View Poll Results: What do YOU think of Heinz Beans?
Heinz Beans are wonderful!
44
62.86%
Heinz Beans - blah! I'd rather eat vomit.
8
11.43%
Heinz Beans - could take them or leave them
18
25.71%
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Heinz Beans!
May 4th 2011 | 3:59 pm
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May 4th 2011 | 4:03 pm
#92
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Re: Heinz Beans!
May 4th 2011 | 4:56 pm
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Re: Heinz Beans!
Yum!
Again yum!
LOL good point
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.
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.
May 4th 2011 | 5:23 pm
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Re: Heinz Beans!
I'll only but Heinz beans in NZ even though they are more expensive than Watties BB (same company but add more sugar to that brand 
). The Kiwis are nuts though. Add loads of sugar & salt to all their processed foods. Add gelatine to sour cream 
.
Thank god they make decent wine or I'd be stuffed!
). The Kiwis are nuts though. Add loads of sugar & salt to all their processed foods. Add gelatine to sour cream .Thank god they make decent wine or I'd be stuffed!
May 4th 2011 | 11:42 pm
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Re: Heinz Beans!
I remember back home they brought out a baked bean pizza!!! Think it was possible Heinz along with McCain, can't remember, but damn good. I have tried making one myself and it was absolutely delicious. I have also made a bean and cheese toastie, delicious, just like beans on toast with cheese on top, only not as messy
May 5th 2011 | 1:39 am
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Re: Heinz Beans!
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?
May 5th 2011 | 1:44 am
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Re: Heinz Beans!
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?
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?
May 5th 2011 | 1:55 am
#102
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May 5th 2011 | 2:17 am
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Re: Heinz Beans!
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
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
May 5th 2011 | 2:24 am
#104
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Re: Heinz Beans!
To give the US beans their due, I do quite like the Boston style ones, in the dark sauce, or the homestyle ones that SWMBO usually gets for barbies and the like.
Mix in a load of HP and it takes the edge off the sweetness. Doesn't go with mash at all though!
Mix in a load of HP and it takes the edge off the sweetness. Doesn't go with mash at all though!
May 5th 2011 | 2:32 am
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