Cancel please
Ok enough is enough.
I mean, fine, you’re in a hurry, you need to eat, you grab a can of something and make do. But don’t pretend it’s The Pride of the Nation or a Delicious Treat. Canned beans in sweet sauce are emergency food, there is no time food, when all else fails food. They are not not not “good” in the normal sense of good food. Many dishes that include beans or lentils are very good, but they don’t come in cans.
Also who told the UK that hash browns are molded rectangular wads? This is hash browns:
Also what is with that gruesome picture on the can? What’s with the ejaculating beans?
What the English are willing to eat never ceases to amaze me. And yeah, they have no clue about hash browns. (And have never heard of homefries.)
Tell me that Heinz had a “take your kid to work day” without telling me that Heinz had a take your kid to work day.
“and and and what if you um took and made the beens you know um and put stuff that into the hasbrowns that’s my idea.”
It doesn’t look like those will come in a can, probably frozen in a bag, like fish sticks.
That’s not a can. It’s a plastic bag. Those are frozen tubes of a potato/onion paste, pre-cooked, and filled with Heinz baked beans.
Every bit as disgusting as it sounds, I would expect. I am certainly not going to try some, but I can ask the younger grandchildren their verdict; because they’re bound to nag for them at least once.
Ok it’s not a can but the ur-Heinz beans that people make such a cult of are in a can.They have the soul of canned beans. They identify as canned.
Also Mike that made me laugh.
Beans and hash browns? Seriously? Beans and rice…slow cooked. Not canned.
Of course, who am I to talk? I live in a state where they serve chili in bowls made of cinnamon rolls. Then pretend it’s something everyone knows that you eat chili and cinnamon rolls.
We must be in the end times or something. Keep your eyes open for a pale horse.
Omigod are you serious? That sounds like the kind of disgusting combination my brother and I used to compete in inventing to gross out the adults on long car trips.
I suppose I can see, if you’re somehow in a situation where you’re handed a plate of beans and hash browns and there’s nothing else and you’re starving…I can see adding some of the hash browns to the beans in the hope that the beans will be a little less disgusting that way, but other than that…
What’s for tea?
ikn @7 I prefer rice and beans too, but southern style hash browns are great with a can of beans thrown in. Not the flavored ones, just regular canned navy or pintos. They are probably better with homemade beans, but that adds hours and I’ve never seen anyone make beans for that purpose. Also, who hasn’t eaten canned chickpeas? I have made them from dry many times, but the canned ones ain’t bad…
Baked beans are beans for people who don’t like beans. Which I can relate to. I grew up allergic to all legumes, but now it’s just peanuts I avoid (I probably could eat peanuts these days and survive, but really why would I want to?), but I never really learned to eat them. Oh, I’ve tried to change, and at times can tolerate them and even occasionally like them (especially lentils, with enough olive oil and other stuff), but for the most part I need something to mask the flavor and get over the slimy texture. Baked beans do an ok job of that, as long as they’re not too sweet.
Canned chickpeas are a staple in my home.
WaM @13 I eat a lot of beans, but I never could stand the flavored canned stuff, putting tomato sauce or sugar in beans ruins them for me. Or pork and beans, so disgusting. I make my own chili beans too, so canned is out of the question. I think you’re right, it’s for people who don’t like beans. Some people even eat canned pasta, go figure.
There is a quack named “Doctor” Gundramwhose thesis is that legumes…and several other foods in the human diet…are the root of ALL evil. His “program” is omnipresent in spam across these intertoobs.
I grew up on dried beans; they were cheap, and easy to make for a large family. Often that’s all we had for maybe a week. When my mother didn’t burn them, I liked them. Now I use beans a lot in my cooking. Sometimes canned, but you have to wash them carefully so they don’t taste sour, especially black beans.
Ophelia, I am serious. People have tried and tried to get me to try it. No thanks.
Oh, yes, canned pasta. We used to have Spaghetti-Ohs for dinner every now and then. I think I even liked them back then.
Coming from a British colony, I was fed tinned spaghetti and baked beans. We would grate cheese over the beans and brown them in the oven. Sometimes there would be wee sausages in with the beans as well. I certainly thought it was a treat then. Eat with toast and cups of tea to wash it all down.
Pasta came in the form of macaroni cheese. Dried pulses like lentils would only appear in vegetable soup (a special “soup mix”).
Brian @16 That reminds me of a small bit of trivia. Tomatoes are members of the nightshade family, and people thought them poisonous until the early 1800’s (many nightshades are indeed poisonous). I always found that interesting, and particularly so when referring to their use in Italian food, as tomatoes are indigenous to south and central America. So it kind of gripes me when things are advertised as ‘Old World’ Italian, because if it has tomato in it, it’s not all that ‘old’ given the extensive history of European food.
I’ve been to Iceland and they have great food. Why the hell are they promoting this crap?
Huh, I see Iceland Foods is a UK supermarket chain. That explains the food choice, if not the name.
It’s true that canned chickpeas aka garbanzos are not bad. They’re briny rather than slimy or sweetened or both, and the canning doesn’t seem to wreck them the way it does kidney beans etc.
Rob, Iceland started out as a chain of shops specifically for the sale of frozen foods, when British households started to be able to afford freezers. Hence the name.
Snobs!
I am not British, but I grew up eating Heinz Vegetarian Baked Beans, and I like them pretty well. It’s possible I’ve made baked beans from scratch, but usually the canned varieties from Bush or Heinz were the baked beans served at various family dinners. Lots of people don’t like baked beans, so it became a rare item and therefore a treat for me.
I’m not crazy about hash browns, or whatever those things are; they look like potato sticks. I don’t eat potatoes a lot, in any form, but least of all fried. I’ve never had potatoes with baked beans; it sounds like an unnecessary adornment for baked beans. Stuffing the beans inside fried potatoes sounds incredibly excessive.
Bean filled dumplings or macaroni, I’m interested; fried potatoes, no.
Brian M @ 16
… legumes … spam …
Spam and baked beans, sounds tasty, I’ll have to try it sometime.
Baked beans and pork-and-beans are, indeed, beans for people who don’t like beans. In my neck of the woods, they’re also primarily considered a side-dish at a barbecue. The smoky flavor of the meat blends with the sweetness of the beans better.
To be fair to England, the idea that hash browns can be made from a frozen patty of shredded potatoes is pretty much an American invention–see what you get if you order hash browns at McDonald’s, and it’s been that way all five of my decades on this planet. Sculpting the patty into a tube to fill it up with something cheap is, frankly, something I’m surprised we didn’t come up with, too. Maybe not beans, but in the US, we’ll put cheeze (sic) on anything.
But what kind of mad impetuous fool orders hash browns at McDonald’s???
Still, point taken, and I’ll say this: the cheapo burgers at the Wimpy’s chain actually tasted good. It was something about the onions.
Sack @26 Pasta stuffed with beans doesn’t sound terrible, some kind of ravioli maybe? Not Heinz beans, but something like pasta fazool would be good.
Pasta stuffed with beans sounds disgusting. Starch piled on starch.
Bean flavor is easily overpowered, I think the main reason to add them to anything is fiber; pasta has none, potatoes have almost none, and rice has very little.
I had the chance to try a McDonald’s hash brown patty recently. I tried to talk my friend into going somewhere else, but he likes their breakfast fare (much to my despair)… It was one of the few things on the menu that I could actually eat, but I’m sorry I did. I mean I never met a potato I didn’t like, but it was completely flavorless, and oil literally gushed out of it with every bite. It was mostly oil and salt and I couldn’t finish it. :(
I never had the desire to go to McDonald’s for breakfast, and I generally don’t eat breakfast anyway, so yeah, this kind of mad impetuous fool has learned his lesson. :D
Witness:
https://www.jimmydean.com/products/stuffed-hash-browns/
The bean filled ones are looking less disgusting now, thanks ikn. :D
I must defend McDonald’s’ breakfast, at least from about summer 1983 through summer 1985, when I worked ~75% of the Fr-Su 0600-1400 shifts at Cedar Crest & Tilghman.. Since I like my scrambled eggs light and fluffy and still a bit wet that’s how I made them and I apparently brought in a lot of repeats (which is how I ended up doing the 6-2 shift so often). First couple hours was usually easy and just 3-4 young (late teen) people like me so kinda fun. Where was I?
Oh yeah, at least back then all the breakfast ingredients were basically the real deal, even the hash browns. In fact the Canadian bacon was just refrigerated. The rest was frozen but not much more processing beyond the obvious cutting and forming.
I also like their coffee, at least in the context of coffee not made by me or an establishment that can make good coffee, and I just want a cup of coffee that doesn’t require any cream.
Mike @37 Maybe so, I can’t speak to anything other than the hash browns. Everything else on the breakfast menu either is or contains animal parts or secretions, even the oatmeal and pancakes.