beans ?

[UndertheOcean]

and cake ?

[Kali]

1. pintos and cornbread - pretty close

[freshwest]

2. Pintos, cornbread, greens and yams. That'll feed an army.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (in my top 5 books) -- Alobar, a former king who...

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... narrowly escaped execution because he was showing signs of aging (gray hair)
finds a bean in his slice of cake during a pagan ritual. He is made "King of the
Bean", rules for 12 days of absolute hedonistic drunken sex-crazed silliness... or,
as MFM calls it -- "Saturday night" -- and then faces another execution again at
the end of that 12-day reign.
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There is a real bean-in-cake ritual in English Christmas/solstice ritual celebrations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean-feast
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[HopeHoops]

4. Beans, beans, they're good for your heart...

[KamaAina]

5. Beans, beans, the musical fruit

The more you eat, the more you toot!

[HopeHoops]

6. That's the version my wife uses to diffuse the less polite one in her kindergarten class.

Some things live on forever.

[surrealAmerican]

7. Isn't that one of the things you bake into a "king cake"?

What was it: a bean, a coin, and a plastic baby?

[geardaddy]

8. Tofu?

tofu /dou-fu/ "bean cake"