So a PR person called me from New York City today to inform me of the fact that beans are a vegetable, and to offer me some recipes for bean dishes. Seriously. A PR person, hired by a bean company, was trying to get the Tucson Weekly to write a story about how awesome beans are.
This is NOT something you’ll find in the newly online issue of the Tucson Weekly. However, you’ll find all sorts of fanastic stuff, not the least of which is all the info on Club Crawl™ you could possibly want.
Enjoy!
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2007.
Everyone knows beans are not a vegetable…they are a fruit…a musical fruit!
According to the botanical definitions of fruit and vegetable, if the organ is a vegetative part (root, stem or leaf), it is a vegetable. If it is derived from an ovary (female reproductive structure of the flower), then it is a fruit.
Beans are therefore clearly fruits by this definition, since they include the ovary wall. Peas are derived from the fruit and would be called seeds. Under this kind of categorization, nuts are fruits, and legumes need no special treatment.
Notice, color has nothing to do with the category, nor do any taste attributes, unlike the “grocery store definitions” of fruit and vegetable
Aren’t beans and peanuts relatives? What about Peanuts? What about the Linus bean?
Are coffee beans also a vegetable?
What about Ariel Sharon, is he a vegetable? Or a nut?
When will somebody invent caffeinated cabbage?
Hello, sir. I am from the Egg Yolk Council. I would like to offer you some excellent Egg Yolk Only dishes. Don’t listen to those SOB’s at the Egg White Council. They are liars. Lying Scum. You aren’t scum, right? You believe in truth, justice and the American way, right? Excellent. To make things easy for you, we have ALREADY WRITTEN many articles on the virtues of the WONDROUS EGG YOLK and the dangers of the TERRIFYING, evil, homosexual, and communist Egg White. You’re not an evil, homosexual communist are you? Then you will appreciate these excellent egg yolk articles. You will print them without question. These aren’t the droids you are looking for.
The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, but a bean.
Jimmy-I wanted to compliment you on your rememberance of Paul Edwards in the Skinny. Not a word about his passing in the lame dailies, even though his work is all over Pima County. I’ve known Paul for almost 20 years and he was a talented, soft spoken man with a delightfully wry sense of humor. His loss is the community’s loss.
Thanks, retrorv. It is indeed a sad loss. Margaret Regan contributed that item, and she deserves your compliments.
Whoa, way to change the subject!
Dammit! There goes the story I was about to pitch about beans.
With respect to Edwards, his creation got “interviewed” by the Weekly a few years ago — twice!: T Q & A with Splash redux
I gotta admit, I like it when the Weekly does off-the-wall stuff like that once in a while. It was the best thing since when “dat dem Nintzel” went rapstar fabulous one time with The Skinny a few years back. ‘Cause, you know, Mike Hein ain’t no foo’.