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[MaryAnn]

Lima beans YUCK. As a kid I was forced to eat canned limas (ok maybe they were frozen but...) and the only way I could get them down was to coat them with ketchup and swallow them like pills, unchewed. Now I like favas just fine; they make great felafel.

[Dan Schultz]

I like lima beans. But... the dumbest looking mascot I've ever seen was someone dressed up as lima bean costume at a function in Lima, Ohio some years ago.

[Donn]

As a kid I was forced to eat

I think there's a lot of things that kids kind of naturally dislike, that they'd enjoy as adults if their childhood experience hadn't soured them for good. I'd be surprised if many kids would like fava beans, especially if prepared in the rather casual way we used to experience lima beans, but they're a pricey gourmet item since we encountered them later, while the lima beans we grew up with are objects of fear and loathing. The Taiwanese are fond of their bitter melon, a sort of dangerous looking vegetable with an extremely harsh, bitter flavor - I don't know if anyone eats them straight, but they love to mix them into scrambled eggs for example. So they just officially recognize that they aren't for kids, which I imagine makes the kids more eager to like them. (Which is a good thing, since they're apparently real good for you.)

Since it really isn't such an agricultural region right around here, any more, we don't have vegetable mascots that I know of, but I know a tuba player who's worn the clam mascot costume.

[windshieldbug]

Then there's the bitter melon mascot:

[FarahShazam]

Found cheap-@$$ ham. $0.80/per lb. "Fully cooked" water added. It's at 225 now. Put it in the oven at 0930. Have the timer set for 5 hours and will readjust as needed.

It was the biggest ham I could find. Hope this works (no seasoning or prep was needed).

I think the thing is 10lbs. Directions said 275 for 3-4 hours so I turned down the heat after 60 minutes. Will report back later.