Just a Fancy Way to Say "Soybean"*

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I am really, really excited about eating some edamame from the garden. Shannon says they may be ready to eat this week!

Edamame is totally the kind of food I would have sneered at had mom tried to feed it to me as a child. Like avocados. So did I have bad taste as a child or have my taste buds died off as I've gotten old, allowing me to be a more adventurous eater?

*This is exactly what dad said when I told him we had about 10 feet of edamame plants growing.