Bean-feast

[2] An alternative derivation refers the name to the eating of a dish of beans and bacon, and seems to trace to 1725, when Daniel Day of Wapping, London began to entertain friends near his estate at Fairlop in Essex on the first Friday in July.

A bean goose is a migratory bird, arriving in UK in autumn and going northwards in April.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the beanfeast often took the form of a trip to some beauty spot, where the meal was provided.

It is derived from the Twelfth Night feast, at which a king cake or pie with a special object or "favour" buried in it was a great feature.

The subject was often painted by Flemish Baroque and Dutch Golden Age painters, especially Jacob Jordaens and Jan Steen.