Is eating beans from a can a UK thing? my wife’s parents are from the UK, beans straight from the can is her guilty pleasure, her brother’s too. What the heck?
You don't need to heat them Though if you want to all you need is to put it on the hob for a few mins (open obviously, or just you know pour it into a pan) Cold beans can be pretty tasty sometimes though
During the hot summer of 92, on a camping trip, we left tins of beans out in direct sunlight for an hour or so and ate them straight from the tin. I’ve never repeated it as I like my beans cooked until all the tomato flavour has all but disappeared, but it was a treat at the time because we were very poor. Beans that one may get in a roadside cafe, where the pan has been kept hot all day are the best beans, all mushy and indistinct. Fresh, barely cooked beans are generally too tomatoey for me. Cold beans from the tin are a complete no for me.
" Beans, beans are good for your heart The more you eat, the more you fart The more you fart, the better you feel So let's have beans with every meal."
Cold beans? YUK! I suspect it is more of a student thing than a general UK thing. The traditional British thing is to have them on toast.
It's a good source for any urgently needed vitamins and minerals. The body knows best, as they say. Well, let me be the first to congratulate you both....! Have you decided what colour to paint the new extra bedroom yet..., or maybe that's too early....? Do you have any names in mind..., for the new arrival....? ;-p
Lol, no new arrivals for us, we’re already into grandkids. She’s liked the stupid cold things since she was a kid.
I should hope no one is eating baked beans with rice... Most commonly they’re found on toast, or with breakfasts (sausages, bacon, mushrooms, black pudding, hash browns, a side of toast and beans etc) My personal favourite ‘beans dish’ is chips (or I suppose you’d call them fries) with a gammon(really thick bacon) steak and some cheesy beans, delicious.
Well I eat baked beans with rice. Tastes so good. I do eat beans with toast sometimes as well and they are good. But eating beans from the can is odd but hey if it tastes good for some, that's all that matters
My dad was a bus driver in the 80's and during the summer holidays i used to spend a lot of time on the bus.... I think the only meal they sold in the staff canteen at Marlborough St bus station was sausage, beans and chips.... Brown sauce, bread and butter.... Or at least, that's how I fondly remember it....
no way to cold beans straight from the tin, not even when I've been camping on the moors during various expeditions or as a student at uni. Now I've seen people using the tin and cooking them on a campfire (make sure the lid is pierced though) and then eating them that way. Beans are great with warm buttery toast and a cuppa or as others have said with bacon, egg, sausage etc for breakfast (or sometimes for dinner/tea). Beans, sausage, bacon, egg, mushrooms etc are the staple diet of truck drivers.
The closest I’ve ever been to beans and rice is when I have to substitute kidney beans with baked beans in a chilli, don’t think I could bring myself to eat just rice and baked beans though.
Can you imagine there was once a time when the only beans you could buy were Heinz.... I can vaguely remember the uproar when Crosse and Blackwell entered the scene.... Now I just get the aldi 'corale' ones.... If I don't have at least 2 tins in the cupboard the anxiety levels creep up...
What, dfo you mean verus those snap pots, or do you mean eaten from the tin? If it's the former, I have no preferance. If the latter, what kind of degenerate would do such a thing? I jest, of course. I am neither a cowboy, nor have I incurred the wrath of the gas board. ***Heinz crew checking in***
Why would you do such a thing? The only time I’ve bought beans that weren’t Heinz is in those all day breakfasts with the mini versions of real food (sausage of sorts, flaccid bacon, a slither of boiled egg, one embarrassed button mushroom etc.) mixed in with the beans, and I would never suggest you ever inflict that on anyone other than yourself.
Student life is hard okay Tbh I've only ever done it with the last spoonful out a can as I'm heating them up
Cold beans out the tin or warmed up are both fine for me. A couple of years ago I was on an IT project at Heinz and went on the factory tour. Pretty amazing The beans come from Canada, the tomatoes from the US.....it all gets shipped here and we eat them!!! They also put them in the tins raw and they cook them in a massive chimney type affair. They go in raw at the bottom sealed in the tin and come out at the top cooked with the bacteria all heated out of them. Labels then get stuck on and away you go!
This is similar to rice pudding.... The tins are only about a quarter full before they go into the industrial oven....