It must be! Our families are from New England - as we still are (drat!)
'Bean Suppers' are still big in rural areas and liberal 'look how quaint we look' areas :>) 
One of my best friends’ family did the franks and beans and brownbread—and homemade coleslaw!—every Saturday night and I loved it. Always understood it to be an especially New England thing, it was a very common church dinner.
But there you go, cabbage together with weekly franks and beans!
It must be! Our families are from New England - as we still are (drat!)
'Bean Suppers' are still big in rural areas and liberal 'look how quaint we look' areas :>)