Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit
Chickpea chocolate chip cookies, black bean brownies. Beans in sweets. Gus is terrifically confused. His mom thinks he can't tell the difference but Gus has the most discerning palate any 6 year old could hope for. Plus he saw her throw the can of beans into the food processor. This week it's beans. He can tell because he's been farting like a demon. Mom gets angry with him then the corner of her mouth curls up and he can tell she's just pretend angry. Every time Gus feels like he has to let one go he makes a bigger deal about it, trying to get his mom to laugh. Most of the time he's a winner. Lately though it's growing tired. After 8 straight days of lentil burgers and loaves and burritos and chilis no wonder. Last month it was tofu. That lasted a week. Deep fried it was fine but any other way it was a spongey, tasteless mash. Well ok, the scrambled egg like thing was good but that's cause she dumped salsa all over it. He doesn't get it, this constant b...