rswyan said, "This post of yours spawned a good bit of conversation here this morning ... as neither one of us had heard of those type of beans ... or at least heard them referred to by that name.
But looking them up it seems like I might have seen them before. Or I could be just confusing them with pintos, which look kind of similar.
At any rate, The Woman likes pintos and I do as well, so we'll keep an eye out for the Cranberry beans at the store and give them a try."
Shortly after I married my wife from West Virginia, about 56 years ago, she mentioned that she liked "October beans" better than pintos. Now I'd never heard of "October beans" and had no idea where to get such. Anyway, some years later I learned that was another name for "Cranberry beans" that I'd also never heard of. But in later years, I found that Kroger grocery stores stocked "Cranberry beans" so that's all we've bought for many years. And in more recent times, Walmart stores have also started stocking them. They cost just a little more than pinto beans, but are still quite cheap. How or why the "Cranberry" name, I'll never know; no relation to what we know as cranberries at all; just very slightly sweeter than pinto beans. I suspect that many people would never know the difference.
