btb01
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I have a question to ask of our Minnesotan Guardians!Near the start of this movie, the Kevin Kline character says that he had a grilled cheese, and a chaser of beans. Does he mean baked beans, green beans, or some other sort of beans? I have to know
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While I can’t definitively say what a real Minnesotan would mean if they just said “beans” (MN was pretty blue in my dialect quiz results), my guess would be baked beans.
Mickey’s Dining Car is actually a real diner in St. Paul that’s still open*. On their menu (which does include a grilled cheese), baked beans are listed as as an optional side, so I’d say that’s probably your answer.




*Sadly their website says they’re currently closed due to Covid, but that they hope to open again soon. Before all this mess it was a 24-hours-a-day 365-days-a-year kind of place. I had thought about heading over there for some pictures with Merle, but didn’t end up making it (partly because it didn’t seem like it’d be quite the same with them being closed).
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