Celebrate Wicked Good Lobstah
L.L.Bean
Maine Farmhouse Journal Entry, Baked Bean Suppers, August 20,2001
They are perhaps a uniquely New England tradition. If they are common elsewhere around the country, I am not aware of it. I am talking, of course, about the custom common in New England of sitting down to a family-style meal of baked beans and the fixin's. Sure, you can find baked beans all up and down the east coast, and into the midwest as well - but as a side dish, not as the main course!