Big and scary

[kz_blogorambling]

I've never seen fava beans in their pods before.

YIPES!

Comments

Stand back, I have to

[scout1222.livejournal.com]

I hope you'll be serving them with a nice chianti.

Re: Stand back, I have to

[adventurequeen.livejournal.com]

LOL...that's *exactly* what I was thinking! I just saw that movie the other night (for the 100th time).

[postmoderngirl.livejournal.com]

I read that as iPods and was really confused.

[karald.livejournal.com]

I read some article saying they're an immense pain in the ass to deal with but have never seen them unpeeled and in the pod. What do they look like?

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

They're just big--like as long as a normal string bean pod, but fat, as big around as a finger (or bigger) and bulging like a pea pod.

Big sizes are intriguing when you're talking about laundry detergent at CostCo or Sam's Club, but in other things like food they strike me as freakish.

[scout1222.livejournal.com]

http://www.humeseeds.com/bean_fva.jpg

They don't look all that different from edamame from this picture - are they really huge? I can't tell the dimension from this shot.