Viral topic of ‘bean daddy’ opens a can of worms on Twitter

Viral topic of ‘bean daddy’ opens a can of worms on Twitter

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Manual can openers are not exactly intuitive. During New Year’s weekend, Seattle musician and podcast host John Roderick discovered this when the kitchen gadget baffled his daughter. Roderick, founder of The Long Winters and a former Seattle Town Hall candidate, explained the events on a Twitter topic that has since sparked many debates online and has earned the singer the nicknames of “Bean Dad” and “Can Opener Dad “.

Roderick did not immediately respond to a request for comment. His Twitter account was deleted on Sunday afternoon after the Internet furor lasted for an entire day.

“So yesterday my daughter (9) was hungry and I was putting together a puzzle, so I said over my shoulder, ‘make some baked beans’,” wrote Roderick in the first tweet on the topic. “She said, ‘How?’ like all kids do when they want YOU to do it, so I said, ‘Open a can and put it in the pot.’ She brought me the can and said, “Open how?”

The topic goes on to explain how Roderick told his daughter to “study the parts, study the can, find out what the inventor of the can opener was thinking when they tried to solve this problem”.

Although her daughter discovered part of how the can opener worked, its fixation mechanism baffled her, prompting Roderick to say, “Honey, none of us are going to eat anything today until we get into this can of beans.”

In short: Roderick’s daughter tries “six hours on and off,” at one point telling her father that she hates him, but ends up figuring out how to successfully attach the opener and remove the lid.

But what could have remained just a private family story has turned into a parental drama widely shared and commented on on social media, with thousands of people retweeting and commenting on Roderick’s topic.

Although pay attention – many people are wrongly claiming that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pondered, but that tweet came from a parody account. Singer Dionne Warwick, on the other hand, tweeted that, although she hadn’t read everything, the topic Bean Dad “it seems absurd.”

Many could not understand why Roderick did not teach his daughter to use the can opener.

“I have 3 daughters sitting around not making me (ungrateful) fashion,” wrote a Twitter user. “So, let’s test the solution to the problem by locking them in a room with a fire extinguisher bolted to the vaulted ceiling and establishing a controlled burn.”

Said another: “The story of the bean dad just reminds me of a high school math class where they tried to teach us the Pythagorean theorem, showing us the measurements of a bunch of triangles and saying ‘Did you notice anything?’, How I apologize for not being Pythagoras myself at the age of eleven. “

Roderick had some defenders. “I love it,” wrote a Twitter user, “I’ve been a child therapist for 14 years. This is a love story. People saying it is abusive have no context about JR / child, so it looks bad for them and they are projecting your experience with shitty parents. “

Roderick later tweeted that he was being called a child abuser for making his daughter wait six hours to eat.

“The best part of being evaluated by these concerned parents is that they continue to insist on how to deprive my child of baked beans for SIX HOURS is child abuse,” wrote Roderick. “Six hours is the break between meals. Lunch at noon, dinner at six. They are literally saying CHILD ABUSE.”

On Sunday, Roderick tweeted about his sudden viral fame, writing: “Someone had to start the year off hard!”

But not everyone was a fan of that tweet too. “Sorry, you can no longer tweet until you learn to assemble a phone and / or computer,” wrote a Twitter user.

On Sunday afternoon, before the account was deleted, Roderick’s original tweet kicking off the Bean Dad saga had been tweeted with quotes more than 14,300 times and was still growing.

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