On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:02:13 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
wrote:

I bow to your superior knowledge,
BUT in Wales runner beans are refered to as Kidney beans, and my
mother was Welsh so thats what I knew them as, but being brought up in
Sussex I also knew runner beans as stick beans, string beans and
runners

And Bob Flowerdew always calls them "running beans", which I have
never heard anywhere else. Is it a Norfolk speciality?

Pam in Bristol