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Default Heinz English Style Baked Beans... don't buy them!!

"Julie Bove" > wrote in
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> "I'm back." > wrote in message
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>> http://tinyurl.com/3j6l8pw
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>>
>> My breakfast nowadays is 2 tablespoons of baked beans with a fried egg,
>> sunny
>> side up, on top, the egg cut up and mixed in with the baked beans.
>>
>> I opened a can of the 'English Style' beans (above) this morning, and
>> had them with my egg.
>>
>> They would have to be the most insipid, lack lustre, flavourless baked
>> beans
>> I have ever had the misfortune to eat.
>>
>> Luckily the egg yolk added some flavour and body to the baked beans.
>>
>>
>> The rest of the tin will be going into the pooches dinner bowl tonight.
>> I'm
>> sure she'll enjoy them mixed in with her doggie biscuits, crispy pork
>> rind,
>> and leftover potato gnocci.

>
> Hmmm... I just bought a couple of cans of Heniz beans to take with us
> to the dance convention. I don't know if they are considered to be
> baked beans or not. I was thinking more along the lines of American
> Pork and Beans. But I could be wrong.



http://tinyurl.com/3j6l8pw

The list of beans available is on that webpage.


Watties (my favourite for taste) does a Boston Baked Beans, but I haven't
seen them on the shelf as yet.

http://www.watties.co.nz/Our-Product...paghetti/Beans




> I know I have had them before but
> not for many years. We may or may not be eating them then. Now that I
> think about it, stuffing daughter full of beans and sending her off to
> dance may not work out so well. Hehehe.
>
> What I would probably do with them if they indeed were not good would be
> to drain off most of the sauce or maybe even give them a quick rinse and
> add them to a vegetable soup.
>
>
>



The beans are rather soft, and you could probably add the sauce and beans
to the soup to give it a bit more body/flavour.




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