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> > Can you translate "edamame" into some dialect that I can understand? "Southern" is good, or maybe "Redneck." I'll bet it turns out to be grits.
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> Oh, Howard, you make me laugh so much. :-)
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> Here you go, everything you ever wanted to know about a little bean called Soy.

Ah-ha! I knew it would be something familiar. I grew up with the soy ean, but never heard them called that. Around here we cut and bale the whole plant for hay. Or we use it to add protien to food such as meatless hamburgers. I like the beans roasted like goobers. You can buy a bag of them in the supermarket under the name of "soy nuts." They are also made into soysauce used to give rice and related foods a exotic flavor.

Americans didn't eat much soy before WWII. It was probably because they felt like a bean should be eaten as a bean instead of an ingredient. If you cook soy beans like we do other beans the taste is. . . well, kind of uninteresting. I have not learned to eat tofu by itself, but it shows up in soup and other dishes and I like it that way.

I've tried poi and it's hard to believe it doesn't come from soy beans.
Howard