Contributor: Eric Suhem - - Sally looked at the pile of lima beans on her plate. “I don’t like this food, why do I have to eat it?” “Be quiet and eat your lima beans, or you’ll go to your room.” said her mother. At the bean conference in Lima, Ohio, on a small table, in the middle of the auditorium, under harsh white light, sat a single lima bean. “We all must eat the town bean,” was the general agreement voiced.  “But I don’t want to!” responded a small child’s voice, to which the instant response was to remove the youngster from the room. There was an argument in the auditorium about the origins of the lima bean. “The lima bean’s origins are in Lima, Peru,” correctly asserted a woman in a pea-green sundress, and there were roars of agreement throughout the auditorium. A man in a...

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Author: Eric Suhem