Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit

"Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit" is a playground saying and children's song about the capacity for beans to contribute to flatulence.[1]

The basis of the song (and bean/fart humor in general) is the high amount of oligosaccharides present in beans. Bacteria in the large intestine digest these sugars, producing carbon dioxide and hydrogen. These gases are expelled from the body as flatulence.[2]

Lyrics

Beans, beans, the musical fruit

The more you eat, the more you toot

The more you toot, the better you feel.

So let's have beans with every meal.[3]

  • A version of the rhyme appears at the beginning of Robert Crumb's comic strip, "Crybaby's Blues". [4]

References

Footnotes

  1. Carey, Bjorn Scientists take the ‘toot’ out of beans NBC News, April 25, 2006 (accessed November 17, 2007).
  2. "Flatulence". MedicaLook.com. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  3. Andrew Croft. "The Nature of Beans".
  4. Crumb, Robert. The Complete Crumb Comics Vol 11. Fantagraphics Books 1995, p.42. ISBN 978-1560971726. (Originally from Arcade #5, Spring 1976.)

General sources

  • Dawson, Jim. Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart, ISBN 1-58008-011-1
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