Thursday, June 19, 2014

Beans

Art highlights (and a couple of recipes) from this super fun, 38 page BEANS booklet published by the Michigan Bean Shippers Association of Saginaw, Michigan (date and artist unknown.) Also includes interesting facts and a little bit of history about beans, --and oh man, don't miss the scoop on the Bean Queens at the very end of the post!











9 comments:

Craftypants Carol said...

wow. i absolutely love the art in this!

the dancing people from around the world are seriously fab! and the cans! man!

and i am equally fascinated and perplexed by the beans and meatballs recipe - mostly because of all the uncooked and undrained fatty meat. i am seriously going to have to try that.

oh and yes, the bean queens are really great. too bad they dont have a bean tiara or bikini though.

Mr. Karswell said...

A beankini perhaps?

Craftypants Carol said...

yes

or a beans and weeniekini for the bean kings :)

Mr. Karswell said...

Is a weenkini made of wieners? May as well just go nude!

Craftypants Carol said...

sounds good to me!

Mr. Cavin said...

I like the dancing cans a lot too. But I do feel it's worth pointing out that, when your character is basically just a big head with arms and legs coming out of the corners, this style of drawing a cleft chin looks even more scrotumlike than it usually does.

I think they should all have their tongues wagging out.

Craftypants Carol said...

i was gonna mention the ballsack chins but i figured it was best left to a dude to point that out.

Mr. Karswell said...

Wait, those are chins and NOT scrotums??!!! WAHHH!!

JMR777 said...

Was the bean man with the top hat an ancestor of Mr. Bean?