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Sally Oct 12th 2007 5:08 pm

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by Tracym (Post 5418452)
No wonder the Brits like THEIR baked beans - if the pot is in the beans as well as the beans are in the pot!

We have Jamaica Ginger Cake too!

Sally Oct 12th 2007 5:09 pm

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by Patrick Hasler (Post 5418469)
Oy ! .............. Try Big Lots .... We went to one a few weeks ago and they had some unknown make of vegitarian beans ..... they were better than Hienz :)

Do you have to join to shop there?

Sally Oct 12th 2007 5:09 pm

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by tonrob (Post 5418648)
I'll stick my neck out here and say that Heinz beans are shite. Horrible sickly sweet aftertaste. I always preferred HP beans - or Cross & Blackwell - hell, even Sainsburys for that matter - but good luck finding those over here... :( still - this is what makes trips home worth waiting for!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Sally Oct 12th 2007 5:10 pm

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5419490)
With a side of anything in particular? It's part of breakfast, right?

Still seems odd - but maybe I'll have to try it sometime.

*Bangs head on table*

SueW123 Oct 13th 2007 12:59 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 
You can get Heinz baked beans in Walmart, their labelled under vegetarian beans but have the heinz label on them. There exactly the same as the english version and cost 74c a tin.

Patrick Hasler Oct 13th 2007 1:00 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5419602)
Do you have to join to shop there?

No ..... We just walk in and shop .... loads of goodies ;)

Bob Oct 13th 2007 1:25 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5419229)
Help me understand - beans on toast? As in ... ladeled on toast? It doesn't sound appealing - but maybe that's simply because I haven't tried it!

It's breakfast, a snake, or student food :D

add cheese on top, chili sauce, whatever...but good crusty bread helps make it nice...and works well with a fry up on the side to get your heart complaining :D

Bob Oct 13th 2007 1:27 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5419602)
Do you have to join to shop there?

Big Lots, like Renys, Mardens etc...it's a poor man shop, they sell over stocked, slightly damaged or returned goods.....horrid tv adverts, but it's a great store to poke around in as you do get some great bargains and surprisingly a good amount of brit food, beans, crackers and other stuff.

Bob Oct 13th 2007 1:28 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by SueW123 (Post 5420335)
You can get Heinz baked beans in Walmart, their labelled under vegetarian beans but have the heinz label on them. There exactly the same as the english version and cost 74c a tin.

funny thing is, the import is the same price around here :lol:

snowbunny Oct 13th 2007 1:33 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 5419597)
What's the HP Sauce travesty?

I believe it's the fact that HP sauce is no longer made in the UK and is made in Cloggieland instead. :p

Kathy -- the Brits eat everything on toast.... yeah, it's just beans ladled onto toast. Cheese on toast (an open-faced grilled cheese if you will) is popular as is marmite, Branston pickle.... although that leads me to ask: if you don't have square bread (eg a decent loaf is usually NOT square) how do you toast it? You'd either need a less wimpy toaster than we usually have in an American kitchen, or you'd toast it in the oven, I suppose, or over a gas burner.

franc11s Oct 13th 2007 2:19 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 
In Atlanta, there's about 5 places that sell Heinz Baked beans. My local Indian shop here sells me a case of 24 cans for about $25...

AS a backup, publix sell heinz Vegetarian beans. Same as the brit ones except over cooked !!

AdobePinon Oct 13th 2007 4:13 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by snowbunny (Post 5420403)
although that leads me to ask: if you don't have square bread (eg a decent loaf is usually NOT square) how do you toast it? You'd either need a less wimpy toaster than we usually have in an American kitchen, or you'd toast it in the oven, I suppose, or over a gas burner.

You wait until Costco has giant toasters in stock. Although I suspect that most people here aren't getting decent bread. And I maintain that there is no such thing as decent white sliced bread. :p

BritGuyTN Oct 13th 2007 4:38 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by snowbunny (Post 5420403)
I believe it's the fact that HP sauce is no longer made in the UK and is made in Cloggieland instead. :p

Kathy -- the Brits eat everything on toast.... yeah, it's just beans ladled onto toast. Cheese on toast (an open-faced grilled cheese if you will) is popular as is marmite, Branston pickle.... although that leads me to ask: if you don't have square bread (eg a decent loaf is usually NOT square) how do you toast it? You'd either need a less wimpy toaster than we usually have in an American kitchen, or you'd toast it in the oven, I suppose, or over a gas burner.

or under a grill as we call them in england.

essentially the same as broiling it

hmmm, cheese o toast

Rushman Oct 13th 2007 4:52 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by KJ2007 (Post 5419229)
Help me understand - beans on toast? As in ... ladeled on toast? It doesn't sound appealing - but maybe that's simply because I haven't tried it!


Leslie Oct 13th 2007 4:53 am

Re: help! cant find baked beans
 

Originally Posted by snowbunny (Post 5420403)
I believe it's the fact that HP sauce is no longer made in the UK and is made in Cloggieland instead. :p

Kathy -- the Brits eat everything on toast.... yeah, it's just beans ladled onto toast. Cheese on toast (an open-faced grilled cheese if you will) is popular as is marmite, Branston pickle.... although that leads me to ask: if you don't have square bread (eg a decent loaf is usually NOT square) how do you toast it? You'd either need a less wimpy toaster than we usually have in an American kitchen, or you'd toast it in the oven, I suppose, or over a gas burner.

Lots of bagel toasters and ones that sort of clamp onto the fatter pieces. I think I know what I mean .... Anyway, just upgrade when you buy a new one (send the crappy one with one of your kids when they go to college). Anyway, I can toast anything in my toaster.


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