Today's episode is the story of the angry bean.

And I will confess to you, Adam, who is the C detective and is on our show this week.

This bean, I know what type of bean it is, spoiler alert.

This is a bean that made me angry as a child because I simply did not want to consume it

when it was on my plate and I would sit there and my mom would make me sit there until

I ate it and either I would eat it and give up or I wouldn't and then she'd give up

and that she would let me go and play or what have you, but Adam, what is the angry bean?

Well, my travels have taken me all over the place and one of the countries that is for

me is particularly interesting is Myanmar and I've been to Myanmar a couple of times and

the, to me it's a really interesting place because essentially you have this huge rural

population which when I first went there, I don't know, 10 years or so ago, was still

very much living in the past.

Yes, there were visitors, but they didn't, there was, the agriculture had really remained

unchanged for a long time and Myanmar is really interesting because you have this huge

diversity of climate, you know, you have the incredible tropical heat in the south and

then you can go all the way up into the Himalayas in the north and so you get this great temperature

range and huge diversity of crops and Myanmar is a place that's grown a lot of beans over

the years and continues to do and they were a very important export crop, but not just

beans, rice particularly is very important crop in Myanmar, but when I was there I was

really interested to look at what was happening locally because at that time already you had

particularly the Chinese were really starting to increase their influence in the country and that

included encouraging local farmers to abandon their own local varieties to grow Chinese

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