Dear WW: by a circuitous process of association, I went from haricot to remembering reading Im Westen Nichts Neues many years ago about the conditions in the German Army barracks for recruits. Beans have a well known "drawback".
For which one of the recruits gave the motto: "Jedes Bõhnchen gibt sein Tõnchen." For which the English parallel is "Every little bean must be heard as well as seen."
And the management of recruits was typified by the fiendish sergeant who cured bedwetters by compelling them to sleep in same triple tiered wire mesh bunks, in rotation from top to middle to bottom.