Boston Baked Beans in a Ditch or Something

[@tweedyoutdoors]

I see this video has already lost a subscriber! Any guesses as to what drove them away? 1) It wasn't technically a ditch? 2) The fake bacon? 3) The music during the tarp setup scene? 4) Tring? 5) The shocking declaration that I can't be bothered with straight horizons...?

[@philcollinson328]

Certainly wasn't me that unsubscribed ...Some folks are just petty mate...I'd not worry about it.

[@davidberlanny3308]

@@tweedyoutdoors 1) No, you were on grims ditch more or less. 2) No, fake bacon isn't for me but the overall result was great. 3) No, our attention was captured by analysing whether the guy lines were correctly aligned - well mine were!! 4) No, a man who is tired of Tring is tired of life!!! It's a lovely part of the world 5) No, nobody can be shocked by your honesty. 6). Yes, ok there wasn't a 6. They just pressed the wrong button or KZbin did it for them.

[@barryconway]

I tried that stuff. It isn’t Bacon, right… but it’s hard to say just what it is! Anyway, very good,carry on. Top marks for not reenacting a famous ‘cowboy movie’ baked bean scene. Good to see the serial joke evolving. I’ve ING Ho. If it were Ivanhoe it would be a book by Walter Scott.

[@Lancs1812]

Got to be Tring! 😉

[@awatt]

Lack of smoked paprika ... probably.

[@danmelvin8135]

I've been watching your London pub stuff for ages, then, after becoming unwell (definitely not related to your channel!) found myself bedbound for a week. The outdoors and wine channels are brilliant. I find it very entertaining when you pair a very decent Burgundy with something cooked in the Billy! Keep up the fantastic incongruity. Wine first, grub later always been my motto. My preference is for a left bank bordeaux; enjoyed a very pleasant, if a bit strange, trip to Fronsac before covid. Ended up taking plenty of really good stuff back with us that's drinking well now. If ever you're in Woking, I'll dig a few Fronsacs out and we can do a walk. Oh, another thing that intrigued me: Pangbourne. I worked there, too, ages ago. 2004. I probably either worked with you or drank with you!

[@liamkatt6434]

Paths or roads with tree cover growing over are often considered haunts of the devil in Ireland. My grandfather's cottage had such a tunnel of vegetation nearby on the road between Lisquinlan and Ballymacoda. My Grandfather's brother Pats called in one night for a few whiskeys. He left the cottage and returned almost immediately having been accosted by the devil in on the road. He needed several more whiskies before being strong enough to venture home, escorted by my grandfather who carried a blackthorn stick to ward off any more devils.

[@al1971]

Fair play Tweedy.....that's the best video you've done. "Because I can" Keep the beat going Tweedy 👍👍👍

[@davidclare4983]

The lost subscriber has lost more than you - keep your good work up and you'll gain traction. I loved the Boston baked beans experience!

[@elvis197797]

Mate I get down in the dump days. Keep them fabulous London pubs coming sir!! That’ll cheer u up ❤️🍺🍺☺️😎

[@gregoryworth84]

Thank you Tweedy for this little meander ! For those of us on the other side of the pond, green rolling hills, a little lunch cooked on a camp stove under a gray sky, well it made me very happy. Be well.

[@rideshareguy5.0ridesharead46]

Hey Tweedy, thanks for making my day! I hope you’re doing well. Watching videos like this takes me back in time. That countryside looks amazing. Definitely a lot different than where I’m at in Texas. Take care!

[@davidclare4983]

Tweedy - sorry to hear you're in the mood of "what's the point". The point for me is that you take me into the English countryside and pubs with your unique and interesting viewpoints, which is wonderful. I truly enjoy your videos. So try not to feel down - you're bringing pleasure to many people. Next time I'm over in the UK from the West Coast, we'll have to meet for a drink. Cheers, Dave

[@deborahevans189]

My favourite videos, love them. So relaxing and wholesome

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Deborah!

[@phill2383]

Always good to see you out in a great part of the world. Your cooking is inspiring and it's upped my game. Hope your mood lifts, I know what you mean - it might be the dire Summer. Phill

[@AntonvonGütwrench]

While the sound of igniting a camping stove is great...that moment when you turn the stove off and all goes silent. Awesome.

[@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

Enjoyable from beginning to end, despite all your reservations. Another brilliant recipe, destined for the Tweedy Outdoor Vegetarian Cookbook. I swear I could smell how delicious those beans taste. Now where’s my tin of baked beans 🤔 Looking forward to your next one. 👏👏👍😀🍷

[@MHawkins-qz1yr]

I have got the original handwritten carnivorous recipe here from one of TweedyOutdoors' grandmother's American friends.

[@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

@@MHawkins-qz1yr Nothing better than honest handwritten recipes handed down from generation to generation.

[@MHawkins-qz1yr]

​@@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian I've sent TweedyOutdoors a photo of the rather faded original recipe (which is slightly older than he is!) to see if he can enhance it.

[@brenallaround1986]

Always a good watch mate. Finished work for the day and had me dinner. Now watching a couple of your videos and enjoying glorious England from afar. Thank you. Chin up

[@davidberlanny3308]

Hi John, to hell with horizontal horizons!! Wonderful piece of panning to the sky!! This what I like about you and your channels you don't take yourself too seriously and yet you express yourself perfectly throughout and provide us with a wonderful dose of humour, I learn a lot as you go along too. I think bean stews are my favourites we often eat cocido, which is with chickpeas and fabada which is with broad beans. My favourite paella also has a bean in its recipe, the garrafon. The fabada uses smoked chorizo, smoked belly pork and smoked black pudding, you cook it with a whole head of garlic (just peel away the outer skin). I must say I liked the mix of ingredients in your stew, maybe not the 'bacon' but it sounds like it had good flavour. The good thing is that you can cook it on the go, I use a pressure cooker for the stews I mentioned and you would need a larger stove (or a camp fire). Im off to hear the tasting notes and see the other video. All the best!!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks David! I can't really think of any other way to be than not taking myself seriously when it comes to making these videos! Even though I've had a KZbin channel for over two years now I still feel like a complete amateur at all of this. It's so different to what I did in my professional career, back when I used to have one of those. Thankfully I have a very forgiving audience! I wonder if Boston Baked Beans might have Spanish roots then...?

[@davidberlanny3308]

@@tweedyoutdoors I follow a number of different channels and I'm constantly amazed about how well they are produced, yours included. The wiki entry doesn't seem to indicate any Spanish history but perhaps the Bostonians weren't all from Britain. Interestingly it inspired a Canadian dish, Fèves au lard, what a great name!!

[@0x4d2c3]

That was quite entertaining. Who would've thought watching a tweed-clad gentleman cook baked beans and drink wine between fields would be.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@0x4d2c3 I'm as baffled as you are!

[@Twirlover]

Well, I have just subscribed, Tweedy😊 Been watching your uplifting and informative videos (pubs and outdoors) for some time now. I’m going to give this recipe a whirl as it’s so savoury and quick 😊 Thank you for all your videos; they never fail to please 👌

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thank you! You have counteracted that other person who unsubscribed as a result of this video so now the status quo has been maintained! I think there's something quite special about Boston Baked Beans, especially when eaten outdoors, and obviously you can tweak all the ingredients to your taste. The one thing I would consider non-negotiable is the molasses! Although I suppose at a pinch some other kind of dark sugar would probably work quite well.

[@christinesimpkin570]

​@@tweedyoutdoors Yes indeed Tweedy, I could never leave out the molasses 😊

[@Lancs1812]

For what it's worth, I like your vids because they are authentic, honest and music free! I'm old school, and happy to be here

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Oh no - the tarp setup music!

[@Lancs1812]

@@tweedyoutdoors I can cope with that 😊

[@mattentwistle70]

I believe that the Grim's Ditch that you were following is a feature of The Ridgeway as there is a 3 mile long section that run near to Nuffield in the west.

[@AdeptHavelock]

Very, very, happy to see a shoutout for the best sauce in the world, "Hendo's" as we call it in Sheffield 😘

[@MattMesserPics]

Wonderful, as always, and good to be so authentic about the mood you are in! Trust me, I know exactly what you mean!

[@philcollinson328]

Despite me having the same reaction as your tripod - falling flat on my back at the thought of fake bacon, this was a wonderfully entertaining vid Mr Tweedy. Thank you for sharing your adventure.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Phil! That tripod is one of my fiercest critics!

[@WC21UKProductionsLtd]

As ever I learnt something that would help me if I ever went wild camping. Which I won’t, but it’s still good to know! No idea that you couldn’t cook in a tin anymore due to plastic linings. It’s health and safety gone mad! I liked your wild luncheon spot - it looked very wild, in fact. Sometimes it’s hard to leave spots like that!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Mr WC21! Yes it was a very disappointing revelation that it's no longer safe to cook things in a tin. I assume the Victorians made their food tins out of solid lead and there were absolutely no health concerns whatsoever. How we have regressed! I think it may have been one of my first ever wild camping expeditions, where around the tender age of 16 some friends and I went and camped in a wood and cooked Baked Beans and Pot Noodles directly on an open fire. Of course in those days Pot Noodles were still sold in 100% lead packaging and it was all much safer. On that camp we also learned that Jacob's Cheddars - those cheesey biscuits now mostly sold in "mini" format (an early example of shrinkflation) were incredibly good firelighters. Happy days.

[@johnrob6132]

Thank you for another light hearted video that brings cheer to another drab "summers" day. I think you got away with the weather by the looks of those black clouds!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks! The weather wasn't nearly as bad as the forecast had threatened - it was barely raining at all, I didn't really need that tarp!

[@garrymartin6474]

Bacon , beans and Hendersons match made in heaven. Being a Sheffield lad I used to get this for lunch on toast at least once a week.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Great to hear that Garry - I knew the Henderson's would strike a chord with someone!

[@david6920-r6z]

Looks good Tweedy. When I was a teenager I just added something like that to two slices of bread and smothered in grated cheese! Good all round meal! 🇬🇧 🇳🇿

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Dave! Despite my somewhat pretentious taste in wine, when it comes to food I pretty much just want down to earth comfort food. I'm pretty sure most of the things I enjoy most today are things I would also have enjoyed when I was a teenager.

[@hedleythorne]

Thoroughly enjoyable as ever, despite not being a day long adventure. It is a good illustration of the importance of getting out into the countryside for a bit of a reset. I must admit though, whilst you were sitting in that long grass I was nervously cuddling my tick twister...

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Hedley! I had a ground sheet down. I checked when I got home and I don't think I've brought any of the little gits home with me.

[@peterrussell3854]

Oh, and another thing. I once tucked in to a dish of Boston beans after an afternoon shift in abdominal theatre. Didn’t put me off. 😂

[@iainmc9859]

I ploughed my way through all of your vlogs last week. Extremely entertaining, occasionally quirky but that's what makes it different. I also tend towards the more classic wardrobe whilst out in the hills (Central Scotland), occasionally get strange looks when you're the only person wearing a waistcoat on the West Highland Way with a pair of sturdy brogues. More of a malt whiskey man myself though ...

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@iainmc9859 thanks Iain! I love single malts too, although it has been a while (15 years or so?) since I was really up to speed on that whole scene. I used to have a fair sized collection, maybe 30 or 40 different distilleries represented. These days though I just have a handful, and all I ever seem to want to drink is (cask strength) Laphroaig.

[@iainmc9859]

@@tweedyoutdoors Laphroaig was my first real love but I've branched out into making my own blends. There's a distillery just over the hill so I'm never likely to run dry. Home and Bargain have a few decent 'English' beers at the moment, cheaper than the fizzy craft ' IPA - Its Pineapple Ale' nonsense.

[@peterrussell3854]

Sorry to hear that the pubs videos aren't performing as good as expected yet. Personally, you are inspiring me and the missus to drag ourselves from our local (The White Horse or "Nellies" in Beverley), to tour the London/Lewes, etc. location's. Don't forget, on occasion you have beat Jooles Guides to it in several videos. Anyway, I would hate to think that the brolly would be redundant in any way. Seriously keep it all going and cheer us all up during these dodgy times. P.S Look up Nellies, apart from the Sam Smiths thing, it's a bit of a find.

[@davidclare4983]

Nellies - brings back memories from the 1970s of the two old lady owners serving beer via gravity from casks on saw-horses!

[@gordonmculloch4904]

Great camping fast food. I'll have to give that recipe a try. Cheers 👍

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Obviously lots of variations possible here! I like regular pre-made baked beans out a tin but I'm aware my regular salt intake is a bit on the high side, so one thing I like about making my own is being in control of that... Although I think with that fake bacon in this version I probably ended up with even more salt than Heinz!

[@jackiechan8840]

Love this. Keep your spirits up mate x

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@jackiechan8840 Thanks, will do!

[@frankcoveney6222]

I've been getting Henderson's with Gousto meals and wondered what the difference with Worscestershire sauce was. Now I know!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

I think there may be more to it than that, but one of its primary selling points is as a vegetarian (maybe vegan?) substitute for Worcester sauce.

[@Chilternwildcamper]

Thrilled to see this being cooked as I went to Texas for the eclipse and brought back a tin of Ranch Beans. I'm going to make this recipe, as soon as I find out what mollases are.... I was also feeling oddly sad yesterday and how right you are about getting outside to sweep away the ennui....is that the word?

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Molasses is basically just very dark sugar - I think it's usually in a more liquid form, but in this instance I happened to have something in a crumbly solid form, which I think was also sold as molasses, but now I mention it perhaps it was actually called something else? Sorry to hear you've also been experiencing a bit of ennui! In my case I felt better for the duration I was outdoors, but it came back again as soon as I got back to civilisation afterwards. Hopefully I have another chance tomorrow to spend some time sitting in the woods.

[@MHawkins-qz1yr]

Black treacle is a good substitute if you can't get molasses.

[@duncanleith9172]

We were both on different parts of the Ridgeway this Tuesday, but it's a bit of a misnomer for the stretch between Wallingford and Goring that I was walking, and which broadly follows the course of the Thames; and incidentally is a much nicer path between the two towns than following the Thames Path proper on the opposite bank. Don't worry about straight horizons, with the curvature of the Earth are any of them!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Ah yes I think when I was walking the Ridgeway for the first time start to finish I deviated from the official route of the modern national trail around there, and ended up walking along the road quite a lot, which I believed to be closer to the "original" route - if ever there was just one.

[@lespattison704]

It was ruddy good thank you Tweedy.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@lespattison704 Thank you! I'm not sure what the point of the video was but at least it was relatively short!

[@juleswombat5309]

Baked Beans in a Ditch. I could manage that. But yesterday I was on a Notting Hill London Walk and Pubs with my brother. All very Good.

[@Blair338RUM]

Best title ever lol Always add WINE!!!!

[@pootlingalong8928]

I love your classy little films. In a world of sloppy standards, you up the average 🍷

[@tweedyoutdoors]

I think my standards are pretty sloppy too! Just differently sloppy.

[@ysgolgerlan]

Thanks for the 'Beans' video, they were probably a bit insane. 👍

[@eddavis1832]

The only thing missing would be the bit where you whip out the cutting board and chop the onions and variety of peppers. As for your comment, “…what’s the point of it all.” Please know that your videos put a smile on our faces and are much appreciated. Lovely video…great location…thanks as always…CHEERS!!! 🍻

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Thanks Ed! I recently had a comment on one of my other videos from some guy giving me a health and safety lecture, apparently the way I chop things when cooking outdoors is "extremely dangerous" - I think that sort of thing definitely feeds into the "what's the point of it all?" feeling!

[@eddavis1832]

Oh, you mean the 46-year-old pretend food critic who lives in his mother’s basement? That bloke?!

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@eddavis1832 He said he was a bartender but the rest of your portrait there may well be accurate!

[@awatt]

It's not like food comes out of the ground. We all know that food magically appears in plastic boxes in the supermarket. 🤦‍♂️

[@adrianstone2605]

Enjoyed that, nothing wrong with a short walk in lovely countryside and cooking something. Could improve it only by using a Trangia :)

[@tweedyoutdoors]

I actually own one of those Trangia burners but I've just never got around to buying the fuel for it. I get the sense from watching other outdoorsy KZbinrs that it's a bit easier to achieve a more gentle flame with it, compared to, say, the fairly standard gas stove I use. Even though my gas stove has an adjustable nozzle, even the lowest possible setting is a bit harsh and I often end up burning stuff. I really ought to give the Trangia a proper go!

[@uur602m]

Salt pork is common in Canada.

[@Nat-lm1lu]

do you not have regular bacon in UK? uffff

[@salan3]

'Down in the dump'..... Yes you and many (including me) other people. The 'Summer' weather doesn't help.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Sorry to hear it's getting to you too Alan. I actually don't mind dreary weather myself that much, but it makes everyone else a bit glum, and then that probably feeds into my malaise indirectly. The heating has come on twice this week at home already.

[@salan3]

@@tweedyoutdoors Unfortunately changes in the weather causes pain for me with my conditions. Such is life!

[@marram1]

Come on mate..organise a Harveys based pub crawl! Your videos are our youtube high point!

[@juleswombat5309]

@@marram1 So I guess that would be a walk & Pub Crawl through East Sussex

[@Micktyb]

Excellent 😅Always perks you up getting out into the countryside 👍😁you don’t use meat ? Are you a vegetarian? Or is it for other reasons?? Thanks 👏👏

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Yes I'm a vegetarian - one of the many odd contradictions about me. Not many vegetarians wear tweed!

[@Micktyb]

@@tweedyoutdoors true but that is life 😁😁👍👏

[@johnrye6752]

I new there was more to you than just pubs?.......😊

[@nickbrown9757]

If you don’t mind me asking, what tarp is that ??

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@nickbrown9757 It's a "Micro Tarp" from backpackinglight.co.uk but I think it might have been discontinued, I couldn't find a link for it when I googled it just now.

[@nickbrown9757]

@@tweedyoutdoors yeah, I know the one you’re referring to. Backpackinglight has sold up unfortunately. I’ve got a DD 2x2 tarp, but it’s a bit lumpy for the size and I’m keeping my eye out for something lighter. Cheers 😉👍

[@tweedyoutdoors]

@@nickbrown9757 oh that's sad to hear - I bought a few things from them over the years. I originally bought this tarp for bivvy camping, I wanted something really minimal and lightweight just to cover my head, and this seemed to fit the bill really well. I hardly ever used it that way in the end, and it has mostly ended up being for daytime use when I want some shelter while I'm cooking lunch, or just sitting out in the woods in the rain drinking wine. Which is a common use case for me but apparently not for many other people.

[@nickbrown9757]

@@tweedyoutdoors Just thought I ought to clarify that backpackinglight is still going. It’s just that it’s now ran by Valley and Peak instead of Bob and Rose Cartwright. 😉👍

[@josephturner7569]

I prefer Heinz. Took them on exercise many times.

[@salan3]

The only thing I would do differently is cut up the 'bacon' Nice pairing.

[@tweedyoutdoors]

Yes I think that would have been a good idea!