bean-eaters

Those eating legumes

Bean-eaters is an ethnic slur directed at people whose cuisine features beans prominently, most often applied disparagingly to Mexicans or other Latin Americans.

The term reduces a culture to a single dietary staple and is used to demean.

Like many food-based slurs, it frames difference as inferiority and should be understood as offensive.

slang

poor

Lacking sufficient resources

frugalSparing with resources
peasantsLow-ranking agricultural workers
working-classManual laborers as group

humble · impoverished · thrifty · economical · subsistence · lower-class · hardscrabble · meager · modest · penny-pinching

artwork

painting

Pigment on canvas

BolognaNorthern Italian regional capital
ItalianOf or from Rome's country
RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening

peasants · dining · realism · baroque · humble · domestic · tableside · naturalism · 16th-century · canvas

dietary

vegetarians

Those abstaining from flesh

plant-basedSourced from flora
vegansThose avoiding all animal products
proteinFolded amino chain

fiber · healthy · economical · sustainable · flexitarians · meatless · budget-conscious · nutritious · wholesome · eco-friendly

ethnic

Mexicans

Citizens of a southern neighbor

LatinosLatin American descendants
HispanicOf Spanish-speaking origin
stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion

slur · offensive · pejorative · derogatory · prejudice · discrimination · xenophobia · racist · insult · epithet

Opposites

dietary preference/practice

bean-eatersmeat-eaters

Consumers of animal flesh

carnivores · pescatarians

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (historical/cultural)

bean-eatersaristocrats

Hereditary ruling class

nobility · upper crust · gourmands

Family

bean, eater, beans, beaned, beaning, eat, eats, ate, eaten

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG