the.com/navy bean
The tiny white bean that fed an empire's sailors and named itself after the fleet.
means A small, mild white bean, oval and dense, commonly used in baked beans and soups.
from The name is American, dating to the 19th century, when these durable, cheap-to-store beans were a staple ration of the United States Navy — so the bean took the fleet's name. Before that they were simply 'pea beans,' and botanically they're a cultivar of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, the New World species Spanish and Portuguese ships carried back from the Americas.
- naval rations
- Named for feeding the U.S. Navy in the 1800s
- senate tradition
- Bean soup served daily in Senate since early 1900s
- same plant
- Identical species as kidney and pinto beans
- gas chemistry
- Indigestible sugars feed your gut's methane factory
- boston roots
- The bean in classic Boston baked beans