Ah, that was a mistake on my part. It should have read:

"a 10 oz. can of chicken*"

*----only when fresh Kentucky road kill can't be flown in due to fouled spark plugs of the radial engine on the plane.

As has been stated, beans and rice (together) are staples all around the world.

Cajuns eat red beans and rice, often with sausage.
Mexicans have beans with rice
Cubans eat black beans and yellow rice.
In the southeast US, there's Hoppin' John which I understand has it's sources in Africa being brought over by the slaves.
In the Caribbean, the have what they call "rice and peas" the peas are what we would call beans.
The middle eastern / Arabic countries have bean recipes that they server with rice.

Holy Crap!!! I have 2 of those bowls (had 4, only 2 left)

We bought them when my family was in Japan and I was about 8 or 9 back in 1978 or 79.

I found a place online that still sells them and want to buy 4 new ones.

I was going to mention that. Beans by themselves don't give you everything. Rice by itself doesn't give you everything, but together, they have everything.

I think you can get the same thing from beans and corn (beans and cornbread, anyone?)

Thanks for the refresher on the name. It's been a while, and I forgot that.

Don't like the Salsa that much, it's too mild. This is what makes it for me.
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Fond memories of "The Silver Moon" a shack close to LSU campus in Baton Rouge, on the side of a highway. Crescent silver moon painted on the side, dirt parking lot. Two very large women inside were cooking on a couple home kitchen ranges, big steaming pots of red beans and rice. Smoked hot sausage. Cash only. Folding chair furniture. I don't think a health inspector ever saw the place. It was awesome. The beans were spicy but the sausage knocked it out of the park.

The day to eat red beans is Monday. Traditionally the washing day, so the women put an extra pot on the stove with the fire already going. Long gone are the days of doing laundry by hand but restaurants still offer red beans and rice as the special on Monday.

The Silver Moon moved to Chimes St. and got more main stream, not as tasty and now is closed. I sure wish I had asked those ladies for the recipe at the time. ;) I can cook up some respectable red beans and rice but have since wandered off to other beans, rarely making it back to red. My favorite beans are Peruvian beans followed by blackeyed peas.

May the gas be with you!

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Aigel, Silver Moon??? I ate there many times. What great food but never understood how the health dept didn't shut her down. I made MANY deals at that place over Red Bens and Rice!!

You can also (allegedly) go through life never having sex or alcohol.

But would you want to?

You may not have to have meat in your beans and rice but it makes it 1000% tastier if copious quantities of pork products are added.

Cliff. I've had this recipe since the early 80's.

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Awesome!!!

I was in BTR over the holidays - has come a long way. Good and bad. A beans and rice shack like that will never come back, unfortunately.

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dang..that is cool looking. you should get it framed, with some fancy timming and hang it in the kitchen.

my friend did that with a few of grandmas old recipies. it looked super cool in modern kitchen.

No, but you could and it would not kill you.

My wife makes damn good pinto beans, won a few times at cook offs in Texas with them. You want a big ass ham bone in there when the are cooking.

Pigeon Peas and Rice - good eats

Does the "pigeon" mean squab (pigeon meat) ?

Nope, it's a kind of pea/bean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_pea

Pigeon peas are a legume similar to a black eye bean.

At a former job the owner and his wife were born and raised in Louisiana. The got married and liven in New Orleans until they moved to Oklahoma for a better job in the early 1960s.

The wife made some red beans and rice that to paraphrase Jerry Clower, "It was so good it made ya wanna slap yer moma fer never having made something that good"

It had lots of Andouille sausage and Cajun spices. It made everyone start talking like a Cajun. WOOOOOEEEE it was lip smacking good.