All memes and jokes aside it's really good stuff if you can find it at your local grocery store. It has a recipe on the back and comes with the seasoning in the bag. Just add meat and some veggies.

Look at that troglodyte over there, admiring our delectable bounty of assorted beans

Beans are a starch

Beans are more than that. Beans/legumes/pulses are, as the children's song suggests, magical (even if they are not fruit).

They can take the place of meat or other proteins, like in a stew/chili/curry, a proteiny topping on rice/pasta, slabs of tofu, or even as a sandwich stuffing (falafel in pita, black bean burger in bun, peanut butter in a sandwich, filling in a burrito).

They can take the place of starch, as in a bean porridge or baked beans in some circumstances.

They can act as a green vegetable, as green beans or edamame or peas.

They can be a handy ready-to-eat snack, like peanuts or wasabi peas.

They're a sweet filling for desserts, like peanut butter or peanut brittle or whole peanuts in chocolate bars, or Chinese red bean paste, or all sorts of Vietnamese and Thai dishes.

Even on the non-food side of things they're excellent high protein feed for livestock, green "manure" for nitrogen fixation in soil, and useful for production of various industrial chemicals and materials.

I always get both beans in my burrito bowl. Why settle for only one bean bowl?

I've made three bean chili with black, pinquito and navy beans.

7 BEANS LATER

No no, it was the associated number of beans that were all super long, then just cut into smaller bits so they'd fit in the jar.

Seconded.