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Baked Beans Favorite Dishes Singular Correct Foods Diseases

Front correct?

Baked beans are one of my favorite dishes.
Back No. Some foods, like some diseases (he.g. measles, mumps), or branches of knowledge (e.g. physics) end in -s but are really singular

also note the 'one' which suggests singular
Baked beans is one of my favorite dishes.

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