About

Things Filled With Beans That Shouldn't Be is a photo fad featuring pictures of various objects with baked beans poured inside of them.

Origin

On February 12th, 2017, a Facebook^[1] page titled "Things full of beans that shouldn't be full of beans" was created, which highlights photographs of various objects filled entirely with baked beans. Within three months, the page gained over 187,000 likes.

Spread

On February 13th, the Facebook page posted a photograph of a person rolling a cigarette with baked beans inside of the paper (shown below, left).^[10] On February 16th, the page uploaded a picture of a glass and a Coca-Cola bottle filled with beans (shown below, right).^[9] On February 22nd, Imgur^[8] user HKexcess posted a photo gallery featuring objects filled with beans, which garnered more than 365,000 views and 8,100 points over the next three months.

On April 14th, the internet humor site Smosh^[6] published a listicle highlighting 19 images from the Facebook page. On April 19th, Redditor PMmeYourNoodz submitted a collection of images from the Facebook page to /r/pics.^[5] The same day, the internet humor blog Dangerous Minds^[7] published a listicle of the beans photographs. On March 2nd, the /r/BeansInThings^[2] subreddit was launched for "pictures of beans in things that beans shouldn't be in," which gained over 1,000 subscribers in two months. On May 1st, 2017, Twitter user @kweenDW^[3] tweeted a photograph of a Crocs clog filled with baked beans, along with the message "cookin up beans in the crocpot" (shown below). Within nine days, the tweet received upwards of 29,000 likes and 12,100 retweets. That day, Redditor LambentEnigma submitted the photograph to /r/shittyfoodporn.^[4]

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