Green Beans

I'm not fond of green beans. Had them when I was a kid. They served them in the school cafeteria, my mom served them from a can.

Then I grew up, and I stopped eating green beans. It's not so much that I avoided them, it's just that restaurants in California don't often serve them. Fine by me!

Recently, that seems to have changed. I've been served green beans with my meal at least three times in the past month or two. Times have changed, I thought to myself. When did it become haute cuisine to serve green beans again? Are all these restaurants reading the same serving suggestion magazines?

Then it occurred to me: maybe it's not the times, maybe it's the place. Maybe green beans are popular in Central Oregon, maybe they always have been. Funny how I assumed that things are the same here as they were in California. You'd think that the great Pepsi debacle would have thrust that home in my consciousness. Things are different here.

I still don't like green beans.


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