“Too many” kinda sounds right to my ear because beans is plural, but the second logically seems right because its served by volume and is not ‘countable’ as ordinary (non-destroyed) beans might be.

  • SkaraBrae@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It depends on whether you’re referring to individual refried beans or the dish ‘refried beans’ as a whole.

    If it’s the former, it would be ‘too many’ (individual) refried beans.

    If it is the latter, it would be ‘too much’ (of) refried beans… Unless you had multiple servings, in which case it would be ‘too many’ (servings of) refried beans.

    That is my opinion: as such it is subject to change should further information come to light.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      you just discovered why we say ‘traffic’ and not ‘there were many trafficks on my way in this morning’.

      (It’s also why ‘experiences’ and ‘emails’ is very often wrong if we followed established rules like in the former instead of gleefully making up the very exceptions we then curse, like in the latter case.)