Quotes About Beans

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.

I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process, and hence, you have gas.

No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money!

One kilogramme of coffee produces about 10 litres of carbon dioxide in the roasting process.

Although it too was imported, coffee did not carry the same social or political stigma as tea. Americans started brewing beans instead of leaves during the Revolution and never looked back.

Lunch is the meal where you put carbs in, such as lentils and beans.

Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas!

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

I'm obsessed with coffee.

I love my coffee.

Don't buy preground coffee.

I don't drink coffee.

I'm a coffee lover.

I'm obsessed by coffee.

American bean cookery owes a lot to the Indians who, by the time the European colonists arrived, had been cooking and eating beans for at least 600 years.

Tepary beans, before the advent of the playing card and the poker chip, figured as counters in an ancient Indian gambling game.

Both Old and New World beans — and, to be fair, bran, onions, cucumbers, raisins, cauliflower, lettuce, coffee, and dark beer — have a reputation for eliciting a condition known delicately in the sixteenth century as "windinesse." Flatulence, for much of human history, has been a pressing social concern:

Not worth beans" has meant "utterly valueless" since the thirteenth century, which shows that, historically, we haven't had a clue as to the value of beans.

Eco argues that the upswing in population size, energy, intellect, and the economy all derived from a new crop. It was in the tenth century that Europeans began the widespread cultivation of beans.

As Simon went to see if Andrew was up, I wandered into the kitchen, where Derek was eyeing a rusty can of beans. That hungry? I said. I will be soon. He prowled the kitchen, flipping open cupboards. So you don't want me asking Andrew about that kid? I said. You trust him, though, right? Sure. He took down a box of crackers and turned it over, looking for a 'best before' date. *** Is he drinking the ketchup yet? Simon swung into the kitchen. Ten minutes, bro. Andrew's on his way—

I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.