You remind me of my first try at bean soup..had navy beans and some others...so i just thought if I put them all together I’d have an awesome colorful soup....some of the beans were black and the color came off so it looked worse than mud! ..and the taste was ugly as sin!
I remember the clear tubes of 7-bean soup, tightly packed so the types were in color and texture contrasting layers, with the spices at the bottom, so appetizing.
I bought a grocery store package of dried mixed beans for soup once since it was cheaper to get bean seeds for the garden than buying them in separate little packages in the garden department. After picking out a few for the garden, I cooked up the rest. Same thing happened - mud and nasty tasting. The included spices were even worse. Can’t believe the grocery store could sell much of this.