Know Your Greens!

[Morning Glory]

A bit of research suggests that runner beans are grown as a vegetable in America and indeed, the plant originated in America and was originally introduced to the UK as an ornamental flower. In America, I think, it has more popularity as an ornamental flower than here, but the beans are eaten too. In some areas of America the climate is too hot and dry for it to grow. In America its known as the Scarlet Runner Bean. See here:
https://www.southernexposure.com/sc...g-p-759.html?zenid=bmbfcmfnr7e02bc1fl69pv5016

 

[classic33]

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Judge's decision.
@classic33 The pictures that states those beans are green beans is wrong. They are not. They are runner beans....






Now can I go and eat my runner beans please?

 

[classic33]

Judge's decision.
@classic33 The pictures that states those beans are green beans is wrong. They are not. They are runner beans....

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Now can I go and eat my runner beans please?

No!

 

[classic33]

Anybody feel like quoting the post in which the answers were given?

 

[Morning Glory]

Anybody feel like quoting the post in which the answers were given?

Which post would that be? @SatNavSaysStraightOn and I have proved beyond reasonable doubt that the photograph in your original quiz is of runner beans (or scarlet runner beans in U.S.). Surely, @classic33, you have eaten runner beans here in the U.K. and can recognise the difference? I think you have to admit that this is an American quiz and that because they don't have any runner beans, they have identified these as green beans. Yawn...

 

[classic33]

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http://www.cooksinfo.com/runner-beans
About Runner Beans look like somewhat larger versions of what North Americans know as Green Beans or String Beans. There are a few differences, other than just size. Runner Beans are a perennial plant, whereas Green Beans are annuals. When the Runner Bean seed first starts to grow, the stem and the first set of leaves are the first thing to emerge from the ground. When a Green Bean seed starts to grow, the first thing to emerge from the ground is the two halves of the seed. Runner Bean vines twist clockwise, Green Bean vines twist counterclockwise.​

Search on the picture you gave, got this...

And the site it came from https://www.organicnutrition.co.uk/blog/1076-green-smoothies-absorb-nutrients.html

 

[Morning Glory]

Search on the picture you gave, got this...
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And the site it came from https://www.organicnutrition.co.uk/blog/1076-green-smoothies-absorb-nutrients.html

This is an American company with offices in the UK. Hence the American terms for the veg.

 

[classic33]

The one I thought might cause problems has even rated a mention. Other than being given as an answer.

 

[Morning Glory]

The one I thought might cause problems has even rated a mention. Other than being given as an answer.

There were two which I thought a problem: Napa cabbage and Broccoli Rabe (American terms). Was it either of those?

 

[classic33]

There were two which I thought a problem: Napa cabbage and Broccoli Rabe (American terms). Was it either of those?

Neither of them.

 

[Morning Glory]

Arugula?

 

[classic33]

Arugula?

No. Now you're just guessing

 

[Morning Glory]

True. But all the other ones are pretty obvious. Perhaps you've led a sheltered life when it comes to green vegetables?

 

[classic33]

True. But all the other ones are pretty obvious. Perhaps you've led a sheltered life when it comes to green vegetables?

On a farm?