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the humble vault where dirt quietly stockpiles protein and broadcasts its opinions afterward
means A bean is an edible seed (or the pod that holds it) from various legume plants, eaten as a protein-rich food.
from From Old English 'bēan,' with sturdy cousins across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'baun,' German 'Bohne' — all tracing back to a shared ancestor whose deeper roots are murky. The original 'bean' referred to broad beans, the only kind Europeans knew before the Americas sent over kidney, pinto, and the rest of the family. The word's been around long enough to sprout slang: 'not worth a bean,' 'spill the beans,' and 'bean' for head, that other round vault that stockpiles thoughts.
- royal seal
- Egyptian priests forbade beans as too sacred to eat
- election tool
- Ancient Greeks voted by dropping beans in jars
- musical fruit
- Indigestible sugars feed gut bacteria, producing gas
- oldest crop
- Beans were domesticated over 7,000 years ago
- space food
- Beans have been grown aboard the ISS
kona typica — hawaiian coffee variety grown on kona slopes since 1828, world's most expensive coffee bean
jamaican blue mountain — coffee grown in blue mountain range above 5,000 feet, 20% of world's premium coffee market
civet coffee — indonesian beans digested by palm civets, world's rarest coffee at $600+ per pound