Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1883 — Boston Baked Beans. [ARTICLE]

Boston Baked Beans.

A Boston paper laments the decline of Boston baked beans, a dish famous in Yankee legends and newspaper paragraphs. It has not been generally known that Boston baked beans were slowly but surely passing away. Such, however, appears to be the sad fact. The Boston paper says that within the past few years the cost of beans, of pork, and of labor has increased, “while the price of the classic products, hot from the place of cooking, has been raised but slightly.” As a consequence the Boston bean-cart is not so profitable nor so common as it used to be. This is a very distressing state of things for the people, to whom the flatulent bean is os “dear as re&imbered kisses after death.” The bean-pole is the axle on which the Hub revolves. The bean is the gentle stimulation of the mind that results in Boston lecture-courses. It is the food which Boston culture lives on. It provokes the Boston bard to song, and the Boston seer to trimscendental revelation which no one but habitual eaters of the venerated Boston bean can appreciate er understand. To deprive the Bostonian of his native dish would be to revolutionize his character. The Bostonian of the future would probably be as uncultured as the persistent consumer of hog and hominy of the west. Boston baked beans must be restored to their pristine vigor.