At the grain store, looking for Lima beans, I pointed to a bag that contained what looked like the beans and said
what is this then ?
Ava, said the young man, not a bean.
It looked close enough to the Lima so I bought a quarter of a pound and said to the young man
please write the name on the bag
and with a felt tip pen and in big letters he carefully wrote
H-A-B-A
Small wonder I have such trouble with the name of my street named after the late star, AVA Gardner, with their silent H and the labial B it can cause a lot of misunderstandings.
Oh, and according to my search on the internet, Haba is another name for Lima beans.
So there.
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I suppose you asked about frijoles, which here in spain are called "alubias" except for "habas", those dreaded lima beans (except here they do in fact in taste good, as opposed the lima-beans I remember as a kid in succotash which tasted like eating a crayon)
this all get better when one wants green-beans, or broad-beans = "judias" (little jewesses)...
as for the h/b "fun" I will never forget as we sat in the cliff restaurant drinking our margaritas on the rocks with Chuck, looking at the menu and pondering what "graby sauce" might be? until you pointed out they certainly ment "gravy"....
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