Navy or pinto beans slow-baked with smoked brisket trimmings, KC BBQ sauce, mustard, brown sugar and molasses until the top crusts and the centre stays saucy. The canonical side dish on every KC barbecue plate.

KC barbecue beans have been a side-dish staple since the 1920s, with beans cooked in the drip pan under the smoking meat to catch the rendered fat. The brisket-trim addition is the city's signature, originally invented to use up burnt-end scraps. Gates Bar-B-Q and Joe's KC run the canonical city versions.

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