Why is Boston called "Bean Town"?

[CatWoman]

:shrug:

[Dookus]

1. Boston Baked Beans!

[name not needed]

2. Boston baked beans?

:shrug:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Boston Baked Beans!

[mrboba1]

4. Holy cow!

You think it might be b/c of "Boston Baked Beans?"

[CatWoman]

7. so you all are telling me that those beans originated in Boston?

prove it!!!

That's like saying french toast originated in France.

[matcom]

10. no silly. French toast originated in

Crawford DUH!

[CatWoman]

13. where the hell have you been???

I've been looking for you all day!!!!

where are my pictures?????

[matcom]

18. skinners thread baby

they have been up all day!

sleepy today for some reason :D

[bkcc]

16. i believe you're thinking of "freedom toast".

[salinen]

5. Jack was born in Boston.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. I think it has something to do with how the Charles River smells in July.

:shrug:

[CatWoman]

8. Fun Fact: Chicago was once a big, smelly swamp

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. What do you mean "was once?"

Chicago sucks ass.

[shoelace414]

9. Can you get them at Boston Store?

[Gildor Inglorion]

12. Because of this really cute poem....

"Here's a toast to Boston,
the home of the bean and the cod,
where the Cabots speak only to Lowells,
and the Lowells speak only to God."

It would have been rather vulgar to call it cod-town, wouldn't it?

[CatWoman]

14. cod sucks

my least favorite fish!!

[Gildor Inglorion]

19. My, my....feeling a bit combative today, dearie?

Good for you! But the visualization of sucking cod is just so, so....unsettling....

[CatWoman]

20. LOLOL

Well, I do love smoking cock.

I suppose sucking cod isn't that bad.

:D

[JVS]

21. But without cod there wouldn't be sweet, delicious Lutefisk

[cosmicdot]

15. the popularity of baked beans cooked in molasses with salt pork

... during the colonial era.

of course, I thought of hard-working and blue-collar citizens who have maintained a strong tie to our colonial heritage

((I like the candy version, too))

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. I always thought it was due to the Boston Tea Party.

Everyone switched to Coffee, rather than drink the hated, Imperialist Tea.