At the time, the Brits were worried about having enough for everybody to eat: they were a net food importer. But they did some analysis, and realized that if everybody just ate beans, there’d be enough local food to keep everybody alive. Albeit (I’m not making this up), with some intestinal discomfort.
There are Wylwood products with “baked beans” on the label; that isn’t one of them.
Maybe the confusion here is some regions referring to any canned beans product in sauce as baked beans, even if the manufacturer doesn’t.
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And as you can see
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PS: (Hideous anachronism warning) - this has nothing whatever to do with the thread, but I just have to share this. I confess, I used a 1987 Roget’s thesaurus to clean that up. Specifically, the synonyms of Probity, which include (quoting): “…truepenny, brick, trump, true Briton, white man…”. Sheesh.
I was in a beans on toast mood for lunch today so I picked up those Heinz vegetarian beans. Somehow, I never noticed them before. You can tell they were made for the American market as they are sweeter than the UK/Canada/etc beans. I’ll need to hit up one of the groceries with a good international aisle and get some of the UK cans.
But I did enjoy my beans on toast.
This really needs to make its way into an advertisement at some point. I’d buy it.
Yes, the sauce is sweeter and thicker than the sauce for the UK beans. But when I was served beans in the UK they tasted familiar.
This topic made me realize that while I eat a lot of beans I never eat baked beans, it’s always re-fried beans.
If you like baked beans and you ever get a chance, try making baked beans from scratch. It’s like the difference between homemade chili and canned chili.
To me, they’re just an entirely different food stuff. Tinned baked beans are for a wet Wednesday lunchtime when you want something quick and comforting on toast. Home made are for when you’re feeling all cheffy and have specially salted some icelandic cod as an accompaniment.
Always store the cans upside down to prevent stuff sticking to the bottom.
nadiya eats on netfilx goes to the heinz factory in england. Dont remember which episode but it was entertaining as she made falafel or something with the beans.
B&M Baked Beans in the US had a commercial showing a man chowing down on Campbell’s beans with the announcer saying, “This is . 42 years old and he’s never had a baked bean.” The man gave a “What the – ?” look and the announcer went on, “Those are steamed beans. Do you see the word ‘baked’ anywhere on the label?”
Campbell made steamed beans in tomato sauce, but to get real baked beans you got B&M and Grandma Brown’s. Bush’s came over the past decade, so it’s hard to find the other two.
Heinz baked beans in the UK are suitable for vegetarians and vegans; no pork.
I eat Heinz stuff because that’s what the supermarket sells. They have their own brand baked beans but the sauce is quite watery and Heinz sauce is thicker.
Heinz baked beans on toast for lunch for me today - mainly because I haven’t been shopping and I’m pushed for time, so it’s the easiest, quickest warm lunch I can whip up when the cupboard is bare. Which I imagine is a fairly typical usage for many people.
So are the Heinz vegetarian beans in my cupboard in the US.
Honestly, I don’t know why the American “pork and beans” companies bother with the homeopathic quantities of pork they include. Leave them out, and they’d expand their market to vegetarians and those who keep kosher or halal. And the swinivores probably wouldn’t even notice the difference.
As a devoted swinivore, I fer sure would notice the difference.
Like marriage, vegetarianism is EVIL! 
It’s been in court in the USA. “Pork and Beans” is an American traditional name for an American traditional food, containing, by continuous ethnic tradition, a homeopathic quantity of pork.
Homeopathic? What’s homeopathic about pork? Are we using a different definition here?