~ ~ I wonder just how many tins of baked beans (Heinz or other brands) are eaten in households throughout the world on a daily basis? Hazarding a guess, I’d say it must run into the millions.
And did you ever meet anyone who DOESN’T like baked beans? I’ve been racking my ... Read review
(+) Cheapest of the high-end of the market brand beans, Highest bean and tomato content on the market, (-) None really. Can get cheaper beans but they are in my view of inferior quality and content.
Advantages: Cheap, tasty, easy to prepare. TASTY, TASTY, TASTY, etc Disadvantages: Where ere yi be, let yir wind gang free
~ ~ I wonder just how many tins of baked beans (Heinz or other brands) are eaten in households throughout the world on a daily basis? Hazarding a guess, I’d say it must run into the millions.
And did you ever meet anyone who DOESN’T like baked beans? I’ve been racking my brain all day, and I can’t come up with anybody of my personal acquaintance!
They are included in the staple diet of nearly everyone, and I ... ...there will be at least a couple of tins nestling in there.
I know that I’ve just finished off a small tin for my lunch. All in the course of my research for this opinion, you understand. Not that I need any excuse.
~ ~ I’ve always eaten baked beans, for as far back as my memory goes, and will continue to do so for as long as I live. I simply love them.
I’ll take them anyway I can get them. On toast. ... more
~ ~ I wonder just how many tins of baked beans (Heinz or other brands) are eaten in households throughout the world on a daily basis? Hazarding a guess, I’d say it must run into the millions. And did you ever meet anyone who DOESN’T like baked beans? I’ve been racking my brain all day, and I can’t come up with anybody of my personal acquaintance! They are included in the staple diet of nearly everyone, and I bet if you went to your kitchen press right now, there will be at least a couple of tins nestling in there. I know that I’ve just finished off a small tin for my lunch. All in the course of my research for this opinion, you understand. Not that I need any excuse.
~ ~ I’ve always eaten baked beans, for as far back as my memory goes, and will continue to do so for as long as I live. I simply love them. I’ll take them anyway I can get them. On toast. In baked potatoes. As a vegetable with my main meal. To flavour chips and potatoes. With cheese, sausages, rashers, (that’s Irish for bacon!) chops, and steaks. In fact, any way I can get them or are served them is OK by the “mad cabbie”. My own personal favourite is baked beans on toast, but I do have a little peccadillo here, as I actually prefer them cold from the tin, rather than heated. And if you want to throw a fried egg and a dollop of cheddar cheese on the top, then I’m in seventh heaven.
~ ~ They even came up in conversation the night I first met my now wife when she was on a touring holiday of my native Scotland with a friend of hers. “How are you enjoying Scotland?”, I asked her. “Do you Scots eat bloody baked beans with every meal?”, she replied. “Pardon????” , I replied, quickly checking that I hadn’t been farting uncontrollably. “Well, I’ve been here for a week now, and every Bed and Breakfast we’ve stayed in so far has served up baked beans with the breakfast fry up!” Seemingly she found this unusual for some strange reason, although some twenty odd years later I have long since made her a convert to the joys of a few beans with the brekky.
~ ~ So why are they so popular with so many people? Kind of a silly question, to be honest, with a very obvious answer. They just simply taste delicious, are cheap and inexpensive to buy, are quick and easy to prepare, can be used in so many different ways and as a compliment to so many different foods, and our kids adore them with a passion.
~ ~ What are they made out of? Well, again it’s fairly obvious. They’re haricot beans in a tomato sauce. I’m sitting looking at an (empty) tin right now, and here’s what it says on the side. Beans, water, tomatoes, sugar, salt, food starch, seasoning, vinegar, and tomato flavour. They are described as having no artificial colours or flavouring, and no preservatives, and as being a rich source of fibre. (that keeps your bowels regular!!) Who will ever forget the totally hilarious scene from director Mel Brooks western comedy, “Blazing Saddles”, where the assembled cowboys join in a communal “fart-in” round the camp fire after digesting a fibre rich meal of the old beanies.
~ ~ They come in tins, and in all sorts of different sizes, from small, to medium, large, and catering pack. Likewise, the prices vary from place to place and from brand to brand, (but are universally cheap, from about 10p upwards) but Heinz still seem to manage to retain their position as the market leader in this sector. I have to say that this is probably because they taste just that little bit better than some of the cheaper and “supermarket” own brands, but a lot of it is probably down more to good advertising on their part than any other reason. I know that I will usually pick up a tin of Heinz Beans as my first preference, without even thinking about it, but having said that, I also wouldn’t be too perturbed or upset if I had to make do with Bachelors or some other brand. At the end of the day, baked beans are baked beans, whoever happens to make them.
~ ~ One last important point in the “mad cabbies” household. Heinz also manufacture “sugar free” baked beans, which is the variety that we usually buy, with my wee lass suffering from diabetes. One small tin is almost exactly “one exchange”, which is the way we measure her intake of sugar with each meal. So this is an incredibly useful food from our point of view. (Crisps are another good staple in this regard)
~ ~ I would usually finish by suggesting that if you hadn’t tried them yet, to go and do so. But do YOU know anyone who hasn’t ever eaten baked beans??!! Now where’s that tin opener gone? I’m feeling a bit peckish again.
Advantages: A superior tasting tomato sauce plus there are more beans in a can. Disadvantages: Contains more salt than Heinz beans.
...baked bean I'd be an HP brand because I'd be all rich and saucy. It would also be nice to know that my sauciness would be helping mens' prostate glands. With one stroke I'd be doing good, as they lapped up my lycopene content. Mind you, I wouldn't like be eaten. Mmmm, but on second thoughts, there are far worse ways to go than while being ... anyway ...
I'm not a baked bean so it doesn't really matter, I just eat them. Oh, and I'm not like the bloke ... ...can. This is where HP is a winner. Their tomato sauce is far superior, in my opinion, than the other brands that you'll find in a typical supermarket.
It's much richer and thicker for one thing - which is always acceptable. It's not runny and watery like some of the inferior has beans. The sauce is full of nummy things including real tomatoes, none of that puree stuff. There's also more ingredients than the competitors put in theirs. So, most definitely, ...
Sexy-Kay 07.06.2003
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Advantages: Cheap, easy to open, easy to prepare Disadvantages: Boring old baked beans
I don't recall having bought HP beans before. Now, you might be expecting me to go on to say that we are loyal to Heinz. But no, the truth of the matter is that I usually buy the cheapest baked beans in whatever supermarket I happen to be in. Providing, that is, that they don't have anything nasty in such as aspartame, which I have read turns to formaldehyde in your body and pickles you alive.
Funnily enough, although my family members woujld probably, ... ...'buy 4 get 2 free' HP baked beans multipacks in Lidl because they worked out so cheaply per can. And what is my opinion of them?
Well the can looks good, if a little on the boring side. The colour scheme is darkish blue, with gold bands, which gives the appearance a certain gravitas and respectability. There's a lighter touch in that two actual beans nestle in the loops of the letters 'b's of 'baked beans.' The contents are declared to be gluten ...
kittenkong 16.11.2005
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Advantages: Easily available Disadvantages: Excess could lead to increase in global warming
...aint no Heinz beans, they’s HP beans, same shit different tin. Look at them ‘grediants, you got beans, water, tomato puree, sugar, starch, salt, herbs an spices. All the same shit you got in a can a Heinz, just different label thas all. Open that can, an it’s even got a diddly ring-pull so’s you don’t need no can-opener, and I ready to bet you don’t tell the difference ‘tween these fine HP beans and the Heinz. ... ...that they IS Heinz beans in that can.” He shrugged, “I aint saying that’s so, but thems prime baked beans.”
Taylor was shaking now.
“You’re crazy. I’ve been fed Heinz all my life. Do you think that I can’t tell the difference? The colours different, the smell’s different and the taste is all wrong. Why couldn’t your gorilla get the Heinz? I gave him the money.”
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baddog 31.10.2001
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Advantages: Tasty, Gorgeous, Beautiful Flavour. Disadvantages: Counting how many beans you get.
I have just had something i have had not for a long time for me tea, something that i had forgotten what it had tasted like to have, something that i used to have most dinner times all them years ago when i was a teenager. Baked beans on Toast.
God how i missed these, i have to admit it, i loved baked beans, you can eat them with just about anything, they taste gorgeous, and you get on average 422 beans per tin LOL, god i scare myself with these ... ...sure how many you do get in a tin.
So what is it about baked beans that make them so lovely, well you have many different things.
1st, they are a simple to eat meal, that can be eaten with just about anything.
2nd, you can cook these in no time at all in the microwave, 3 minutes roughly and they are done.
and thirdly, baked beans on toast is one of the best quick snacks you can eat, if you only have a certain amount of time to spare.
When you ...
mentalmickey100 13.06.2003
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Advantages: Healthy & Tastey Disadvantages: expensive compared to other brands
...in the sauce & fartability...and HP Baked Beans come out tops in all these categories....
and as they come in tomato sauce, there is an added benefit of lycopene ( found in tomatoes)
What is Lycopene I hear you ask ????
Lycopene may possibly be one of the most powerful antioxidants according to some Scientists, Antioxidants are a group of vitamins, minerals and plant substances which play a key role in protecting our bodies from the damage that ... ...22 Sugars (g) 5 7.6 Fat (g) 0.4 0.5 Saturates (g) 0.1 0.1 Fibre (g) 3.8 5.6 Sodium(g) 0.5 0.7 HP Baked Beans in tomato sauce, a Farting good Product !! ...
Dalesman 10.05.2002
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