Raw Greenbeans

[jeepjeepwhat]

Backstory: I was at work the other day, and I started to snack on some raw greenbeans I picked from the garden the other day. A fellow co-worker saw me and was totally disgusted and surprised that anyone would even consider eating a greenbean raw. My co-workers background is that he is an older, good ol boy from WV that grew up on groundhog and opossum, so I was very surprised he had never tried a raw greenbean. My background is I'm in my late 20's and grew up just snacking on greenbeans from the garden while I played in the yard and most of my family does as well.

So I would like to know your feelings on eating raw greenbeans. Have you always done it, and enjoy them, or do you think the idea of a raw greenbean is inedible.

 

[btruman]

I personally don't see anything disgusting about a person eating raw green beans, BUT, I'll take mine cooked please.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I eat a lot of veggies raw. Want to taste something good??? Pull an ear of sweet corn off the stalk and eat it right there. Pretty tasty.
Same with green beens.

 

[handejector]

Ain't y'all discovered fire up 'ere in tha 'Mountains of Maryland'?
Wont us ta sen' ya sum matches?
Do y'all git mail?

 

[wbraswell]

I've tried them, they're OK. I like them crunchy like at Chinese restaurants. Of course they're best with a little pig flavor cooked in, with new red potatoes. I'm with Caj on the sweet corn, I just want it warm enough to melt a little butter. I like broccoli just steamed. I don't like it raw, and I hate it mushy.

 

[mkk41]

Of the veggies I do eat , most of them I prefer raw. Especially fresh green or yellow stringbeans. Actually , that's the only 'beans' I'll eat.

Most cook veggies in boiling water , which I think washes all the flavor out of them. If I'm gonna cook 'em , I steam or nuke 'em.

And raw sweet corn , oh yeah!

 

[Rule3]

Only those from my own garden(or other known home grown)

 

[sipowicz]

I love em with raw chicken!

 

[Broker50]

I eat 'em occasionally, along with other things that grow in a garden that I don't much like, but green beans are disgusting in general, raw or cooked. A local preference is for "White Half-Runners". I find them particularlly foul tasting. JMO.

 

[rondo]

When I was a kid, during the mid '60s, my elementary school was surrounded by bean/strawberry fields. After the fields workers had picked the crops, the farmer would notify the school and word went out - bring bags to school tomorrow, it's greenbean (or strawberry) day.

School would get out early and a hundred little kids descend on the fields. What we did not eat on the spot went into our bags for mom. Those greenbeans sure were good. I wanted to be a bean/strawberry picker when I grew up.

 

[xray97]

When I was a kid, during the mid '60s, my elementary school was surrounded by bean/strawberry fields. After the fields workers had picked the crops, the farmer would notify the school and word went out - bring bags to school tomorrow, it's greenbean (or strawberry) day.

School would get out early and a hundred little kids descend on the fields. What we did not eat on the spot went into our bags for mom. Those greenbeans sure were good. I wanted to be a bean/strawberry picker when I grew up.

Man, you were lucky! I grew up in Salem, Ore. during the mid '60s and I was a bean/strawberry picker from about the 4th grade on. There was no need to wait till you were grown up back then. I spent most summers picking strawberries, then green beans, followed by Logan/Black/ Marion berries, and then the final treat of Filbert/Hazel Nuts. You should have said something, I'd have given you my spot!
The money we made was spent on what we enjoyed the most- uniforms for our Catholic grade school. Really made getting up at 5am to catch the farmer's bus worthwhile.
Actually though I despised it back then we learned some valuable lessons about the value of a dollar and personal discipline.

 

[NFrameFred]

I was gonna vote in the poll but couldn't figure out what "disguisting" was . . . .

 

[belairdave]

I won't eat them untill I wash them off first but I can't think of anybody dying from eating raw greenbeans... Later, Dave

 

[jeepjeepwhat]

Ain't y'all discovered fire up 'ere in tha 'Mountains of Maryland'?
Wont us ta sen' ya sum matches?
Do y'all git mail?

Poke fun if you want, that goes for all of ya! But as of now more than 70% polled don't think eating raw green beans is disgusting!

 

[mkk41]

I won't eat them untill I wash them off first but I can't think of anybody dying from eating raw greenbeans... Later, Dave

Awww , but yer washing off all those tasty minerals , rabbit pee and bird poop!

 

[enfield]

I'd try them. I'd probably prefer them slow cooked for an afternoon with bacon and onion, but I'd try them.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I see by the poll that most people are so turned off by raw greenbeans that they didn't even open the thread!

 

[rimfired]

And fresh shucked peas.

 

[mkk41]

And fresh shucked peas.

Yuck! I have the same disdain for peas that others have noted for raw greenbeans!

 

[armenius]

I'd eat them out of a local garden,however in the last few years with the influx of laborers from third world countries we have seen a large increase of diseases from gastrointestinal bacteria and parasites.Think Egyptian beansprouts and E.coli deaths in Germany
and now one in US who recently visited Germany.