Denta bean

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"Roast ten cans of denta beans. Once that's done, steep them with some boiled whilk milk and a good amount of thalassa seeds."
―Torro Sbazzle on how to make a beverage using denta beans. — 20?cb=20250116042720 ▶️ (file info)[3]

Denta beans were a food edible by humans. They were used as a major ingredient in denta bean buns on the planet Naboo[2] and in a beverage that was popular on[1] the planet[4] Coruscant.[1]

In 232 BBY,[5] the crew of the transport starship Vessel transported crates of denta beans to Coruscant. There were so many crates that the ship's navigator, Geode, had trouble navigating the ship's corridors.[6] In 32 BBY,[7] the kitchen staff of the Theed Royal Palace of Naboo utilized denta beans to bake a batch of denta bean buns.[2] In 3 ABY,[8] Torro Sbazzle, Executive Chef of[1] the tibanna gas mining colony[4] Cloud City, and her sous-chef, Gersolik, used denta beans to prepare a beverage that was to be served to the Imperial Sith Lord Darth Vader.[1]

Behind the scenes

"I had Panaka eating red bean buns in the first draft, and Story Group was all 'can you make it more Star Wars–y?' and so I looked up a bunch of beans on the Wook, and the FIRST bean I found was a PERSON and the second bean was the dentabean, [sic] which I used… but only after reading the article like 14 times to make sure it wasn't related to toothbrushing."
―E. K. Johnston[9]
Denta beans, as they appeared in the Star Wars Legends video game Star Wars Galaxies

Denta beans, as they appeared in the Star Wars Legends video game Star Wars Galaxies

Denta beans were first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in the 2020 young-adult novel Queen's Peril by E. K. Johnston as the second installment of Star Wars: Queen's Series.[2] According to Johnston, the first draft of the novel featured Captain Quarsh Panaka eating red bean buns instead of denta bean buns. However, the Lucasfilm Story Group asked if Johnston could make the meal "more Star Wars-y," leading her to use Wookieepedia,[9] the free-to-edit, unofficial online Star Wars encyclopedia,[10] to search for beans unique to the franchise.[9]

In the Star Wars Legends continuity, denta beans were first mentioned in the "Galaxywide NewsNets" section of the third issue of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, published in August 1994.[11] The beans made their first full appearance in Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided,[12] a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Sony Online Entertainment.[13]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "But What Does He Eat?" — From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Queen's Peril
  3. ↑ From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back audiobook
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: Into the Dark, including the mention of denta beans, to 232 BBY.
  6. ↑ The High Republic: Into the Dark
  7. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Queen's Peril to 32 BBY.
  8. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back to 3 ABY. As "But What Does He Eat?" takes place during those events, it must also take place in 3 ABY.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Tumblr-Logo Words Words Words — Reply on 2020-06-14 to untitled post on Tumblr: "I had Panaka eating red bean buns in the first draft, and Story Group was all "can you make it more Star Wars-y?" and so I looked up a bunch of beans on the Wook, and the FIRST bean I found was a PERSON and the second bean was the dentabean, which I used…but only after reading the article like 14 times to make sure it wasn't related to toothbrushing." (backup link)
  10. ↑ Wiki-shrinkable Wookieepedia on Wookieepedia
  11. ↑ SWAJsmall "Galaxywide NewsNets" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
  12. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Item: "Denta Beans"
  13. ↑ LucasArtsIcon LucasArts Announces Star Wars Galaxies™: An Empire Divided™ Will Release June 26, 2003 on LucasArts's official website (original site is defunct)

External links

  • Tumblr-Logo Words Words Words — Reply on 2020-06-14 to untitled post on Tumblr: "I had Panaka eating red bean buns in the first draft, and Story Group was all "can you make it more Star Wars-y?" and so I looked up a bunch of beans on the Wook, and the FIRST bean I found was a PERSON and the second bean was the dentabean, which I used…but only after reading the article like 14 times to make sure it wasn't related to toothbrushing." (backup link)