When did French green beans become haricot vert?

[Duer 157099]

Seems that nowadays (on cooking shows at least) every time they use a long thin green bean, they must call it a haricot vert.

I frikken had to Google it before I discovered that it's just a regular old French green bean!

WTF? Snobbery in food to the max or what???

[Gormy Cuss]

1. They were always haricot vert.

It's just that we no longer have to call them Freedom green beans.:+



I never heard of French green beans. Frenched green beans, of course, but not French.

[Duer 157099]

2. French, Frenched, French cut, whatever

There's friggen green beans! Haricot vert my rear.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. I've never seen Frenched haricot vert.

There's a new product idea! :think:

[mopinko]

3. it's a particularly thin bean, sometimes one picked early.

but since haricot vert just means green beans, i think they have been called that for a few hundred years.
i remember when you only got them in fancy restaurants, back in the 80's.

[REP]

4. You do know that haricort vert is French for green bean, right?

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Anti-snobbery snobber much?

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According to Wikipedia, haricots verts are specifically, not just a string bean but, as
you said, a French string bean that is longer and thinner than what we are used to
calling a "string bean". They also say that string beans are bred for fleshiness, flavor,
and/or sweetness. Haricot verts (simply French for "green bean") are bred more for
flavor. By the way, what kind of, ahem... snobs also refer to green beans as "string
beans" or "snap beans"?
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I LIKE haricot verts. I like the more fragile "wisp" of bean.
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Not to mention Trader Joe's sells 18 oz (I think) packages of frozen haricots vert
dirt cheap.
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Now... if they can only get them to glow in the dark, they might be known as "rave beans".
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I'm sorry. That last point took me by surprise, too.
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Green beans, string beans, haricot verts, snap beans... they ALL end up looking EXACTLY the
same at one end of a baby's digestive system (systeme digestif):
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[SwampG8r]

7. its french for "that will be 25 dollars"

[riderinthestorm]

8. Even more basically, when did green beans become French? nt

[KamaAina]

9. Since they started playing zydeco music?

Seriesly! The much underappreciated African American-influenced style of Cajun music takes its name from a traditional tune titled "Les haricots sont pas sales" (the green beans are not salted); sung uptempo, "les haricots" became "zydeco"!

[MilesColtrane]

10. Haricot Vert?

Sounds like a European skateboarder.

[Callalily]

11. Peasants! When given the option

I ALWAYS order Haricot Vert! Ohhhhhh pleazzzzzzzzeeeeee, what else is there? :sarcasm:

[trackfan]

12. My only problem with them is that they're like $8.99/lb. compared to about 2 bucks for regular

green beans.

[femmocrat]

13. Oh, way before petit pois and pommes frites!

Haricots verts are old-school in comparison. :hi: