Someday, he suggested, tongue in cheek, you might find that a can of baked beans will be worth more than a bar of gold.

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And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks.

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Today, you can still get a taste of real beans and cornbread throughout West Virginia, whether you are curled up in small corner booth at the local diner or are one of 300 guests attending the annual Mercer County Democrats "bean dinner" honoring the likes of U.S. Senators Robert C.

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There is a weak U.S. dollar making commodities more expensive, Gross says, and there is rising globalization that is putting Starbucks stores around the globe, and depending on coffee beans from areas of the world where a droughts can upset an agricultural economy and affect an entire annual crop output.

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There are no magic beans that you can toss on the ground and suddenly a bunch of money grows on trees.

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And if somebody is going to promise that they can wave a magic wand or sprinkle the pixie dust or plant the beans in the right place so that we can get out of this problem, they're just not being straight with you and they're not being straight with the American people.

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