Best Baked Beans

[SouthStandUpperTier]

9 minutes ago, Rogstanley said:

Beans and sausages, any supermarket own brand is fine. Open that can up, pick a couple of those 3% pork sausages out and gobble them up cold. Nosh nosh nosh. 

 

[Alf Bentley]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

It's true. My Dad worked in a factory that produced them, too. Not sure if the two things are related. I like beans in general just not canned baked beans. 

 

Can understand your Dad not wanting to see them on the table after a day working with them. 

 

I'm going "Other: Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself Tomato & Three Bean Soup" 

[Saxondale]

It's not about which beans, it's about how you do them. Let them simmer for a good long while, thickening the sauce up a bit. 

[davieG]

Any as long as they're served with Spam.

 

 

[ScouseFox]

absolute scum of the food world 

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Samilktray said:

Another crap food that we as a country put on a pedestal

GET OUT

[Izzy]

Over 3 Million cans are produced PER DAY at the Heinz factory in Wigan. The worlds largest baked bean factory. Facinating stuff 

 

 

[Webbo]

I voted branstons because that's what the wife buys but apart from of the cheap brands they're all much of a muchness.

[Merging Cultures]

There is only Heinz isn't there?

[Rob1742]

3 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Aldi's for me, Heinz has gone downhill since Kraft brought them out - increased the sugar and reduced the amount of beans.

Aldi brand is generally excellent. I knew someone whose missus worked with one of the three key tea brands. I think it was Tetley. They also did the own label for Aldi and the Aldi brand was a better blend than the key brand was.

 

That was years before Aldi was really accepted by the UK public, and it really was only around 2008 that the publics perception of the Aldi brand changed. 

 

I know a fair bit how they operate and their products are really excellent. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, bovril said:

Never had baked beans in my life. 

Can you be sure no one has ever slipped one into your Martini? Suspicious looking olive?

[Vossen]

Far too much sugar in all of them...

[Bellend Sebastian]

It may surprise you that an individual as complex, sophisticated and discerning as myself consumes baked beans, but I do and I am not ashamed.

 

I've eaten a lot of beans in my time and the number of votes for Heinz is as unsurprising as it is baffling. A triumph of marketing more than anything else, but we live in a world where Stella Artois can be successfully marketed as "reassuringly expensive", so these wondrous mysteries are nothing new.

 

I can remember as a child, when other carefully vetted children would visit Chateau Bellend to keep me entertained, when supermarket brand beans would be served their faces would contort with terror, as if being forced to consume a  shamanic concoction that would make their innermost fears become real in front of their very eyes. On sampling the terrifying wares, out of conditioned politeness more than anything, to their amazement they found that they were virtually indistinguishable from the branded efforts they had believed it was their birthright to consume.

 

They were rarely allowed to visit again, and naturally shadowy forces would work behind the scenes to prevent such explosive revelations being widely revealed.

 

But now I am an old man and they can no longer hurt me

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

4 hours ago, Royston. said:

Mexican regurgitated beans

 

They taste nice, but they look and feel like day old vomit, once a bit of the moisture has evaporated

 

I voted Branston. Heinz are great but Branston have a nice tang to them and I prefer them over all the others

[goose2010]

1 hour ago, Rob1742 said:

Aldi brand is generally excellent. I knew someone whose missus worked with one of the three key tea brands. I think it was Tetley. They also did the own label for Aldi and the Aldi brand was a better blend than the key brand was.

 

That was years before Aldi was really accepted by the UK public, and it really was only around 2008 that the publics perception of the Aldi brand changed. 

 

I know a fair bit how they operate and their products are really excellent. 

yeah they have improved no end i used to be a brand manager for them, now work as a packaging consultant for them so know pretty much who makes what for them.

 

It still makes me laugh people saying they wont shop there because its all cheap rubbish when a lot of it is exactly the same as anything else.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

40 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

It may surprise you that an individual as complex, sophisticated and discerning as myself consumes baked beans, but I do and I am not ashamed.

 

I've eaten a lot of beans in my time and the number of votes for Heinz is as unsurprising as it is baffling. A triumph of marketing more than anything else, but we live in a world where Stella Artois can be successfully marketed as "reassuringly expensive", so these wondrous mysteries are nothing new.

 

I can remember as a child, when other carefully vetted children would visit Chateau Bellend to keep me entertained, when supermarket brand beans would be served their faces would contort with terror, as if being forced to consume a  shamanic concoction that would make their innermost fears become real in front of their very eyes. On sampling the terrifying wares, out of conditioned politeness more than anything, to their amazement they found that they were virtually indistinguishable from the branded efforts they had believed it was their birthright to consume.

 

They were rarely allowed to visit again, and naturally shadowy forces would work behind the scenes to prevent such explosive revelations being widely revealed.

 

But now I am an old man and they can no longer hurt me

Soon to be featured on Ramsey's Hotel Nightmares I hope.

 

"****'s sake Seb! Come on! These beans are disgusting!"

[Jattdogg]

Heinz for me.

 

Simple food. Heck if im feeling lazy to make a vegetable curry i "masala" them up and eat it with roti.

 

 

[Izzy]

34 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

yeah they have improved no end i used to be a brand manager for them, now work as a packaging consultant for them so know pretty much who makes what for them.

 

It still makes me laugh people saying they wont shop there because its all cheap rubbish when a lot of it is exactly the same as anything else.

I can't imagine Aldi (or any supermarket for that matter) have their own 'baked bean factory' 

 

From the list, I'd guess only Heinz and Branston do, so I'd assume there's a pretty good chance they come from one of them!

[Sir Shep]

I’ve gone for Branston but why oh why do I still have to use a can opener on them, like it’s still 1980. 

[Tuna]

Beanz meanz Heinz.

[Unabomber]

Worst thing about beans is people who microwave them instead of cooking them on the hob 

[whoareyaaa]

10 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Aldi's for me, Heinz has gone downhill since Kraft brought them out - increased the sugar and reduced the amount of beans.

The bullet bean?

[Bellend Sebastian]

5 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Soon to be featured on Ramsey's Hotel Nightmares I hope.

 

"****'s sake Seb! Come on! These beans are disgusting!"

Negotiations are ongoing. They are haunting, yet beautiful

[Wymsey]

7 hours ago, Webbo said:

I voted branstons because that's what the wife buys but apart from of the cheap brands they're all much of a muchness.

Wasn't there a Branston's business (don't know what) in Syston somewhere?

[Izzy]

3 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

Wasn't there a Branston's business (don't know what) in Syston somewhere?

Yeah I reckon so. But I think it closed down because the owners got themselves in a bit of a pickle.