are garbanzo beans the same thing as chick peas?

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2 cool names for own bean/pea?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

yes

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

yes

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

i thought this was a thread i started high like 2 years ago until i clicked on it

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I just walked back into the office after making a batch of hummus!

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

which term is more PC?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

cece

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

eci bean, bengal gram, chana

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

The name "chickpea" derives eventually from the Latin name cicer through the French chiche. The name Cicero is derived from this plant. "Garbanzo" is from the Spanish language, an alteration (perhaps influenced by Old Spanish garroba or algarroba) of the Old Spanish arvanço, perhaps from Greek erebinthos.[1]

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

My dad always said 'garbanzo' when I was a kid, so that's what I used, but now I'm much more likely to say 'chickpea' b/c it seems more common.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

i use both interchangeably (prolly "chickpea" a little more).

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

wait what are those little tiny green pea-ish things? With a tiny white spot?

― andy --, Friday, 16 December 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Split peas? (I'm not recalling a white spot.)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

overheard embarrassing conversation on subway:

Cute girl: ... hummus

Nerd: ... gazpacho beans...

Cute girl: gazpacho beans?! what's that?

Nerd: hummus is made out of gazpacho beans, isn't it?

Cute girl: I never heard of no gazpacho bean. It's made with chick peas.

Nerd: quite embarrassed and flustered now starts describing the bean.

Cute girl: never heard of a gazpacho bean (making disapproving "what is wrong with you?" face)

ME: wanting to chime in but not wanting to admit I'm an eavesdropper

― Der, Friday, 16 December 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Interestingly the famed Roman orator Cicero was not named Cicero at birth, but acquired this as a universally-used nickname in later life. In Latin (apparently) a 'cicero' is a chickpea or garbanzo bean. Cicero's nickname was based on the shape of the tip of his nose, which was said to be both rounded and scored, as is a chickpea.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

IOW, Cicero resembled Karl Malden.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I've always liked that Max's Kansas City advertised "steak, lobster, chick peas" (based on the VU cover, anyway). I imagine the little garbanzos were pretty puffed up to be included with steak and lobster as a selling point.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

wait what are those little tiny green pea-ish things? With a tiny white spot?

Unshelled mung beans? Or mung dal when I buy 'em in an Indian-related context.

― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

I clicked on this thread to find out how the hell it had gotten to seventeen posts

eighteen now

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

My mom ate the chick peas at Max's Kansas City.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

THANKS!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

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