The Celebrated Jumping Beans of Chocowinity County

We tried growing beans with great success, including greasy cut shorts, which got the name because they look shiny as if they had been greased.   The regular beans are covered with a coarse fuzz which softens when they cook.

Greasies are legendary fare here in WNC, where they have a sort of sacred lineage, having originated here and having so pleased the palates of all Appalachian aborigines... and us Irish interlopers.

Of course, Packy had to have the beans cooked in a fistful of streaked meat, also known as salt pork.   And I answered our Jewish friend in Hendersonville that we would save her a nice two (or so) pounds of greasy beans for cooking in beef tallow or olive oil, her preference.   She (who considers pork nasty* although otherwise not a religious Jew) had been asking for a sample of my culinary delicacies and requested green beans and my famous cabbage and egg concoction oven-baked with Swiss cheese and secret spices in a 9 by 12, otherwise for such delicious "casseroles" as comforting baked spaghetti and comfortable banana pudding.

*She got very quiet during the debate when I informed her (having witnessed it as a farmboy) that as between pigs and chickens, pigs could not come close to the nastiness, filth, and omnivorous gluttony of chickens.  Chickens will eat anything that pigs will turn up their noses at, including turd chunks, rotting carrion, snakes, ticks, pissants, stink bugs, yellow jackets; maggots and fly, blue bottle fly, and botfly larvae.  Chickens also turn cannibal in a jiffy and eat their sisters' eggs.  Yet chicken is a staple in her diet and she believes chickens are born kosher, and immaculate...and pristine.