Eat your beans.

Just don't take them for granted. I decided to work for my dinner tonight, just to make sure I am fully appreciating the effort behind the ingredients before they are refried. When I asked Ralf Swenson Jr. what needed to be done around the place he didn't hesitate. The black beans were an experiment and they needed to be harvested a.s.a.p. When I was given a tiny container I thought maybe Ralf Sr. was mocking me. He said it would hold a pound. That quart of beans took me over an hour to pick and shell, and I didn't move a foot. My hourly rate is generally pretty high, I am treating these beans better than I do my stash of scrap gold.