Beans were a plant-based food found on Earth.
Use of beans[]
Beans were used in several dishes. This included beans on toast, (TV: Rose, etc.) baked bean sandwiches, (TV: The Bounty Hunter) and eggs and beans on toast. (TV: The Universe is Calling)
History[]
Beans were eaten as early as 493, being served with bread and chicken by Italy's ruler Flavius Theodoric. (PROSE: Goths and Robbers)
In 1996, Amelia Pond cooked baked beans for the newly-regenerated Eleventh Doctor, but he spat them out in disgust, declaring, "Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans." (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
The Ninth Doctor once told Rose Tyler to have her "lovely beans on toast". (TV: Rose) The Tenth Doctor said this again after his regeneration. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
Bernie Harris had a can of baked beans in his Evelyn Street flat, which Owen Harper found hilarious. (TV: Ghost Machine)
Whilst eating a plate of baked beans, Clyde Langer asked Mr Smith to tell him about the Slitheen-Blathereen family. When Mr Smith recalled the Blathereen "farting themselves to death", Clyde jokingly asked if he would suffer the same fate. Mr Smith assured him that it was scientifically impossible for a human to be filled with methane on a scale that causes death in the manner of the Blathereen and it was safe to continue eating. (WC: Alien File: Blathereen)
Jack Harkness asked Rhys Williams to leave the hub to get some fake shopping he wanted so as he and Ianto Jones could have sex. He told him he'd go later as the beans were done, to which Ianto replied, "Bloody beans." (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)
Luke Smith told Sarah Jane, Clyde and Rani that his friends at the University of Oxford lived off baked beans and curry. Clyde remarked that it must be like living with the Slitheen. (TV: The Vault of Secrets)
Ryan Sinclair once at eggs and beans on toast in a café in Sheffield. (TV: The Universe is Calling)
When K9 Mark 2 was disabled by Dauntless Prison's defences, he fell in a dustbin. Some of the rubbish in it was baked beans. (TV: Liberation)
When Starkey was on the run from the Department, he cooked a tin of baked beans on a fire made from twigs. K9 decided to help with his photon beam, causing the baked beans to burst out. (TV: The Korven)
As K9 and Starkey went "walkies" while monitored by Alistair Gryffen, he reminisced about going to a cafe ten years before which served "the best baked bean sandwiches in London". K9 reacted to this stating, "Prognosis, gas." (TV: The Bounty Hunter)
After she accidentally summoned a number of real versions of pantomime characters and artefacts to a theatre, the Thirteenth Doctor used magic beans, which grew into a gigantic, climbable beanstalk, to reach a high shelf to get a genie's magic lamp with which to put things to rights. (COMIC: It's Behind You!)
Other references[]
After letting off a loud fart at Park Vale Comprehensive School's assembly, Headmaster "Greg Blakeman" claimed that his wife had gave him cabbage and bean tartlets the last night, which he cited as "another reason to despise Jamie Oliver." (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
Behind the scenes[]
- Doctor Who officially licensed baked beans were offered during the early Tom Baker era by Crosse & Blackwell. They came in standard 15.5 ounce cans, with labels that featured the Doctor Who logo alongside a drawing of the Fourth Doctor.
