In THE BATTLE OF THE SALADS, Caesar salad won, with 'other' coming next in the poll. The Caesar salad isn't named after the Roman emperor; instead it was named after Caesar Cardini, the late Italian chef who created the salad in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico.
It's now the turn of the beans to do battle! Beans are legumes. For the purposes of this poll, chickpeas, lentils and peas are included as beans because they're all part of the same leguminous family. However, butterfly peas (from the clitoria plant), carob beans, cocoa beans, coffee beans, Mexican jumping beans, peanuts, vanilla beans and, obviously, jelly beans are excluded from the poll.
My favourite beans are canellini beans, chickpeas (especially as a hummus dip or in a hot Indian curry), fava beans (I call them broad beans and they're best served in a parsley sauce), green beans (especially runner beans), green peas (particularly if mushy served in a lemon and mint viniagrette), lentils (a lentil-based tarka dahl is an essential side dish for any Indian curry), Lima beans (called butter beans here), mangetout, pinto beans (refried beans are scrummy), red kidney beans (a must in any self-respecting chilli con carne) and soybeans.
But navy beans (aka haricot beans) get my vote because they are the beans used in the classic British dish, beans on toast - see photo below. The rest of the world just doesn't know what it's missing by not embracing this dish!
Though I haven't tried some beans, there isn't a bean I've eaten that I don't like. All beans seem good! But fermented beans, such as the traditional Japanese dish of nattō consisting of fermented soybeans, don't sound too appetising but I would give it a try in my constant search for a bad bean!
What are your most and least favourite beans?
Generally, how do you eat your beans?
Does eating beans make you fart more?
Below is a poll where you can anonymously select your most favourite bean. Unfortunately only one pick is allowed in the poll.
A poll on this site can only have 20 answer options. There was no room for black turtle beans, bolita beans, calypso beans, cattle beans, fayot or flageolet beans, field peas, gigante beans, grass peas, guar beans, hyacinth beans, jack beans, lingot beans, locust beans, lupini beans, mojette beans, moth beans, olotu beans, oloyin beans, Peruvian beans, pigeon or gungo peas, pink beans, rattlesnake beans, sulphur beans, sword beans, tepary beans, urad beans, winged beans, yardlong beans, yellow beans and yellow eye beans. But there is always the 'other' option for those beans not listed. Hopefully I've covered all the popular beans as poll options.
I tend to buy my beans canned or frozen, rarely dried or fresh. I always eat my beans with a fork! Normally I have beans with a roast dinner or sometimes as a side dish with a steak. The beans are usually boiled but I like beans fried or baked. But, as I've already said, baked beans on toast is the best. Beanz Meanz Heinz!
As I never fart, eating beans makes me fart no more or no less!
I think green beans or green peas will win the poll, though chickpeas, lentils and soybeans may surprise me. May the best bean win!
I want to thank @hippiechick1967 for her advice in compiling this poll. Any mistakes in the poll are of course her mistakes!
Please see the first comment below to see what has won each battle so far.
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Beans are amongst my least favourite vegetable.
When my Mother made chilli, I wouldn’t eat it because she put red kidney beans in it. I thought it was gross when my Father ate pork & beans on toast or overloaded his French pea soup with soda crackers. I practically gagged on green peas and tried every way to hide them including giving them to our dog.
However, as an adult, I rediscovered the great taste of fresh green beans when they are not overcooked.
And as my Grandmother used to say, “It is better to burp/fart and bear the shame, than not to burp/fart and bear the pain.”
Fresh green beans never even make it to the stove here... as fast as I can snap them, they get eaten raw! So yummy! I never really cared for chickpeas (except as hummus but that's a dip, not a bean) until I had them baked and now I love those crunchy little snacks!
@spunkycumfun you're missing out! I had my first homegrown bean (I planted yellow ones instead of green ones) tonight! So good and crunchy!
@hippiechick1967 Yes please!!!
@spunkycumfun yes, we have two kinds of green beans here, runners and bush (snicker) and the runners are indeed stringy! Bush beans tho, are stringless and the individual beans inside are very tender, even if they're large.
@hippiechick1967 it came through just fine, I copypasted it and now I'll give it a try. Thanks!!
Leguminous and scrummy? We're back in the swinger's club again, aren't we?
What are your most and least favourite beans
It's too hard to choose. I'm not sure I ever met a bean I did't like.
Generally, how do you eat your beans?
I use a fork.
Does eating beans make you fart more?
Of course! Especially when they're in chili. I'm farting right now. They're frijole farts.
@spunkycumfun Up to now I've been pointing the finger at Nova Scotia.
Voted again, greenbeans
I love my haricot vert. Fresh green beans are amazing.
Voted again as requested. (Green beans)
What a great battle here, who would of thought the
battle of the beans. But there are so many great
choice from your list here.
What are your most and least favourite beans? I did
choose Great Northern's but I love some fresh
green beans as well.
My least favorite I would have to choose lentils.
Generally, how do you eat your beans? Well when
I make pinto beans, or great northern's I add a
ham hock or sometimes bacon or ham to them
while they are cooking.
Does eating beans make you fart more? Yes but the
best way to get rid of that for the most part is to
boil the beans for thirty minutes before cooking them
with what ever it is you like to add to them. This really
does help.
Great read today my friend, I hope your Monday is
a great start to your week..
I love black beans on my burrito at Chipotle. Yummmmmm!!
I have black beans with enchiladas.
I like green beans, as long as they're not the mushy canned ones. I prefer fresh or frozen.
I'm not a huge fan of res kidney beans, so I like to use green beans instead in my chilli. Edamame is great in salads 😁
I like most beans.....lentils for sure. Black eyes...baked beans..., green peas red n white kidneys etc. There are others that im not familiar with . Im not too keen on limas tho. Not a fan !~
Most - Lima, but I say that just because having them with a meal is a point of contention around here. Least - hard to say, a few of these I've never even heard of!
Generally, how do you eat your beans? I eat limas in salt and butter
Does eating beans make you fart more? As we used to say as kids:
Beans, beans, food for your heart
The more you eat, the more you fart
The more you fart, the better you feel
So eat your beans at every meal.