Are beans "the perfect fruit" ,"the magical fruit" or "good for your heart"?

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Debate amongst several of us including my9 year old. I always knew it as:

Beans beans the perfect fruit
The more you eat the more you toot
The more you toot the better you feel
Beans beans with every meal!

Other, competing versions include

Beans beans are good for your heart
The more you eat the more you fart
The more you fart the better you feel
Beans beans with every meal!

and lastly

Beans beans the MAGICAL fruit
The more you eat the more you toot
The more you toot the better you feel
Beans beans with every meal!

What say you?

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Magical fruit, here.

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Alternate, which I knew: the musical fruit, with the “the more you toot” following lines.

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“The musical fruit” when adults were present.

“Good for your heart” among others your own age.

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Shit, you’re right. It’s musical I was thinking of, not magical. Scratch my answer above.

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Magical fruit, as a kid. Since then I’ve also heard “good for your heart”, but this is the first I’ve seen “perfect fruit”.

Though they are sort of banana-shaped.

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Aren’t beans vegetables?

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Ditto. Musical, and good for your heart, but perfect is new to me.

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They’re legumes, at any rate.

I make a delish black bean soup with chunky salsa, lime juice, garlic, onions, cumin, and olive oil. You would, however, need some Beano if you’re going to eat it.

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Cyanide & Happiness (Explosm.net) :slight_smile:

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This. And the final line is “Hey mom, let’s have beans for every meal.”

And yes, beans, like all legumes, are technically fruit.

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Musical fruit. But the last line is “So eat your beans with every meal.”

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Beans, beans, a very good fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
So eat your beans with every meal.

Or

Beans, beans, are good for your heart
The more you eat, the more you fart
The more you fart, the better you feel,
So eat your beans with every meal.

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The version I learned from Dear Old Dad:
Beans, beans, my favorite fruit,
The more I eat, the more I poot,
The more I poot, the better I feel,
So let’s have beans for every meal!

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My last line was always “Now you’re ready for another meal!”

Musical Fruit/Toot was taught to me by my wacky aunt when I was about 6, and Heart/Fart was a schoolyard favorite.

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Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat the more you toot
The more you toot the better you feel
So eat beans at every meal!

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New England variant.

Beans Beans, the Magical fruit
the more you eat , the more you toot
the more you toot, the better you feel
And then you are ready for another meal

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Beans are the musical fruit.

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“Perfect” doesn’t have enough syllables. “Musical” does.

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Beans beans the MAGICAL veg
The more you eat the deeper you dredge
The deeper you dredge the nastier the smell
So eat some beans and send us to hell!