Beanz

I’ve always enjoyed the 1970s/early 1980s Defenders comics. The stories are bonkers. Issue 89 is a case in point. There is artistic license on the cover. Inside they are dressed in street clothes when standing at the grave. 

Patsy has inherited her mother’s house and they immediately head over there. The house comes complete with a housekeeper who says she has no food in the house for all the unexpected guests. She sends Val to the supermarket with a list. Soon after Val departs they realize a Norse Goddess may well not posess any cash. Bruce is given some money and told to run after her. He literally does just that….rushing down the street with a bunch of notes clasped in his fist. Some Yobs decide to mug him for the money. Bad move. Bruce turns green and soon sorts them out. The Hulk continues to the supermarket and is just in time to foil a robbery. Val loses her list in the fighting but the Hulk decides beans are just what is needed.

A sensible housekeeper would have sent someone else to get real food, but no, they all sit down to an evening meal consisting of a cauldron of beans and nothing else..

This image reminds me of those 1940s DC Thompson etc strips (before my time) where austerity meant that food featured often as the main focus. Desperate Dan with his giant cow pies (with horns sticking out of the top). Housewives leaving pies on open windowsills to “cool” (why?) so Hungry Horace or “tramps” could steal them and Korky the Cat with a huge plate of a mountain of Bangers and Mash (Mashed potato always had the numerous sausages sticking out at odd angles). etc etc