A poll regarding a particular sort of food

[damont]

Something that occurred weekend before last has prompted me to ask this of the folks who read this post.

Where I grew up, it's reasonably common for green beans -- either snap beans or "Italian" flat beans -- to be served with tomato sauce. I'm wondering what others think of this dish. I may discuss the poll results later in a comment.

[Poll #1460626]

Comments

[montuos]

The concept of green beans in tomato sauce pegs my WTF-o-Meter despite being not completely unwilling to consume either green beans or tomato sauce (separately!).

[principia.livejournal.com]

If you want a delicious variant to said dish, you need to try the lubieh bel zeit at Lebanese Taverna. Ambrosial.

[kellan_the_tabby]

I've heard of it before, for certain, though I didn't grow up eating it. I'd probably like it if it weren' for the fact that green beans are blech in my book.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Which is why I had the separate boxes for those who don't much care for each main ingredient.

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

Your lack of a box for "I've never had green beans marinara, but I think I'd like them if tomato sauce were not a tasty but poisonous substance" vexes me.

[ulfrslady.livejournal.com]

I'll eat them separately but not together. I've tried them a couple of times and I just can't get used to the taste.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry dear. I'm a little vexed too, that I didn't think about that, given how many of my friends have food allergies or other severe dietary restrictions.

*hugs*

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

{hugs}

Mine's merely a sensitivity, but it's a sensitivity that is rather unpleasant to deal with. Years of trial and error have delineated the very narrow range of tomato-consumption possibilities.

I could eat it if a liberal pat of butter were mixed into a single portion. :)

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Clarification: I don't mind eating green beans with tomato sauce, but it's not something I do often, and not something I did much of as a child.

[psalite.livejournal.com]

You could also add
I don't care much for green beans but with marinara sauce they might be much more edible :)
Which is really my take

[morgynleri]

I'd love to be able to try them, despite not being particularly fond of green beans cooked... if, of course, my joints wouldn't be much happier if I didn't try them like that.

[nostasia.livejournal.com]

I've never actually had green beans in tomato sauce. I presume it's a regional (or ethnic) variant? What I'm used to is green beans in cream of mushroom with fried onions on top.

[sigkit.livejournal.com]

I choose "I've never had green beans marinara but I think I'd like them." But now that I think about it I have thrown Green beans into spaghetti sauce so perhaps I have.

[math5.livejournal.com]

I've had it: no WTF but not crazy about it.

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

It really has to be Italian style sauce with a fine dice of tomatoes thrown in at the end so they aren't all mushy and vanish into the sauce. Green beans are great with this- so is zuccinni- the green variety, not the yellow.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

My thoughts were similar.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

One of the dishes I regularly get at local Greek food festivals is Green beans and Zucchini Yiahni which is green beans and zucchini simmered in tomato sauce. And I'll buy the frozen Italian vegetable mix and then cook the mix in spaghetti sauce.

[devreux.livejournal.com]

While my mother never served them together specifically, green beans were a common accompaniment to spaghetti-and-meatballs-and-marinara-sauce, which by default means you get green beans with marinara sauce, too, and they're fine/tasty that way.

[h3salthea.livejournal.com]

...Ditto...

Gosh, every Thanksgiving at my Aunts, in fact!

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

It doesn't actually peg my WTF-o-Meter, because my dad likes to put ketchup on his... I just think it's gross =)

[cellio]

I never had this growing up; I encountered loubee bzeit as an adult.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Green bean casserole is common in my family too -- that's the Northern European side coming out.

Green beans with tomato sauce, in its various guises, seems to be a Mediterranean-American idea. But I don't believe one finds it much in the Midwest -- not even in Chicago or Cincinnati which have heavy Italian and Greek populations respectively.

[1-big-grizz.livejournal.com]

As a New Englander, I must say that this entire poll is an affront to all that is good and holy. Greens beans are nothing more than a portal to the Dark Side.

[jacylrin.livejournal.com]

And the fact that so far Ticky Box! has the most votes? Soooooo unsurprising...

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Thanks, in part, to the three people (so far) who clicked "Ticky box!" and *nothing* else...

[pedropadrao.livejournal.com]

I've had it at Lebanese places & Greek places. Never seen it at Italian places, but I like it, as does Devora.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

I love green beans. I hate, *hate*, HATE tomatoes in any form above all other foods.

I've only encountered the combo in diners that serve the traditional diner menu but are run by Greeks. (Which is a surprising percentage of them.) When I asked why the combination, I was told it was the traditional Greek way of serving green beans. And they never mention the tomatoes on the menu; I've learned to always ask.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Oy. At least the diners in NJ *say* it's green beans marinara.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Not the ones I've run into. They just list green beans as a side veggie, & when they arrive, they're covered in tomato sauce. Like I said, I always ask now.

Edited for brain fart -- must be the tomatoes.