Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — BAKED BEANS ARE REPLACED [ARTICLE]

BAKED BEANS ARE REPLACED

Spaghetti Is Now Popular Dish In Boston—One Merchant Alone Imported 500,000 Cases. Boston. —Who hath done murder to Boston bean? Boston is honeycombed with restaurants and eats persistently, earnest1. and enthusiastically. The dish that characterizes its eating is spaghetti. One Boston merchant imported 600,000 cases of spaghetti* in 1905. Last year he Imported more than 90Q,000 cases. This is something over 12,000 tons. This year all records are expected to go by the board. And this in the town where the bill of fare is supposed to be beans, beads, beans, occasionally varied with the beloved cod, though the testimony of restaurant men is that Boston eats no more beans per capita than other cities, but holds the spaghetti championship of the western hemisphere. The consumption of beans is falling off yearly in contrast with the gain made by spaghetti.