Yup, lots of pinto beans in Texas. Except on New Years Day when they eat blackeye peas for good luck. Not sure about that one (I don't care for them, and grew up around Seattle, so I pass on that one). I like pintos okay, when someone else fixed them, but I grew up with red kidney beans and small white beans. I cook kidney beans most of the time.

My mom used to make a pot of baked (small white) beans on the same day she baked bread, to get the most use of the oven, I suppose. She sent me her recipe, and it was something like 9 cups of beans. A HUGE number of beans, and I called her and asked. She said that was correct, so I put all of the ingedients into a huge soup pot. It wasn't enough room as they expanded, so I moved it over into another pot also. And the sauce wasn't enough, so I made more and added it, by then sure of what the problem was. I called again and it turned out she forgot over time (she hadn't made them in years) that it was COOKED measure, not dry measure.