A question for other Welsh mumsnetters, but all opinions welcome!

[Breenerry]

When I was growing up in a small Welsh town (a long time ago now!) we sometimes had a bowl of sliced green beans for supper or lunch. Just beans. And we called them kidney beans.

When I left home, I soon discovered that what we called kidney beans were, in fact, green beans. People keep telling me that I must be misremembering but I'm definitely not! This wasn't a one off - kidney beans is what we called green beans!

Did anyone else's family do this?

Do you mean runner beans? This was a meal in itself as you’ve described (I’m from Pembrokeshire) but we didn’t call them kidney beans!

No I was never served either a bowl of kidney beans or a bowl of green beans for dinner. We had proper food and we are welsh.

So your family confused kidney with green?

I grew up between the Swansea and Dulais valleys and my parents would have a bowl of kidney beans, I hated them.The beans not my parents!

We called them kidney beans in Mid-Glamorgan

No but one side of my family always refers to spring onions as shallots. I put it down to Welsh being their first language rather than English

Runner beans and they were delicious with a kidney bean in the middle . We used to have them with new potatoes, bacon and mint sauce 😋

Yes I'm talking about what I now know as green beans - that's what we called kidney beans. Maybe it's not a Welsh thing but a Swansea and Swansea valley thing then?

I used to love a bowl of them with lots of butter and bread!

Hmm, I think my grandma might have done this too - vague memories are stirring!

Green beans were called kidney beans here too ( wrongly I now know )
Kidney beans , boiled then cut with scissors , served with grilled bacon on top and lots of black pepper and butter . Yum

Kidney beans here in the valleys.

I'm pleased to see that others called them kidney beans too!

I can't remember what we called actual kidney beans, but probably they weren't something my grandma used often, if at all.

My Welsh gran always called green beans runner beans.

We always called broad beans, ffa. Which is Welsh for beans.
Moving to England when I was 7 I remember the dinner ladies at school really mocking me for this.

@Moonflower12
we called broad beans Ffa too.

North west Wales and we call runner beans cidnabês in Welsh- I think that would come from a bastardisation of the English "kidney beans". The dictionary shows "ffa ddringo" which translates at climbing beans, but I have heard cidnabês on Welsh TV and radio and it's what every Welsh speaker I know would call them. We'd call the small maroon beans "ffa coch" which means red beans.

I think kidney beans would have been broad beans.
We would have either those or runner beans just with butter and salt, or sometimes with bacon and or scrambled egg. (Neath).

Yes we called them.kidney beans too.... Cardiff/Caerphilly area ....they had a purplish bean inside the green bit. Also called string beans or runner beans. picked fresh from the garden, and cooked with butter on.

We called them string beans, and spring onions were jibbons.