Food question #1 - for Americans

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If u can find these, they are excellent with the additional BBQ sauce, couple of cut hot dogs, salt an pepper to taste
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ONLY seen them in america
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phuketrichard wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:25 pm If u can find these, they are excellent with the additional BBQ sauce, couple of cut hot dogs, salt an pepper to taste
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ONLY seen them in america
You had to bring those up. When we first moved to America I bought these thinking they were "proper" baked beans..Giant and Food Lion supermarkets.

Takes more than a bit of salt and pepper to make these go with sausage, bacon, mushrooms and eggs.

Never took to them.
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No.
I think we’ve established that non Brits no nothing about beans.

Richard just knows nuffink. Period. (See. An Americanism. Funny for us)
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StroppyChops wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:03 pm Okay, so I thought I should do some research when I spotted this fine product on the shelf at One&One. It's labeled Pork and Beans, right? In tomato sauce, yeah?

So I thought to myself, I should expect to find pork, beans, and tomato sauce in that fine product. I'll take that home, and do me some research.

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To be fair to the manufacturer, I did get an instant hit of nostalgia when I went to open this commodity. Wasn't a good hit, though... had to go looking for a can opener. I know, I know, third world country.

On opening the can, I found myself looking at a pool of tinged water, despite having shaken the product prior to opening it. Thinking that didn't bode well, I tore up some bread, suspecting I knew what was about to occur.

I upended the contents of the can on my bread to find literally half of the can was watery pink muck.

The bottom half of the can was mashed beans. I hopefully imagined the pork was in with the beans. There was no pork in the beans, or indeed in the can at all. The ingredients list was printed in a colour that almost exactly matched the background colour, such that a forensics expert with Hollywood magic-pixel-enhancing technology couldn't get data from it. I suspect it said "beans, water, pink food colouring."

I scooped out the beans, onto my bread, ending up with bean paste riding high on shredded bread that had turned into pink slurry after drinking up the pink muck.

Knowing you'd all want to know how it tasted I took one for the team, stirred it together, and searched for the pork that wasn't there. Maybe it was once there, but it wasn't today.

It tasted much like a can of nasty plain-label beans (but not as nice) minus the excess sugar and salt, and the texture was similar to either pasty baby crap or Mexican re-fried beans.

On a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst shite you can imagine being a food product, and ten being the finest dining experience in your life, I rate this a Not Good.
Well holy shit batman. You didn't even heat it in a pan first? Then on bread? Puke! What planet are you from?

Lard is technically pork. That's more likely what they meant. I'm not shitting you when I scanned the aisle yesterday, too many makes and models to consider. Not all are the same. Now, I am no connoisseur and I don't intend to ever acquire that qualification, nope, you're on your own there bro. I will pray your Mrs. Stroppy comes home soon. #hopeless

Meantime, whats wrong with borbor and some loklak? I'm worried for you, take care of yourself.
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RickyBobby wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:53 pm Well holy shit batman. You didn't even heat it in a pan first?
You're supposed to heat it? All other food in Cambodia is served at room temperature...
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As long as there are helpless men who refuse to know how to cook, there will be beans in a can.
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RickyBobby wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:53 pm
Give the guy a break, he is an Antipodean.

If you can't cook it on a Barbie, it's not worth eating.
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The label on a can of Van De Kamp's pork and beans should legally have an asterisk (*) that says "artificial pork-like flavoring chemical substances added" in the ingredients list under "sugar" and "pink food coloring #783". You could get 60 Minutes to investigate for any traces of actual pork in a can and still not find any.
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canned beans that are eaten right out of the can are what neanderthal teens might eat..
what you really want are what people call baked beans..
a true cook would buy dried beans and soak them overnight...or take the canned beans and strain them.
typically, you would add bacon, onion, ketchup, brown sugar, salt, pepper and bake them for about an hour.
they were a side dish for a bbq...along with potato salad and deviled eggs...
people in the Americas know a hell of lot about beans.
navy beans with hamhocks ..
pinto beans..
butter beans..
frijoles negros..
anytime you are starting a culinary discussion using something out of a can you are already a hack...
I saw a full English breakfast for the first time in Zambia at Shiwa Ngandu...it was pretty fucking great..
but, I was not into the beans ...the rest was great...

working with chocolate is fun..
I spent a lot of time using great chocolate from Europe..
I grew up eating Hershey bars... obviously, they do not compare..
I recently wanted some chocolate chunk cookies and bought a block from Vietnam...it was pretty good ..for the price for a kilo.... I had seen 2kg blocks in sihanoukville but never tried it..
I figured dropping $6.20 for a kg of Vietnam chocolate was worth the risk...
my alternative was to spend about $12 on excellent Euro bars to barely make the recipe...
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TOG wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2019 10:04 pm American baked beans are like Hershey chocolate.....inedible.

One of the main demands from our neighbours in VA was for Heinz baked beans and Cadbury's chocolate.

Much as I liked a country breakfast, friends and neighbours always wanted us to cook them a full English (with Heinz baked beans).

American chocolate tastes so funny because of the use of less than fresh milk. The process results in butyric acid being created which is the reason for the sickly vomit taste.

And in fairness, there is nothing like the hickory smoked baby back ribs sold at the Cork Street Tavern in Winchester.
I should not be suprised at a brexiteer getting his facts wrong and claiming something as british when it isnt :-)
"Heinz Beanz were launched in 1901 as "Heinz Baked Beans" and were produced in the United States until 1928. In 1901, Heinz Baked Beans were first sold at the Fortnum & Mason department store in London.[1] After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the company opened its first UK factory in Peckham, " Straight from wikipedia. :stir:
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