IT TASTES GREEN

             Years ago on an internet group we were having a discussion on gardening which led to a discussion about bean growing.  I wrote in that I didn't care for yellow wax beans because they didn't have that great green taste.  I was immediately inundated by questions about what green tastes like.  This was my reply:

                 Okay here is a lesson in green taste.  You know the

                 smell that you smell when you mow the lawn or and

                 alfalfa field is fresh cut.....That is not how it

                 tastes but it is close....You know how clover smells

                 so clean and soft.  It taste a little like that.

                 You see,  the smell of yellow is warm, like buttery

                 carrots or squash.  You could say they smelled clean

                 and fresh or corn on the cob yellow.  That is warm

                 and soft and when your lips touch those kernels you

                 start salivating before you even bite in.

                 Have a green bean just barely steamed no butter or

                 salt, just naked, put it in your mouth, you have to

                 chew it, when it touches the back of your tongue it

                 has a cool taste, you remember the fresh cut grass.

                 Now the green of asparagus, nope, that is an earthy

                 green. It is sort of like a green bean soaked in dirt. You

                 know army green, but it still has that  green taste.

                 Take white asparagus, you expect that it will taste

                 the same but someone took the green out, the same

                 goes for the wax beans, they are a green bean want to

                 be.

                 The Brassica family are green too but they have an

                 aged taste.  They didn't grow fast  enough to have

                 that cool green taste. Dark broccoli just tries to put

                 on a green show but he took so long to get

                 all that color that he just plain soured along the

                 way.

                There’s cauliflower, it is a want to be too, but it stays

                 out of the sun so it won't color up and what kind of

                taste is it left with, nada, no green

                 Now we come to Limes!! That is a green of another

                 color.  You can taste that cool but it is like green on

                 steroids.  The comparison goes further, you have yellow

                 lemons, they are a lime want to be. They think

                 their larger size will make up for the lack of green

                 taste.  They think if they hype the bite that they

                 will reign supreme.  No way jose'.  Lime green is a

                 special green.

                 Now you know how green tastes.

This is our growing season. If it will stop raining maybe I can plant some green beans.

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