I didn't actually SAY that coffee was a bean but if it was me I would have said coffee fruit. I've always thought of coffee as being a bean and by reasoning through my education and I distinctly remember hearing beans beans the wonderful fruit. I also remember I have some kind of memory thing too I think.  Anyway, it's tea time and I need soak my tea bark

No need to apologise old bean, most of us thought they is beans too, we just has this program call QI over here and they have all sorts of totally useless facts like that coffee beans ain't beans but seeds.
 
Be assured yous is just as unejumacated as the rest of us mere mortals and furry aliens.

From now on I'll just think of my coffee as dark brown seed nectar! 
 
 
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I was the one with the bean poll comment.  No need for you to apologize, Bill.  AS far as I'm concerned, it's Juan Valdez who's mislead us all these years.  

And peanuts are neither peas nor nuts.
They're good.

Beans, beans, the magical fruit!  The more we eat, the more we toot.  The more we toot, the better we feel, so let's eat beans with every meal!

Yea, me too. I thought coffee beans were "beans" until someone on TV told me they are NOT beans but actually "seeds".
 
So then.... please to tell me..... what pray tell ARE beans?!
SEEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
bean

bēn/
noun
plural noun: beans
1. an edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants.
 
So either way is correct, folks. No need to mislead! No need to apologize!
 
Carry on, bean breath!

The next thing you know, they'll be claiming tomato is a fruit! 

Old55
The next thing you know, they'll be claiming tomato is a fruit! 

Is "tomato" one of the members upstairs? 

The next thing you know, they'll be claiming tomato is a fruit!  
 
I Am pretty shure the technology was learnt at Whatstomoto U. if I remember correctly