help! cant find baked beans
Oct 13th 2007, 5:09 am
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
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!
still - this is what makes trips home worth waiting for!
Oct 13th 2007, 12:59 pm
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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.
Oct 13th 2007, 1:25 pm
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
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
Oct 13th 2007, 1:27 pm
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
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.
Oct 13th 2007, 1:33 pm
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
I believe it's the fact that HP sauce is no longer made in the UK and is made in Cloggieland instead. 
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.
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.
Oct 13th 2007, 2:19 pm
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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 !!
AS a backup, publix sell heinz Vegetarian beans. Same as the brit ones except over cooked !!
Oct 13th 2007, 4:13 pm
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
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.
Oct 13th 2007, 4:38 pm
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
I believe it's the fact that HP sauce is no longer made in the UK and is made in Cloggieland instead.
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.
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.
essentially the same as broiling it
hmmm, cheese o toast
Oct 13th 2007, 4:53 pm
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Re: help! cant find baked beans
I believe it's the fact that HP sauce is no longer made in the UK and is made in Cloggieland instead.
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.
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.