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.

 

[Rule3]

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

Probably most people hate peas because they were served disgusting canned peas or school peas which were canned and then cook for 24 hours.

The taste of fresh baby peas right out of the garden are like candy.

 

[captorquewrench]

The taste of fresh baby peas right out of the garden are like candy.

Oh yes they are! So is fresh picked corn.

At the farmers market today I snitched a green bean out of the bin and ate it. It was bliss.

I was there for purple hull peas. The only ones they had, while fresh, had already been hulled. I wanted to sit on the patio shelling peas tomorrow with the kids.

It's just as well. I'm putting the peas in the crock pot in the morning and making peach and strawberry jam and canning pickles all day...that stuff and yard eggs was what got me out to farmers market.

Yard eggs...mmm...the BEST yolks.

 

[dg101win]

Raw is the Only Way

Raw is the only way I will eat green beans. I wash them off then throw into the frig to chill. My current wife got me away from canned peas now it is only frozen or fresh ones. Corn is either on the cob or frozen. There are not many vegetables that I will eat.

 

[Class III]

MMMMM!!! Purple Hulls slow cooked with a salt pork. Now that's good eatin.

As nobody has mentioned them: Raw soybeans. I was sitting in the deer stand a few years ago and had two "New" deer and their mama eating what was left of the soybeans after harvesting. When they left the field I climbed out of the stand and grabbed a few pods of soybeans. They taste just like raw peanuts, and I love raw peanuts.

As for raw green beans, never tried them. I'm going to the farmers market this weekend so I guess I'll try a few raw as I was planning on buying some anyway.

Class III

 

[JcMack]

My little dogs like frozen green beans. Me I can take em or leave em. I like Broccoli nuked a couple minutes. Just about every supermarket has the name "Fresh something" around here. Produce of all kinds has become a big deal like never before. As mentioned, you don't know where the stuff comes from though. I gotta hit some farmers markets south of here next week.

 

[ohiobuckeye]

Growing up dirt poor, we always had a big garden and at the right time of year, it was a good place for daytime snack. Tried the green beans...not that great...and yes, raw sweet corn is fairly tasty...cucumbers OK...My favorite was to sneak out with a salt shaker and chow down in the middle of the tomato patch...

 

[Strato]

When it comes to most veggies, raw is the only way I can tolerate them. Besides when you cook em you lose a lot of the nutrients. Green beans and asparagus are especially good raw, seasoned to taste.

 

[alabamabarry]

try raw peas

 

[nawilson]

I only like green beans cooked until they are soft... but carrots I will only eat raw. Weird, I know... Broccoli goes either way. Corn on the cob and boiled then covered in butter and salt and pepper.

 

[blujax01]

I wonder how it came to be that we think some vegetables are acceptable raw and some must be cooked? Whereas some are acceptable either way.

It's kind of like meat. American carnivores eat cow but Indian Hindu do not. Americans don't generally eat dog but in Asia it's common. Rabbits can go either way.

I think it'd be tough being a rabbit. You never know where you stand ...