Originally appeared on my Blew's Clues blog:
Friends for the ages
So, I have this friend. We'll call her Murphy. She was sitting on her porch the other day stringing beans that she had grown in her own garden on her own patch of rural Indiana. This would be unremarkable if it weren't for the fact that, in her childhood, she hadn't known that vegetables actually sprouted from the ground. In the world of her mother, the cook in the home, beans came from cans.
And they occasionally came with pork, as in pork and beans. And in Murphy's house, those pork and beans from the can were served in a big bowl, unheated. Unless they were the pork and beans that came in the form of beanie weenies in a frozen Swanson's aluminum plate. In that case, being able to chew them necessitated a trip to the oven.
Fish came in sticks, also from the freezer. And mashed potatoes came from a box.
So you'll understand why picturing Murphy sitting on a porch stringing and snapping a passle of pods was, for me, hiLARious. How would she know how to string a bean? Well, she married a lovely farm boy, who, she pointed out as I chortled, also consumed cold beans from a can during his childhood. Of course, he was on a tractor at the time. Clearly, if he had been thinking, he would have loaded up his bunson burner on that there tractor and had him some hot beans.
And they occasionally came with pork, as in pork and beans. And in Murphy's house, those pork and beans from the can were served in a big bowl, unheated. Unless they were the pork and beans that came in the form of beanie weenies in a frozen Swanson's aluminum plate. In that case, being able to chew them necessitated a trip to the oven.
Fish came in sticks, also from the freezer. And mashed potatoes came from a box.
So you'll understand why picturing Murphy sitting on a porch stringing and snapping a passle of pods was, for me, hiLARious. How would she know how to string a bean? Well, she married a lovely farm boy, who, she pointed out as I chortled, also consumed cold beans from a can during his childhood. Of course, he was on a tractor at the time. Clearly, if he had been thinking, he would have loaded up his bunson burner on that there tractor and had him some hot beans.
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