Beans, Beans, Beans

My family has discovered that they love beans. We have a restaurant here, called "The Fruit Jar Cafe" and they have a bean bar. I was not familiar with a bean bar, so it was something new to me. It is basically the same as a salad bar, you purchase your dinner, and with it comes beans. They have bowls at the bar and you can have as many different kinds of beans as you can eat. We got up close and personal with butter beans. They are the same a large white lima's, but here in the south they are called butter beans. So yesterday I purchased a two pound bag and that is what I am making for dinner tonight. I also purchased what they call "fat back" and salt pork, to put in them. I opened it and smelled it, and decided to use salt pork instead. Fat back is just what it says, fat. Nothing else, no meat of any kind. I have to tell you, here in the south, people are heavy, and I think I know why!