Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9344215)

My wife thinks I'm mad, she dollops it on just about everything! But she doesn't like onions so who's the wierd one there?

Originally Posted by Kaffy Mintcake (Post 9344221)

Both! :) How can she not like onions? The building blocks of so many meals!

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 9344143)

I like them boiled in a saucepan...until the sauce gets thicker. :wub:

Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 9344023)

Heinz beans over a crispy buttery jacket potato.

Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 9344023)

Cooling beans go stodgy and are only suitable for being mopped up with bread & butter.

Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 9344023)

Cold beans straight from the can are for students and national emergencies

Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 9344023)

It has to be Heinz beans but they are hard to come by here and cost a fortune. Baked beans here tend too be too sweet.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9344106)

Yes. Also my granny used to put them in a normal beef mince pie too when she'd bake them. Very nice indeed.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 9344195)

Why would you keep a tin of beans in the fridge?

Originally Posted by Ash UK/US (Post 9344270)

My hubby thinks I am nuts for cooking in a saucepan, he microwaves just about everything.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 9344938)

It leaves the sauce too watery IMO. Hubby doesn't mind so I nuke his. :D

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9345003)

I'm with you - beans in the microwave are crap. They don't heat evenly and if you're planning on having mash, the more watery sauce doesn't create the desired tastegasm that is the whole point of mixing the two :)

The more I think of it though, the more I realise it was HP beans that had the better sauce. Am I going mental, or was the that case?

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 9345011)

You're going mental...there's no other brand that comes anywhere close to Heinz IMO. ;):D

Originally Posted by Kaffy Mintcake (Post 9341888)

Okay, I need the Brits to weigh in!

Long story short, on April 29th (when the royal wedding took place), we had my parents in to visit and decided to wake up early, cook a fry-up and enjoy the festivities.

Our breakfast included coffee (sorry, guys), eggs, Irish bangers, tomato, toast and Heinz beans.

At one point we had a bit of a blow-out when I was encouraging my mother to try the beans with her breakfast and my father exclaimed that they were the most vile thing ever! (Apparently he has bad childhood memories of being forced to eat something similar. My husband and I like them!)

He works at a visitor's center in a tourist town in the US and has since asked each British tourist he's met their opinion of Heinz beans. Apparently they have ALL agreed with him that they are terrible, and that our barbecued variety is infinitely better.

I find that hard to believe, or I'm just plain stubborn.

So ... what do you think? Are they vile? Yummy? Couldn't you care less?

Cheers,
Kaffy

Originally Posted by Ash UK/US (Post 9344274)

Have you tried the Branston Brand beans? They are a UK import too and very close in taste to Heinz, my sister in the UK prefers them to Heinz.