It's Still Life

No. 6: Things in a Can

About 10 minutes drive from Grandma’s
porch, and a few minutes more past that
totem pole at the Y in the road to my
cousins’ old house, is the B&M restaurant.

It was famous for a bowl of pork and beans 
with thick sauce sweetened with molasses. 
The beans, they were just normal beans. 
The pork was a thumbnail-size square 
of wibble-wobble pork fat. 

B&M pork and beans also came in a tin 
for purchase at your local shop. I never ate
B&M tinned beans because that fat made
me gag, and nothing made my mother rage
about her kitchen than me gagging on her food.