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3 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I would just like to point out that some of us here on Twitter.com love beans for good and wholesome reasons that do not involve making small children miserable.
Embrace the wonders of the heirloom bean! It is a good and noble plant and while it does come in its own little packaging, you will not require a can opener!
They have history! Lineage! Occasionally even sagas!
Even out and out urban legends! (Rural legends?) People have been claiming beans like this were found in a cave and were thousands of years old since at least the 1800s. They just update the setting.
There are tales of bean varieties dragged back from the brink of extinction! The “Noble” bean was down to one wet bag of seeds, only three plants sprouted, and then pests ate one! And yet it LIVES!
Anyway. Beans! We’re not all like That Guy.

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