Will you help with this? It's a quick survey. Which term do you use: garbanzo bean or chickpea? The survey is here.
PS: This is a follow-up to a call we'll be airing on the program, discussed by the listener here.
Grant,
I can now call them both. But, I did not know garbanzo beans until I left home at 18. At home, chickpeas fed my father's family one winter during the Depression when it was the only crop which produced that dry summer in southwest Missouri.
I suppose for purposes of your survey that I should probably answer chickpeas.
Emmett
In the East we called them chickpeas; in the West, especially the Hispanic southwest, we call them garbanzos.
Felipe Ortego
The survey asks for (presumably) what I call them currently, and my current location. I grew up in New York, and always heard them referred to as "chick-peas" until I started going outside the NYC area. Then I started hearing "garbonzos." Now that I'm in Texas, I only hear them called "garbonzos."
They're garbanzo beans to me because that's what it says on the can (with "ceci beans" beneath it in smaller letters). I think you're going to find that the people who call them chickpeas are the ones who cook them from fresh.
(I wonder if peachicks eat chickpeas.)