CUT-SHORT BEANS: Cut-short beans are heavily favored by people who want a bean that “sticks to your ribs.” Cut-short beans are noted for their tenderness and squared-off seeds that are sometimes completely square because of overcrowding within the hulls. They are a very old type of bean which most people, except for traditional gardeners who have saved their own seeds, have never heard of nor seen, not to mention grown. (See also greasy cut-shorts.)