Is bean pie the most underrated dessert? 🥧

[boogers]

Breh ive been eating bean pies since I was 13 I dont have to be sold on that lol..I was disagreeing with baklava being better than bean pie

oh my b

baklava is delicious but i wouldnt compare it to a pie

i always get baklava at the greek/mediterranean place. mass produced stuff is gross gotta get it fresh

 

[patscorpio]

oh my b

baklava is delicious but i wouldnt compare it to a pie

i always get baklava at the greek/mediterranean place. mass produced stuff is gross gotta get it fresh

I grew up with Greek neighbors...they used to stay making that...never fukked with it over any pie

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Straight fire. Haven’t had one in years after the Mosque closed down.

 

[boogers]

I grew up with Greek neighbors...they used to stay making that...never fukked with it over any pie

i liked those dolmas wrapped in the grape leaves. they were kinda gross but delicious at the same time. they have some kinda drippy snot sauce on em tho

 

[TripleAgent]

Well made bean pie is flames. Inexpensive and relatively healthy too.

 

[Clayton Endicott]

yall ain't never but a bean pie and a final call combo

Mom dukes would always cop both from the brothers at the temple that was on our block

 

[The Pledge]

What's the reason for bean pies? NOI invented it to avoid sweet potatoes, but why?

Got curious because this was a good question

ChatGPT:
Correct — bean pies were created by members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as a replacement for sweet potato pie.





Reason:


Sweet potatoes were considered a “slave food” or “so-called slave diet” item — part of the foods African Americans inherited from the plantation system. Elijah Muhammad, the NOI leader, taught dietary reform based on his book How to Eat to Live, which discouraged many traditional Southern and soul food staples viewed as unhealthy or culturally degrading.





Key motivations:

1. Health: Navy beans (a NOI staple) are high-protein, low-fat, and approved as one of the few ideal foods in How to Eat to Live.
2. Identity reform: Replacing slave-era foods with new, self-determined ones symbolized independence and discipline.
3. Religious compliance: The bean pie used the “divine” navy bean as its base — the only bean Elijah Muhammad explicitly approved.
4. Cultural pride: The pie became a distinctly NOI and later broader Black Muslim cultural symbol — a clean, nutritious alternative to sweet potato pie.

Would you like a short historical timeline of how the bean pie spread beyond the NOI?

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Kinda like pumpkin pie… has more of a cinnamon flavor.

Bean pie is really good (depending on the baker of course)

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Got curious because this was a good question

ChatGPT:
Correct — bean pies were created by members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as a replacement for sweet potato pie.





Reason:


Sweet potatoes were considered a “slave food” or “so-called slave diet” item — part of the foods African Americans inherited from the plantation system. Elijah Muhammad, the NOI leader, taught dietary reform based on his book How to Eat to Live, which discouraged many traditional Southern and soul food staples viewed as unhealthy or culturally degrading.





Key motivations:

1. Health: Navy beans (a NOI staple) are high-protein, low-fat, and approved as one of the few ideal foods in How to Eat to Live.
2. Identity reform: Replacing slave-era foods with new, self-determined ones symbolized independence and discipline.
3. Religious compliance: The bean pie used the “divine” navy bean as its base — the only bean Elijah Muhammad explicitly approved.
4. Cultural pride: The pie became a distinctly NOI and later broader Black Muslim cultural symbol — a clean, nutritious alternative to sweet potato pie.

Would you like a short historical timeline of how the bean pie spread beyond the NOI?

Think my issue with NOI is associating anything southern/rural as "slave food."

We ate yams in Africa and sweet potatoes are close to that. I understand rejecting pork but okra, greens, black eyed peas....we brought that across the water.

Poor understanding of west/central African culture and history and how it ties to us.

 

[fscballin]

Oh you muslim now

 

[fscballin]

1 slice = 44 grams of carbs??????

 

[SpikeLee Cumbersmith]

What yall think? Ppl made jokes of it but I grew up on it. Amazing

I think that it's because of the unappealing looking NOI bean pies. Presented like this, makes it look good

 

[The Pledge]

I think that it's because of the unappealing looking NOI bean pies. Presented like this, makes it look good

Yeah, my first pie didn’t look like that shyt at all

 

[Lord Beasley]

from dallas, never had a bean pie in my life. and i dare one of you niccas to call me white. we can ban bet and you can pack yourself out hastily

 

[The Pledge]

from dallas, never had a bean pie in my life. and i dare one of you niccas to call me white. we can ban bet and you can pack yourself out hastily

Breh willing to die on this bean pies hill

I respect it