Saturday 29 November 2014

British baked beans


Apparently it was Heinz that started the whole baked beans thing, but in wartime Britain, with the rationing, the bacon got left out, and the sauce got thinned, until the two different continents had two different products... So here, in the USA, it is all about molasses, and hickory smoked bacon bits, and cajun spices (no, really), while in Britain, it is essentially beans in a tomato sauce.
We found out early on that the local baked beans don't fill that baked beans shaped hole, and just stopped eating baked beans. But hubby had a plan, and the internet is a wonderful place, and last night we had British style baked beans. I'm pretty sure that in Australia I would have poo pooed the whole thing, but here, now, it is lovely, and I enjoyed every mouthful.

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