Beanplating

You know I find a million new words, so this is just one of a zillion. Yeah, are you ever guilty of bean plating?

Bean plating. All right, this one’s a little rarer than the other ones, but bean plating comes from the site Metafilter, which is this group discussion site that’s been around for 10 plus years.

And on this site, they have an in-joke that’s going for a few years now, and it’s traveled in other circles where bean plating is to overthink something.

Oh, I’m a world-class bean plater. Right, it comes from a joke. It was a funny video, I think it was. And they were overthinking it.

And this guy posted it and he says, “Hi, I’m on Metafilter and I could overthink a plate of beans.”

And it’s kind of like, you could look at a plate of beans like, “Well, are the beans staring back? Maybe I should use pinto. What about refra— How much fiber is in those things?”

Yeah, exactly. It’s like a plate of beans. Let’s eat it, right? Cook it, eat it, done. Plate of beans.

So bean plating is to think too long and hard about something that doesn’t really merit it at all.

I like that.

I do too.

Thanks to Metafilter.

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