Healthy or not, he didn't pray for beans.

What's your first thought if you hear "rice and beans"?

Mine is "food for the poor".
I think of the simple, cheap, what we call "brown beans". Beans not many eat these days but we love them. They are cheap and good food.

How come Dutch people stopped eating them?
It's not because of the bad "name" they have (food for the poor) but the fact your intestines like them less, farting for hours is not comfortable.

Bartje Bartels a Dutch boy/character in the children's books written by the teacher Anne de Vries (1904-1964) - with a t.v. series in 1972 - became famous with his refusal to pray for brown beans!
Did Bartje started an anti-campaign against beans?
The tv series were very popular in the 70s and tells about the struggle of a very poor family during 1935, where one of the children, Bart, refuses to say his prayer before a dinner of brown beans.
We have way more food and fast food these days and... we no longer know how to prepare them. This all together means there's no longer a need for beans.

Rice...rice is food for the poor too they say.
I do not care, I am poor and by now rics an extra for us unless we only eat rice.

It is easier for me to open a pot with brown beans as boiling rice.
Rice takes more gas and time. The beans are fixed, taste soft, not as hard as kidney beans, and I only need to heat them up which can be done on the woodstove too or in 5 minutes.

Before Autumn I buy glasses or cans with brown beans, white beans in tomato sauce and green beans.
I save for the whole year. It is food for the winter, those days I cannot leave here, am out of money or am sick. It's cheap and easy to prepare which is important to me. My children can do it.
If we make Chili con care (or just Chili which means no meat) we use the brown beans. They only cost half the price of kidney beans.

If beans taste depends on how you prepare them.

It's the cook who makes or... spoil the taste for food and that is what happened with the boy Bart. It is difficult to make a great dish out of beans only if there's nothing to add to it. Not even species to stop the farting.

Beans are healthy.
They contain carbohydrates and are a substitute for meat although you need to eat a high amount of beans to get what you need. They say brown beans help prevent cancer. How they can tell I don't know but it is worth eating and for sure it contains not as many chemicals as most (fast) food we buy these days.

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