a whole new appreciation for them. Have grown broad beans (who knew they grew like that! so bizarre, like pod people! WTF!) and runner beans and French beans and borlotti beans and chick peas. I had a friend come round and visit me this morning and I spent like the first ten minutes just showing her all these different kinds of beans I had in my fridge that I'd grown.
Still probably love soy beans and adzuki beans the best, though.
Also disappointed by criminal lack of black beans.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 15 September 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
I was going to post a .jpg as an answer, but it's really hard to find a picture of refritos that does justice to how awesome they actually are.
― how's life, Monday, 15 September 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
No pinto beans? :(
― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Monday, 15 September 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
Broad beans or peas, can't choose.
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 15 September 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
are peas beans?
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 15 September 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
/gary legume-an
How this thread doesn't include black or pinto beans is extremely troubling, but I can't edit poll options.
― how's life, Monday, September 15, 2014 8:56 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea, probably my two top choices!
― marcos, Monday, 15 September 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah wtf, poll is some kinda scik joke or what
― xelab hate good times cmon (wins), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Do they even have Chipotle in the UK
― 龜, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
We do actually
― xelab hate good times cmon (wins), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
Every bean is sacred. Every bean is great. But, one cannot make hummus without chickpeas, therefore chickpeas walk off with it.
― Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
oh my god well-made houmous is sublime
― marcos, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
i have an israeli friend who wisely distinguishes real houmous from hippie houmous. this post gets at the difference between smooth, delicious houmous and chunky, dry hippie houmous: http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2007/07/hummus-dilettante.html
― marcos, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Are beans supposed to be this colour?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByPYx_fIUAI_r4Q.jpg
I mean they tasted really good (and, oddly, they cooked to a purple colour. Not unlike the purple beans we grew, which cook to... ordinary green. Go figure.)
I am so confused by all these colour changing beans.
― Aphex T (wins) (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
https://bluecottonmemory.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jellybellypile2.jpg
― you'll never guac amole (wins), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
― j., Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
a general ilx disinterest in bean ranking?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
chickpeas, maybe, but what are the big white beans they serve with tomato sauce at greek restaurants? i love those.
― syro gyra (get bent), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link