Lunched today alone at The Eatery, sitting in the back reading the NYTimes and enjoying a plate of Georgian chicken, roasted potatoes, and baby lima beans.
In the old days, limas were allowed to grow to maturity and lead full lives on the open range. A little-known PETA video reveals how it's done today, the ripping of baby limas from their mothers. I'd post the video here but its contents are too disturbing. Plus it doesn't exist.
The food industry is full of such horrors. Baby back ribs, for example. Don't even try to picture how they get these. Some companies are smart. Early peas they call them, a euphemism for peas stripped out of their pods at a tender young age and dropped into boiling water, then squeezed into an uncomfortable can until someone buys them at Kroger.
My baby limas, by the way, were excellent.
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