From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Snag wrote:   
   ...   
   >    Thanks for the quick responses ! These are a shiny bean , larger than   
   > kidney or Navy beans . I planted all I had , so no pics until they   
   > mature . I have one more strip I might plant with some cowpeas , I just   
   > don't know which I want to grow . Probably the Red Rippers , we like   
   > them with a chunk of ham and some seasoning . We don't eat a lot of   
   > beans , the wife got pretty much all she cared to eat while growing up .   
      
     i grew up eating mainly one kind of bean the small pea navy   
   bean, white, bland, not much going for them in terms of flavor.   
      
     later on after we discovered Tex-Mex and Mexican food then   
   at least i started to have other beans and now since i grow so   
   many i keep discovering more varieties.  a lot of them do have   
   different tastes and textures so if you cook them plain in water   
   you can learn to enjoy them in different ways besides cooking   
   them with chunks of meat (which masks a lot of the flavor to   
   me).  we do make baked beans with meat and spices once in a   
   while too, but most of the beans i make are plain so they can   
   then be adapted later if desired.   
      
     i hope those beans grow for you, i have no memory exactly   
   of what they were.  :)  if you stored them in the freezer   
   they should be ok.  i did see in my messages that i mostly   
   did send you beans that were grown that season, but i didn't   
   list them anywhere i could find quickly.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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