<p>Anything with lots of butter is tolerable.</p>
<p>Except lima beans.</p>
<p>I like lima beans. I also like saurkraut, onions, kidney beans, almost every vegetable. The only things I won’t eat are raw clams and hominy. I have never had rabbit and that is something I would like to try someday. My parents made sure we ate a little bit of everything when we were little. I have also eaten frog legs and cow’s tongue because my grandparents liked them.</p>
<p>I’m fine with lima beans but don’t generally prepare them myself (will eat them if they’re offered). </p>
<p>Not fond of raw oysters–still remember when I ate them in college at famous oyster bar & was VERY sick with food poisoning such that BF & I had to literally crawl to infirmary & crash there until we recovered. Now, decades later, still not interested in eating them.</p>
<p>HImom, I love fava beans, very similar to lima beans. The problem I have is not with eating them but with shelling them. There are a few things that I don’t eat raw anymore, sushi is one of them. I still like raw oysters but grilled/baked oysters are the best tasting.</p>
<p>My nephews (who were jaundiced as newborns) were told they are VERY allergic to fava beans. Not sure how to find out if they’re in foods but don’t think they’re used in many dishes locally. Since my kids aren’t allergic to them, have not done research on the matter.</p>
<p>Weird thing is my S is now allergic to green string beans, tho he can eat snow peas. We don’t know why, but they make him wheeze after just ONE bean! My SIL is now allergic to mint-flavored things (makes her wheeze) but loves the taste & can still eat small amounts of FRESH mint. My brother now gets violently ill from oregeno (& now dislikes italian food); didn’t happen when he was younger. I’m allergic to some shellfish & the sensitivity has gotten greater as I’ve gotten older (fortunately, mostly easy to avoid).</p>
<p>Lima beans, soup beans and liver. I swore once I left home at 18 I’d never eat them again, and I haven’t.</p>
<p>My hang-up I can’t get over, and actually it’s getting much worse, is people lie–continuously and continually. My word is my honor. If I tell someone I’m going to do something, I do it! If I tell them I’m going not to do something, I don’t do it. It seems like the rest of the world just says anything they think the other person might want to hear, they often (usually?) don’t mean what they say, and they couldn’t care less if they keep their word. It drives me insane. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s bothering them in the least.</p>
<p>I must admit I have a hard time comprehending anyone who says they never lie. Human social existence just doesn’t work that way; if you really never lie, either you’re a hermit, you’re extraordinarily lucky, or a lot of people are mad at you all the time. </p>
<p>I’ve always loved the scene in Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” where the heroine grandiloquently accuses the (anti)hero of compelling her to tell the only two lies she has ever told in her life, and he replies: “Dear young lady: isnt that rather a short allowance? I’m quite a straightforward man myself; but it wouldn’t last me a whole morning.”</p>
<p>Ewww. Lima beans!</p>
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<p>I’m not gonna argue with you. I work with a lot of women who never went beyond h.s. And in several cases (not all, but several) the maturity level froze at 7th grade. We’re talking cliquish-ness that would put a Mean Girl to shame. Telling a new employee on her FIRST day at work: “That’s so-and-so. We don’t talk to her. If you become friends with her, we won’t talk to you either.” I wish I was making this up…</p>
<p>I’ve also noticed that the most clicque-y teenage girls have moms who are exactly the same way. Apparently the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Discovered this when traveling with D’s dance studio. The nicest girls inevitably had the nicest parents, and the smile-at-your-face but “forget” to invite you to lunch when you’re standing 10 feet away girls - yup, their moms were just the same way. </p>
<p>My hang-up: fear of dogs. I thought I’d get over it when I grew up. It’s embarrassing to be in your 40’s, going for a walk in your neighborhood, and freezing when a dog on someone’s front porch starts barking at you.</p>
<p>Add me to the NO Lima beans club plus beets, saurkraut (?), olives, okra, relish, and cream soda</p>
<p>I haven’t been confronted by lima beans in years. I could eat them, but I doubt I would enjoy them. I thought I hated Brussels sprouts until I discovered that they don’t need to be cooked forever and smell dreadful. Properly stored and prepared, they are actually sweet.</p>
<p>I don’t get sauerkraut, olives or capers. I think they all have the brine thing in common plus another something I cannot name. And okra??? eeeew. Perhaps I haven’t had that prepared properly either. But it has always been a slimy mess.</p>
<p>It’s been so long since I’ve had a lima bean, I don’t really know if I still hate them. I learned to like brussel sprouts, even cooked badly. I still hate beets (except when cooked like potato chips or in borscht). I’m not a big fan of liver except when it’s diluted into pate - then it’s yummy! I once ordered kidneys by mistake in a fancy French restaurant. They were as good as kidneys could be, but they were still kidneys… I don’t eat okra straight by choice, but I don’t mind it in things like gumbo. I don’t like sauerkraut even after five years in Germany, but I can eat enough to be polite. </p>
<p>I think beets are really the only thing I refuse to eat - and large chunks of beef liver.</p>
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<p>Lafalum – Wow.</p>
<p>Lafalum, I agree with you about the mother/daughter thing. </p>
<p>“You learn what you live.” Kids see how their parents act and follow suit…even those kids who say “my parents are such jerks, blah blah” tend to eventually become much like their parents. </p>
<p>I see it in my own kids…the good and the bad.</p>
<p>elizabethh-
I hope that I am the exception. My parents were not nice people. They were spiteful and competitive. They were selfish parents. I have worked my entire adult life to be different. I do hope I have succeeded at least a little.</p>
<p>I love lima beans, but only when I make them. I use baking soda but you have to beware of the volcano eruption on the stove if the heat is too high 
can’t stand brussel sprouts or asparagus.
The smell of rice gags me so I can’t even begin to think about eating that along with tuna fish. BLEECH!!</p>
<p>Lima Bean Lover here – I always feel like the odd man out…</p>
<p>And on Hang-Ups – My Mom once told me you’ll always fell 18 until you look in the mirror. At 40 I find her words true – my logic & rationale haven’t changed much. To my teen’s chargrin neither has my taste in music.</p>
<p>mafool, there are always exceptions to every rule…and if you have worked that hard and feel that strongly about it, I’m sure you’re a much nicer and giving person than your parents were. Sometimes I generalize too much…</p>