The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsfrogmarch
(12,153 posts)the better you feel, so let's eat beans at every meal.
(It's comforting to know that pre-hi tech ditty from the 1950s is still around.)
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)I just remember from my step-dad saying it when we were kids. He is a child of the 50s.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)from one of my elementary school classmates.
IcyPeas
(21,884 posts)the more you eat 'em the more you fart.
My Mom used to say she punctured each bean with a needle before soaking them.
"It lets the gas escape." she said.
Mom's know everything.
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)were young children and the family had baked beans (they were from Boston environs) her mom would give each kid about 6 beans, and a toothpick. "Beans are hard to digest", she'd tell them, and they'd savor each molassesy bean.
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)The second marine he cooked the bean, parlez-vous
The third marine, he ate the bean and *make Bronx cheer sound here* all over the submarine,
Hinky, Dinky Par-lez-vous!
I taught this to my then 7-year-old nephew which he appreciated, but his parents and grandparents did not.
rudolph the red
(666 posts)beans somehow don't seem to have any effect.