the three of them would eat the beans that night ( rena raving about her own cooking all the while , crazy butch bowers grunting and mopping up bean juice with a piece of sonny boy bread or simply telling her to shut up if there was a ballgame on the radio , henry just eating , staring out the window , thinking his own thoughts it was over a plate of sunday-night beans that he had conceived the idea of poisoning mike hanlon 's dog mr chips ) , and butch would reheat a mess of them the next night .