Beans about Politics

Amidst the ubiquitous stories about the disappearance of Lori Hacking and terrorism alerts, I saw a story on KSL TV tonight about a New Hampshire company that's introducing two new varieties of beans: Boston Baked Beans (for Democrats) and Texas Chili Beans (for Republicans). Each has a grinning charicature of the party's mascot -- a donkey on the baked benas and an elephant on the chili beans -- as well as tongue-in-cheek commentary about the opposing candidate. In addition to being amusing, a protion of the proceeds from each will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.

Unfortunately, as the anchorwoman pointed out, the company neglected to provide green beans for fans of Ralph Nader.