All you can find here are the baby lima beans! It's freakin' weird!

Now showing at your local cinema.

My succotash is sufferin'!

They came from Lima, Peru. Perhaps this explains the disappearance of the big lima beans. There are UFO landing pads in Peru. The lima beans are actually aliens, and they are pissed because we've been eating them. So they travelled back to planet lima to get their big brothers, and left their babies behindd. I mean, they're green and weird looking! They will return with radioactively treated 20 foot lima beans to conquer us. I mean, the little bastards are even shaped like UFOs!!!

Of course, I was the one plotting to fry up the Dark Lord Cthulu like a giant calamari, so I guess I can handle a few giant lima beans.

Succotash and lots of it.

Don't you remember going back and visiting a grade school teacher when you were in high school and the desks looked so tiny?

Same thing.

I can only find them in succotash now.

My mom used to make great lima beans with a little vinegar and onions. Yummmm!

Canned. Frozen or otherwise, no big limas! I wonder if there is some explanation.

They go great in vegetable soup.

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Three local groceriy stores - only one has the Fordhooks.
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Just beware that if you put any "alternative" beans in your chili, the wingnuts who haunt DU will wail like banshees. Sour nannies!

wingnut sour nannies...

Chili without dark red kidney beans is garbage.

I spose they are healthier than chick peas.

where George Carlin sent his liver...

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from the early days...a pseudo Country Western song...

"I sent my sinuses to Arizona,
I sent my liver to Peru,
I sent my lungs and my kidneys
in the summer to Sydney,
But I'm sending my heart to youuuuuu"



I've been looking for a video of him singing it, but no luck yet...

An acreage shortage. Most lima beans are grown in Washington, and it takes a lot of acreage to grow them. The land used to grow the beans is also used for growing grains, which have doubled and triipled in price. Apparently the baby limas must have a higher yield per acre, making it more economically feasable to grow them.

Ode to the Lima Bean
by the Flying Fish Sailors
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,7706823-22134045,00.html

In the Garden of Eden, long ago
When Eve she tempted Adam so
There wasn't an apple to be seen
She tempted him with a lima bean
All mankind's sins trace to the root
Not of some forbidden fruit
But to that vegetable small and green
The hideous loathsome lima bean

The extinction of the dinosaur
Is not a mystery anymore
No giant comet hit the land
To raise a cloud of dust and sand
And hide the light of the sun from sight
And turn the day into the night
Oh, no, they perished when they ate
The deadly lima bean of fate

Bubonic plague killed one in three
In the sixteenth century
Black death brought Europe to its knees
And was attributed to fleas
But now respected scientists
Say fleas were not the cause of this
'Twas eating lima beans that led
To the number of medieval dead

Throughout history we have seen
The influence of this lowly bean
Is it from Satan or sent by God
This powerful humbling deadly pod?
It's not for human hearts to know
Why Satan or God has cursed us so
With that vegetable small and green
The hideous loathsome lima bean


(By the way, I love lima beans, but Greg Hinkle's song is hilarious! )

I'm doing more research....