NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Love them, hate them or indifferent to them, lima beans are big business in Delaware and somewhat of a “Small Wonder” of their own.

For starters, Delaware’s Secretary of Agriculture Ed Kee, who happens to love them, has known this for a long time. When it came time to write his master’s thesis in 1975 at the University of Delaware, it didn’t take long before he picked the little lima bean and it’s not hard to see why.