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When preparing green beans for cooking
many people chop off both ends. Every
once in a while you come across a green
bean that is horseshoe shaped. Well that
is good luck because it makes it easier to
chop both ends off in one cut.
It wouldn't be genetic engineering but just
selective
breeding that could eventually
make all of the green beans be shaped like
that since it happens to occur naturally.
Shorter beans stack inside longer beans
and thus your preparation time would be
dramatically reduced.
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[sartep] switch to snake beans - much healthier and you can bend them round to allow one-slice top and tailing! |
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Sorry, but I eat the "tails". |
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Yeah, I only snap off one end. |
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Why stop with horseshoes? Why not full circle (Cheerio) beans that have no ends at all? |
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I just ate some fiddlehead ferns just last
night. Mmm good. |
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[later edit] <writes in notebook> aliens eat fiddle ferns... </win> |
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I had green beans last night, trimmed only one end, two or three at a time. |
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I 'spose your next question is 'why'? |
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Cold, pickled, three (or four) horseshoe bean salad. Mmm. |
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Easier way to do it than selective breeding. |
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Put the forming beans in little horseshoe molds. |
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//I just realized the image I posted,
looks like some sort of alien coupling.// |
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Doesn't look like anyone I know. |
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Why not genetically modify it? There is no difference in result. Also molds might or might not work, depending on the way beans grow. Even if it does work think of the millions of beans to be individually molded! No, genetic modification is the most practical option. |
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