Today is NATIONAL BEAN DAY but nobody seems to know why or who started it.  In my research, I did find out that beans are NOT a vegetable.  Beans are a FRUIT!

I also found out that beans have been cultivated longer than, almost, any other plant.  They've been growing them in Thailand since the early seventh millennium BCE and the oldest domesticated beans in the Americas were found in Peru.

I could really go for a big bowl of bean soup but, unfortunately, beans are on the "DO NOT EAT" list for kidney patients.

And, then, there's the "bean humor".

"There was a young man called art,
who thought he'd be terribly smart,
He ate ten cans of beans,
and busted his jeans,
with a loud and earth shattering....." well, you know where this is going.