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Kidney beans do not agree with me. In fact, we are having a major disagreement.

*curls up under blankets*

Imma watch some TV.

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[chinae.livejournal.com]

Drink hot tea, preferably chamillon tea.

:)

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

omg love the icon. NARF!

[musyc]

Urg. I have a similar problem with navy beans. It saddens me, because few things go better with cornbread than slow-cooked beans. (Except slow-cooked chili.)

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my hell. I can't eat any beans unless they are pureed like chickpeas in hummus and things like kidney beans? Never. D: Hot water bottle?

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

You should take the beans to court. I find that shortens almost all disagreements. :D

All jokes aside, hope you and your beans come to some sort of compromise soon. :)

[mcgonagalls-cat.livejournal.com]

(Its not the beans, its having to be in the same physical area for too many waking hours with Co-Worker Fail.)

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Kidney beans are poisonous if improperly prepared.

http://offthecontrary.blogspot.com/2006/05/science-fact-dangers-of-kidney-beans.html

Did you cook them yourself? Were they dry or canned?

Always boil dry kidney beans for at least 5-10 minutes. Even if you simmer them for hours and hours, if you don't get the heat up high enough for a little while, you can make yourself very sick.

[silveraspen]

I did not know this. This is very very useful information!

[mistressindi.livejournal.com]

I had no idea they did this. Thank you for the warning!

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

And today I've learned something very valuable since I love beans with all my heart. Thank you!

[iesika.livejournal.com]

In that case, watch out for cannellini (white kidney) beans, broad beans, and fava beans, which have high amounts of the same toxin (Phytohaemagglutinin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytohaemagglutinin)).

I think most beans have it, but in safer levels. Generally speaking, it's safest to boil all your dried beans for a bit before cooking. I bring them to a boil for ten minutes or so and then cut the heat and leave them to soak for cooking.

I also love beans a ridiculous amount. Mmm beans.

*refrains from typing out the lyrics the to I Love Beans from Spaceghost*

[piperki.livejournal.com]

Hey, I don't know all the lyrics to I Love Beans. Is there a Youtubage for this? *hopes*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

There was the FUNNIEST Cowboy Bebop AMV to this song (it looked like they just dubbed the song over the opening convenience store scene in the movie, and it worked ridiculously well) but it was in the pre-YouTube era and the girl who made it took her site down when she left the fandom (?) and now, as far as I know, it is lost to the ether. D:

(At least I think it was the same song ... how many songs are there called 'I Love Beans'?)

lima lentil soy and pinto

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Completely ignore the video part. I tried to find a version that wasn't a stupid slideshow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt0YnVrfzGM

Just close your eyes and sing along.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Huh. This, I did not know!

I got them from a can, but I wonder about the can.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

The canning process ought to render them safe.

Even cooked kidneys have small amounts of the poison though... So there is at least a logical reason why kidney beans in particular might not agree with you. I don't care for them very much myself, but I think that might have more to do with cafeteria red-beans-and-rice as a small child.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I usually use pinto beans. I think I will go back to them....

[iesika.livejournal.com]

I made a list in another response, but I'll repeat it here for your benefit. Phytohaemagglutinin is present in most beans, but kidney, cannellini (white kidney), fava, and broad beans, and some varieties of green beans, have much higher levels. They should be safe if they're boiled for long enough (10 minutes), but even that doesn't completely remove all of the toxin.

Maybe you just have a tender tummy.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, that is also true, I tend to get food poisoning fairly easily. :)

[cat63.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought too. I heard about this via Esther Rantzen's "That's Life" show back when I was a teenager and have eschewed kidney beans ever since, just in case.

[piperki.livejournal.com]

Tell me you didn't cook them from dry. They were canned, right? :o

[piperki.livejournal.com]

Whoops, somebody beat me to it up there.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yep, canned. But I wonder if they were canned properly, they were overly firm for beans.

[piperki.livejournal.com]

Wah. Best of luck, that sounds horrid. But the dark red ones do tend to be much firmer than normal beans.

no but seriouly sam, click the link.

[insixeighttime.livejournal.com]

http://finnb.net/a/cv.html

click the link and search for "extribuli".

I found a cafe reader! (I mean, out of the 25 google hits for 'extribuli', 23 are yours, one is in Hindu, and one is his).

Re: no but seriouly sam, click the link.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

OMG AWESOME. The word is working its way into academia! NEXT STOP: THE WORLD! *dies* That's so cool. It sounds like a great paper too.

Re: no but seriouly sam, click the link.

[insixeighttime.livejournal.com]

I would so love to hear that talk... I think I'm going to make it a new goal to use extribuli in some paper before I graduate.

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

I really don't like kidney beans. Not because of the taste or even the texture.

It's because every time my Dad would make chili, it'd look like there were beetles crawling around the pot. I just...can't handle them. They get picked out of every meal I find them in.

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Forgot to say "FEEL BETTER QUICK" before hitting post. :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL I AM THE SAME WAY ABOUT ONIONS. They have to be fried soft or chopped very fine and I won't eat them on sandwiches because it feels like I'm crunching up bugs.

THERE IS NO LOGIC.

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

Beans! *Shakes fist!*

Feel better soon.

[danceswchopstck.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with a product called Beano?

If you tend to have trouble with gas from beans, in general, Beano is a really good thing to have on hand. You take 2 or 3 tablets of it before you eat the beans. My experience is that I'm a lot less likely to have trouble if I do this. I still get some gas, but it tends not to be painful.

...Have I hit TMI, yet?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, my mum is a BIG fan of beano :D But actually it wasn't so much gas as nausea and overall not-feeling-well.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon.

I have avoided beans for the last couple of years after a similar experience with a bean "chilli" served on a cycling holiday. It was the only veggie option, so it was eat that or be hungry, but in retrospect, hunger would have been more pleasant. It didn't even taste of anything much, hence the quote marks...

[midgetgems.livejournal.com]

The only 'beans' I ever eat come in a tin with the word 'Heinz' on the front. Toast is usually involved too. I'm hungry now and I'm supposed to be writing a play damnit! Beans on toast is proper student food though.