Bean Soup & Parasocial Pozole

So humans have been eating wild legumes for about 30,000

years.

Okay.

This dates back to the Neanderthals, who we've been talking a lot about recently for some reason.

They're really in the zeitgeist.

But dental calculus shows evidence of wild pea consumption.

And that dates back to around the Middle East and Thailand.

That's when we started eating beans.

So it all started there.

But in a much more, okay, you didn't laugh nearly as much at that as I thought you were going to.

You didn't even react.

Well, I want to listen to what you're saying.

I want to make sure.

But I'm talking about Neanderthals eating beans.

What does that have to do with what we're talking about? Nothing from you.

My God.

Okay.

So the bean soup theory originated on TikTok as all beautiful things do.

Yes.

Yeah.

in 2023 a creator named vibing granola mom who i do not know anything about but uh i would like to ask her how is utah how is that beautiful salt lake city um but she uploaded a video for it was a recipe for bean soup and the caption reads all my anemic girlies this one is for you and the main ingredient in this bean soup is as you can imagine a variety of beans Followed by kale, some broth, maybe some onion.

This is very innocuous content.

How could anybody have a problem? Well, you would be shocked how many people have a problem actually, because a lot of people started commenting things like, well, what if I don't like beans? I can't eat that.

I'm allergic to beans.

So can I, can you please upload a video that's more inclusive to me? And thus the term bean soup theory was invented.