UK vs USA Baked BEANS Differences! // Why Don't Americans Eat Beans on Toast?

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you so much for watching! The next video will be posted the week of January 2nd so if you don't hear from me next week, have a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@Poliss95]

And a Very Merry Christmas to you too Kalyn. 🎅🎄

[@KenFullman]

In times gone by (say in the 60s) there was a distinct difference between Heinz and other brands of baked beans. Heinz was streets ahead of the competition. Nowadays even the unbranded beans taste pretty much the same. The main difference seems to be that the really cheap brands will have far fewer beans in the tin. It's quite common now to see Baked beans with sausages. This will have small sausages mixed in with the beans in the tin. I like them as a change now and again, but I can't help but notice, the flavour of the sausages leaking into the beans, kinda spoils them (at least for me).

[@jerplusjeff]

Merry Christmas to you too 🎉😊

[@vijay-c]

Merry Christmas & a happy new year to you too, Kalyn!

[@mark314158]

Well, that's the baked bean obsession sorted out - next sausage rolls...

[@OleJacobsen]

Some grocery stores in the US have an entire aisle dedicated to British imports, I call them "The British Aisles" 🙂where you can find the UK version of Heinz Baked Beans and other great British items such as Hobnobs.

[@roberthayter157]

"The British Aisles"! Very good. 😊

[@Temeraire101]

Heinz brand is the most popular brand, however IF you can get hold of them try the Branston brand. IMO they are nicer.

[@Aeronaut1975]

Ha, "Britsh Aisles", nice! Hobnobs are the king of biscuits, but only seasoned pros whould ever attempt to dunk them in their tea, 2 seconds is too long and you end up with a pile of oaty sludge at the bottom of your mug.

[@black8art]

@@Aeronaut1975 ...but it's an OH SO TASTY "sludge"! ...lol

[@Aeronaut1975]

@@black8art Not a fan of the oaty sludge at the bottom of my tea TBH, but then again, I'm a Hobnob dunker blackbelt, I've perfected the art over decades of intense training, with knowledge and experience passed down through my ancestors.

[@anitawhite2669]

When my American daughter-in-law lived with us, here in the UK, she introduced us to Refried Beans (tinned version). I love them, and when I make Fajitas I will always have Refried Beans spread on a wrap. Loving your new type videos.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

I do loveee refried beans! Thank you for watching Anita!

[@carito7899]

Refried beans are Mexican Not From the US. The Baked beans in America are so disgusting. Full of sugar. Taste like nothing else to me. Im South American. My BF is English. I really enjoy UK baked beans for Brunch Not as much early morning. But love the flavor!!! 💜

[@lougriffiths]

I always make them. It's very easy

[@ShaneH42]

I’m loving these new nerdy videos. I’m no foodie but I’d (as a Brit) refer to string beans as long and round, while runner beans are long and flat(er) and often sliced lengthwise

[@davidhookway514]

Hi .Long & round are French Beans. However when I first saw Flat Beans v Runner Beans I was puzzled.

[@robert3987]

Runner beans are also perennials, which means they go dormant during winter and regrow during spring.

[@glenbmc3734]

Being raised on a farm, there are two types of green beans here in the US. Beans grow on either bushes or on plants which have runners. Bush beans are free standing and stay small while running beans need to have a support for the runners to climb (most people either hang strings for the runners or use a bamboo stake). Bush beans are small and round while most running beans are flatter and larger. They are both green beans (or string beans) and are cooked the same with basically the same taste.

[@gillianrimmer7733]

We have those here, they are called French or dwarf beans.

[@boroblueyes]

We also grow pole beans. They are green and flat, but larger than green/string beans. There are bush and vine type. In the South we usually grow small green lima beans and we call them butterbeans. We also grow colored butterbeans. They are verigated in color before they're cooked and they turn a grey color when cooked. We have quite a varied selection of beans. When you get to baked beans, they definitely have different tastes as I found out when I lived in Portugal. I had my wife send me packages of food from the U. S. during my year in Portugal and my Portuguese friends thoroughly enjoyed my Bush's brand, home style baked beans. I always add, a little cane syrup, BBQ sauce and mustard for the perfect beans. We generally either cook them in a pot on the stovetop or put them in a casserole dish, with bacon on top and cook them in the oven. Beans on toast is not for me, I don't like the combination, but if Brits like it, bon appetit.

[@BBKing1977]

In Canada, we have both Heinz and Bushs baked beans, and the Heinz are available in a variety of sauces including a "British style" tomato sauce. We've kinda got the best of both worlds here. 😀

[@RosLanta]

Asda baked beans are great. Some supermarket own brands are horrible but Asda do them really well, and considering they're a fraction of the price of Heinz I think you made a good choice!

[@Aloh-od3ef]

I totally agree! I had a tin of them last week and I had to check the label because I thought they were Branston beans 😆

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Oooh, glad to have another Asda beans fan!

[@akula9713]

Check the amount of sugar or high fructose corn syrup that some of the cheaper brands use.

[@tonibaker3823]

@@akula9713 there is none in uk baked beans

[@RosLanta]

@@akula9713 Asda own brand has less sugar than Heinz

[@patriciaburke6639]

Obviously, a lot of research has been done into this subject and expressed very clearly and effectively in this video. Almost like watching an episode of ‘QI’. Branston Beans would be my go-to Brand, rather than Heinz, but, Supermarket ‘own brands’ are also acceptable. As for Beans On Toast, it’s a quick, easy, tasty snack/meal. Enhanced to taste in my case, with some Sea Salt and Black Pepper! (Other Toppings are Available for Personal Choice)

[@heraklesnothercules.]

Yep, I also prefer Branston baked beans to Heinz. They seem to have a thicker, richer sauce. I've not seen the reduced sugar & salt ones for a while, though.

[@timesthree5757]

Yea I've tried it with toast. But my American taste buds don't like it. I do enjoy baked beans and cornbread though it is tasty.

[@carltaylor6452]

I've watched so many videos of Americans either looking at British baked beans and going "Euww!", with Brits in the comments vigorously defending them, or Americans trying them on toast (hopefully not using that sweetened fake bread stuff) and agreeing that they aren't bad. This video provides a great resource to explain the crucial differences and is a step toward furthering more peaceful cultural relations between our two great nations. Thank you for your service.

[@jamiesimms7084]

We have runner beans and green beans here

[@jameslewis2635]

If you want a good can of beans you should try Branston beans. They have a much richer tomato sauce in comparison to the Heinz beans that I find to be a bit watered down.

[@CarolanneTitmus-Greene]

LOVE THEM. x

[@lougriffiths]

Completely agree they are the best

[@MeFreeBee]

My American mum was fostered by her aunt in the 1940s. Aunt Maude would always make baked beans on a Friday and mum hated them - like bullets she said. She settled in the UK in the 50s and didn't return to the US until the 70s because back then air travel was prohibitively expensive. The first thing Aunt Maude did, as a special homecoming treat, was make her some of her "favourite" baked beans!

[@MFiction60]

😅😅😅

[@steveknievel]

Have you tried the 'five beans' version of baked beans? They're good. They include haricot, cannelloni, borlottie,red kidney and pinto beans.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Oooh, no I haven't, will add that to my list!

[@MFiction60]

Campbells has been selling baked beans in a light tomato sauce forever - or a very long time - here in the US. I grew up in NY and that's what we ate. I didn't discover Bush's style until I was about 20. So, we do have them!

[@brenspin]

Absolutely. Are you also familiar with the Van Camp's brand? These and Campbell's canned products are labeled as "pork and beans" because they contain little chunks of pork/pork fat.

[@MFiction60]

@@brenspin yes, those too!

[@barriehull7076]

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." It's one of the most quoted lines in film history and appreciated for the malevolent calmness of Sir Anthony Hopkins' delivery. Silence of the Lambs'

[@bobjpgr3683]

I’m American, and my English/American husband makes beans on toast. I made it for my Mom and she likes it too. Have you thought about showing your audience about Pie and Mash? Erin

[@djtwo2]

Recent news is that a variety of bean has been developed that is suitable for both growing in the UK and being used in UK-style baked beans. Previously available varieties could not do both.

[@alanmills9492]

Hi Kalyn, thank you for your tireless research. How difficult it must have bean.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

All in the name of the public good Alan!

[@legend9335]

Baked beans with sausages in a tin are available in the UK. Also there are French Beans and Dwarf Beans and Kidney Beans. Baked beans with mixed grill also available in a tin.

[@scrappystocks]

Good explanation that helps all of us understand. Unsprisingly, Heinz baked beans usually contain more sugar than other brands but this varies. Heinz do produce a lower sugar version of their beans.

[@w.reidripley1968]

Boston Baked Beans from my late grandfather. He used a very low oven and most of the day; i use a slow cooker, about five hours. Soak 1 or 2 lb (so, a kilo for a large batch) Great Northern white beans, or substitute Navy beans, overnight in water with a teaspoon of baking soda dissolbed in, or added with a change of water to begin the next step. Parboil the soaked beans with the soda in that water. (doing a quick-soak of the beans also works if you didn't soak overnight) The beans are ready when you can spoon a few beans out, blow on them, and the skins break; this doesn't take long; try this test when the bean boiling water has foamed up to about the top of the pot. It can foam all over the stove, so keep an eye on that. Drain parboiled beans, reserving some or most of the water. Into your slow cooker, place a quartered onion, 1/2 cup/2 oz salt pork cut in cubes 1/2" to 3/4" (anything up to 2 cm), or bacon (streaky bacon) if preferred. Either will do; the stuff disincorporates to flavor the beans; molasses and powdered mustard to taste; 1 tablespoon brown sugar per 2 lb dried beans. I usually find myself adding in some more molasses toward the end of cooking time, i like molasses-tasting beans. Add reserved bean water to not quite cover the beans, which probably will not use all your water. Cover and cook 4-5 hours on High power, overnight if on Low. Late in the cook time, stir the beans well or mash them some with a vegetable masher, to break down some of the beans into a sauce. Continue cooking another hour or so. By now the whole house smells wonderfully homey. The recipe is extremely forgiving and adjustable to taste.

[@sylvanaire]

This sounds remarkably like my grandmother’s recipe & you’re right, after baking all day the house does smell magical! I’ve tried to duplicate her recipe but have had little success. The beans often come out hard if I mistakenly add too much molasses or mushy if I add too much water. 🤷‍♀️ So instead I buy B&M canned baked beans which until the last couple of years were made in Portland, ME. Whenever my family would come home from the airport we’d drive right by the factory & smell the delicious aroma & know we we finally home, lol. As a side note, in my family we had Baked Bean supper (with rolls or brown bread, hot dogs & cole slaw) every Saturday night & often had cold leftover bean sandwiches for breakfast the next morning. Yum! 😄

[@Canalcoholic]

Heinz have priced themselves out of our shopping basket. We generally go with Aldi or Tesco's own brands for one third of the price. Best on toast with a brown or a curry sauce, and grated cheese.

[@davidz2690]

I only recently tried baked beans and suddenly they were ridiculously expensive, typical! I wait until Branston are on offer for £2.50 for 4 tins and buy loads

[@Aeronaut1975]

Same. Heinz are taking the p**s with their prices now, have you seen the price of a can of soup?! absolute p**s takers...

[@carolineskipper6976]

Brit here. I generally eat Baked Beans with grated cheddar on a Jacket Potato, or as part of a Full English Breakfast. Growing up we had them on butttered toast for weekend teatimes (dinner time), but I don't do this now. Occasionally I will stir a tin into something like a chilli if I am short on Kidney Beans. I do home made 'Boston Baked Beans' as a way of using up cooked gammon- notably in the post Christmas phase. We love that. I also like the french dish 'Cassoulet' wich is a beany tomatoey garlicy casserole with pork in, that is obviously another distant relative of the 'Baked Bean'.

[@Zatnicatel]

Also I agree with some other commenters - in the UK, string beans are french beans, they are rounded and cooked whole. Runner beans are different - they tend to be larger, are flat and sliced up before cooking. We grow both kinds in our garden. Edit: My husband tells me I am completely wrong! String beans are runner beans because they have strings on the side which you pull off when you slice them...

[@lynnejamieson2063]

I think string beans is just a slang term, so may be used differently in different parts of the country. To me string beans (so called because they resemble string), green beans and French beans are all the same thing but runner beans are the larger flat ones.

[@mistakenot...4012]

Your husband's completely wrong. I can understand where he got the idea but it's wrong.

[@sillysausage2244]

String beans are the French beans, but they have had the fibrous string bred out of them.

[@tonys1636]

The plants are also different, French or green beans are bush like, Runner beans are a climbing plant and the plant runs up a pole frame or trellis. Most French beans in the UK are now imported from Spain or N Africa (Morocco) and Egypt which allows a year round supply. Increasing the carbon footprint though as are often flown from the African continent.

[@sillysausage2244]

@tonys1636 There are climbing varieties of French bean that will get to 6 feet tall!

[@carlcollins8967]

Heinz are my go-to baked bean, though Branston are very good too. I find the own-brand beans from the supermarkets to be thinner and have a weaker flavour. Loving your new video format, keep it up, it's really entertaining and cheers me up no end!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you so much for watching! I'll have to try Heinz vs Asda...

[@carltaylor6452]

I'm a recent convert to Branston, largely because of the Heinz price hike, and I have to say I prefer them. Is it my imagination or are they fractionally less sweet than Heinz?

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@carltaylor6452Branston, aka Crosse & Blackwell, have always beaten Heinz in blind taste tests for many decades.

[@coldwhite4240]

Good video. When I woke up this morning, I didn't expect today to see an Anglo-American girl state with serious conviction: "I believe in baked beans"! 😆 But I agree with your summary, given the difference in the taste and way of serving of each type. There's an old expression that used to be commonplace when I was growing up here in the UK, but which is rarer these days: "Horses for courses!" It's the British equivalent to the American "Different strokes for different folks", I suppose.

[@stumccabe]

The best way of cooking (British) baked beans is the way my mother did it - cook them in a frying pan in a little bacon fat - they get a bit of smoky bacon flavour and frying them reduces and enriches the tomato sauce.

[@black8art]

Like tomatoes, growing "runner beans" is a great way to get kids interested in FRESH FOOD! Summers as a child was always accompanied by picking the ripest tomatoes, and collecting the longest and freshest beans for mum/gran in the kitchen!

[@lougriffiths]

When my kids were little, we never got the green beans to to kitchen as they had already eaten them outside

[@davidioanhedges]

Runner Beans : Phaseolus coccineus originated in Central America but are apparently not used much there now Green Beans/String Beans/French Beans/Snap Beans : Phaseolus vulgaris also come from South and Central America But they have both been cultivated for centuries and so there are many varieties ...

[@philipellis7039]

Not had American style although I don’t eat bacon so probably wouldn’t. Happy with supermarket own brand baked beans, I usually add something to them such as chilli sauce anyway. Enjoying the new videos. I went through a period of watching US vs U.K. videos on KZbin but it quickly got samey (I never want to hear about plumbing differences ever again!) so these are nice and different.

[@kevinerose]

We have 2 versions Pork and Beans and Baked Beans (which is without)

[@powellmountainmike8853]

I think here in America what we call "pork and beans" is more like British "baked beans" were before they lost the pork. They form the basis of a recipe a Hell's Angel friend of mine when I was in the U.S. Navy back in the early 1970s taught me for making biker chili. Brown ground beef in a skillet. Add diced bell peppers and onions and canned pork and beans. Season with garlic salt, black pepper and a lot of chili powder. Simmer on low heat until the flavors blend.

[@cScottD]

I used to eat pork and beans on a toasted hot dog buns and it was quite good.

[@lemdixon01]

Beans beans good for your heart. The more you eat the more you ....

[@CarolanneTitmus-Greene]

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[@urseliusurgel4365]

Haricot is a word of French origin, hence the pronunciation. In parts of Louisiana the beans are still known as haricots, due to varieties of French being spoken there. The phrase, "Les haricots ne sont pas salés" (the beans are not dirty) is found in some Cajun songs, and haricot is believed to be the root of the term Zydeco, the Louisiana music style.

[@pipe2devnull]

There is a roadside haricot restaurant in a small Quebec town near me. I haven't tried them.

[@cheekymonkey666]

runner beans we also eat the pods, cleaned and then sliced at angle to produce a diamond shape about 8mm in width, cooked as they are or placed in stews along with other veg.

[@adcatman]

I enjoy your reviews. Light hearted and friendly....Well Done 🙂

[@colinellicott9737]

Love my Bush's Vegetarian baked beans on toast here in Maryland, USA. Easily as good as all the Heinz baked beans on toast I ate in England for my first 26 years. Still my favourite go to meal ; )

[@delskioffskinov]

Your hard work doesn't goes unnoticed lass! lol!

[@renatewest6366]

We used 4 bean mix in a can for salad.Washes beans.Chopped spring onions( shallots) diced cucumber and tomato optional .A little salt and black pepper and mix small amount creamy German style mayonaise.Setved side dish with grilled loin chops or steak.

[@Martyntd5]

You can get Heinz baked beans with pork sausages, vegan sausages, with chillies, BBQ flavour and loads more.

[@M40tired]

As a family in the 70’s until today we would eat a ‘beano’ as a treat… baked beans on toast with Kraft sliced cheese grilled on top….sometimes back then a dusting of garlic salt, now more likely to be HP sauce (brown sauce). The brown sauce lifts the flavour of the cheese and the tomato sauce from the baked bean tin. Equally you can have a strange moment and use curry sauce beans. Trumpeting later like a campfire cowboy is a given as you get older. Love the show …..p.s. have you tried the Extra M40 service stop at Beaconsfield? On a good day it’s the motorway service station Carlsberg would make if they were making a service station.

[@cheekymonkey666]

as for baked beans brand i get the cheap brand from asda and add a little of tomato ketchup/puree to increase the flavor.

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Also a top tip: Mix in curry or chilli powder to give your beans more oomph!!😊😊😊😊

[@ethelmini]

curry powder & sultanas - makes 'em palatable cold too

[@makeasylumsgreatagain864]

Curry powder and grated cheese

[@danu_emrys]

My favorite baked beans were the Boston baked beans at Howard Johnson's restaurants. They had been baked until there was very little fluid left between the beans. Most of the sauce had been baked into the bean and the bean had baked down until they were firm, 'al dente'. Of course they had become quite sweet as well. Served in a little bean-pot. And their brown bread was delicious as well, also sweetened with molasses and raisins, more like a slightly spicy and sweet cake

[@davidbrown5185]

I remember from when I lived in America, the nearest to British baked beans, was something called pork and beans, in a can just like the British version, except for a couple of small cubes of far pork.

[@colinbrown9549]

This is exactly right, as a Brit in the US these are just like UK baked beans minus the pork, I can't eat the US versions of baked beans, too much sugar for my taste

[@clivewilliams3661]

Chick peas are often now called Chana due to the eastern influences where they occur in many dishes. They are great as a snack food when a can of chick peas is lightly baked on a tray in the oven to provide a crunchy, sightly salty (due to the brine in the can) snack that is definitely Moorish. There is one commonality between American and British baked beans that the is - Beanz meanz fartz! 😀😀😀

[@wessexdruid7598]

Moorish (i.e. N.African Muslim) - or moreish?

[@clivewilliams3661]

@@wessexdruid7598 Both spellings (I checked) when referring to food mean that it is so tasty as to makes you want more (not Moor😀)

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@clivewilliams3661 Definition of Moorish (Cambridge English Dictionary) - "belonging or relating to the group of Muslim people from North Africa who ruled Spain from 711 to 1492: Moorish architecture." No mention of this - Definition of Moreish (as English slang - Collins Dictionary) - "adjective. If you describe food as moreish, you mean that it is so nice that you want to keep eating more of it once you have started." The only reference to connecting the two says that usage is incorrect, and came from Mediterranean olives being described as 'Moorish' - because of their _cultural_ influences. (abccopywriting.)

[@wrs10]

Pulses (eg beans) + grains (bread, rice) together provide the 8 amino acids, the building blocks for proteins.

[@kristophergoordman7225]

That’s why Rice and beans are a staple of most Latin American cultures and they are able to sustain themselves on little to nothing else

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I'm a Yank but with an English Mum and Gran. I eat baked beans both ways. With a BBQ I eat American baked beans. With breakfast, I eat British baked beans on toast.

[@markgibson3034]

I’m all into the Lidl brand baked beans. I like the ones with the little hotdog sausage in. I normally stir in some cheese and pour them over buttered toast. Yum yum.

[@chrisoram1266]

My mum (who was Canadian) used to make her version of Boston Baked Beans as a treat for us. We ate them with hunks of French bread.

[@johnsmith8410]

Worcestershire sauce in baked beans just makes them zing

[@cristelvideo]

Heinz Barbecue beans are a bit closer to US baked beans. I like both US and UK beans. As to green/runner beans : Green beans in the UK tends to mean french beans which are shorter than runners, grow as a low bush rather than winding up canes, and looked at end on are round rather than flat. Really good to have you youtubing again.

[@heliotropezzz333]

Brits also eat French beans which are green and not the same as runner beans. I always put freshly ground black pepper on my baked beans on toast for extra flavour and have it with a drink of orange juice or coffee. Those flavours are complementary and vitamin C aids the absorption of B vitamins from the beans or bread (can't remember which now). Another favourite meal is beans on cheese on toast (The cheese is grated and grilled before the beans are added). The bread I use is always wholemeal brown bread. Baked beans are also served as a side dish in the traditional English breakfast. I've not had American baked beans but I have had refried beans.

[@davidbird4713]

I've never tried American baked beans, but I do like them on toast with vinegar, I also like to open a tin of Morrisons baked beans and eat them with a spoon. Love your videos. Keep them coming.

[@matthewgreenough2431]

Nevermind the beans, that full English is what I need right now.

[@patriciaabatemarco3834]

Much to my surprise I’m a huge black pudding fan. Bring on a full English

[@markjlewis]

I make American style baked beans (using bog standard Heinz as a base) here in the UK but I refer to them as BBQ baked beans. I add things like BBQ sauce, dark brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. I usually include onion and smoked bacon. I sometimes add some chopped peppers (bell peppers) too. Great to go with a BBQ and they are also good on baked potatoes. Never had them on toast as there are never any leftovers as my family seems to empty the serving dish every time I make them. We always buy Heinz.

[@idristaylor5093]

Runner Beans are String Beans. This being due to the preparation in which you "top & tail" the bean pod and then remove the string (essential to its enjoyment) and slice through the beans in the pod at a 55ish degrees angle with a quarter inch separation. You must then bring them to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes so that the bean is safe to eat. Also worthy of note is the US Fava / UK Broad Bean which can be eaten with or without its jacket, but without the pod. Also the top few inches of this plant can be eaten as a green vegetable. Potatoes, Garden Peas, and Broad Beans are all worth growing at home to eat upon picking but take second place to the Runner Bean, which in my opinion is unbeaten as your must have crop.

[@gsf5882]

I am British and I mostly eat baked beans as a side dish but on my plate. Such as sausages, beans and mash. Scotch pie, beans and chips. KFC style chicken with corn on the cob and beans and chips. That sort of thing. I don't generally put beans on top of things and if I do have beans on toast I generally put grated cheese on top of it.

[@weedle30]

Favourite beany meal is either a BEOT (beans, egg on toast) or a BBEOT (bacon, beans, egg on toast) or….. *drum roll* BBEOTGC (bacon, beans, egg topped off with a smidge of grated cheeeeeeese!) luvvleee! 😘😊

[@w.reidripley1968]

"And it hasn't got much Spam in it."

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi Kalyn, In UK we do have some meat in cans with beans, normally small sausages (hot dogs), some times, though not as common. Many of our Bean/pulse dishes are from Asia (India). Many of our spicy foods the equivalent to Mexican is Indian (broad term including many other Asian countries) We also have Pease Pudding, which I think has a similar place to refried beans (though not a similar taste, often used with boiled or baked ham or gammon or salt beef. We also have Broad Beans, sometimes called Horse Beans (no idea why). I'm guessing another reason for US not having beans on toast, is the bread (ours is not sweet), also we butter bread, which mean it acts as a barrier preventing the toast becoming soggy.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Please pudding, from the North East!

[@pergustavsson2424]

Ooh! - This takes me back some 50 years. Living i communes in the UK and Eire in the late 60s, none of us did really have any money, busking at a street corner never made any one rich. So standard fare, morning and night, was beans on toast. If any of us had made some money that day, we made a party of it with cheap Spanish wine to wash down the beans-on-toast. Long time now since I saw a can of Heinz.

[@hocevents]

I was a Heinz boy, now my go to premium is Branston. They're much nicer & a little cheaper than heinz. For your cheap beans if you add a tiny (5 pence) amount of tomato puree and stir through with seasoning to suit, cheap beans are almost as nice. Also, we most definitely do still do beans with sausage. THEY ARE THE BEST.

[@colinlambert882]

Whole Fresh beans are either French/green beans or runner/string beans. Green beans are cylindrical & available right around the year, either frozen or flown in from equatorial climes such as Egypt or Kenya. They are also grown seasonally in Europe/UK. Runner beans are larger, flatter shaped, with rough skins, grown widely in British back gardens and allotments. They are not sold commercially in large numbers, so found generally in markets and farm shops, rather than supermarkets. Green beans simply need to be “topped and tailed “, whereas older, larger runner beans may also need the ‘string’ down one edge of the bean to be pared away, then sliced.

[@JohnPilling25]

I make British baked beans in the us where I live (expat) - I can them (mason jars) and usually produce 10 to 20 jars at a time - my pressure canner will take 10 US pint jars and each batch takes an hour to cook/can. I add a splash of hp sauce and they taste just like the branston baked beans in the Uk. Btw you can actually buy Heinz UK baked beans in the British section of Publix supermarkets in Florida though they cost around $5 a can. There are lots of brits in Florida. Beans on toast or as part of a full English breakfast is the only way to go.

[@0KiteEatingTree0]

The best Recipe for American Baked beans I found was in the Laura ingalls Wilder cookbook. A very popular author in uk. If you want to know about different types of beans, just get any seed catalog. Thompson &Morgan or similar

[@lucyrakauskas]

Never tried with US beans. I love adding some grated cheese on the top of the beans. ❤️

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Cheese and beans are definitely great together!

[@chriswalker8132]

Heinz Baked beans, boiled in a sauce-pan rather than the miocrowave is so much better. The sauce thickens up, the beans becomes softer and the taste is completly different. I add some seasonings, maybe come chilli to highten the flaovour. Then pour on butter soaked toast with grated cheese on top.

[@kevinwilkes1963]

I’m from the US. I’ve never liked baked beans until I had them for breakfast in the UK. Delicious.

[@daleeinarson6938]

@6:00 mark for differences between UK and USA baked beans.

[@julietannOsfan1972]

I’m a very fussy eater & only like Branston beans. They’re great.

[@IanDarley]

I like both, my American wife got me into Boston baked beans in the early 90s, so occasionally I will still add some sweetness with maple syrup. My favourite bean brand is Branston; the source is richer and more foursome for me.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Mmm, love Branston!

[@IanDarley]

@@GirlGoneLondonofficial *sauce. I meant Branston Baked Beans, but I do like Branston pickle on a sandwich.

[@dongray9852]

Grew up a little east of Pittsburgh, Heinz was our locally produced preference. Mom added a dash of Worcestershire and brown sugar. And to this very day my wife won't eat her hotdog without beans on it, in the bun. This is called the "Drewbert Dog" for the friend she first observed doin' it. Still a staple in our Florida household...

[@davemckenzie4363]

I love beans on Toast. I play with the flavours. Try adding a splash of Worcestershire sauce to the beans. Add a tea spoon of English Mustard. Add bacon bits. Use the canned beans as a base and create wonderful flavours.

[@eddiehagler6127]

Bush’s Baked beans is my preferred brand… I tend to augment my beans with some brown sugar and other spices. I also love to add pieces of polish sausage or smoked sausage to my beans.

[@scoops0406]

You add sugar to bush's beans!! wow, they already have twice as much sugar in them than UK heinze beans, they must be sickly sweet. 😮

[@Londonererer]

Tip! I add cherry tomatoes, yum. We have beans and sausages in a tin, which I've been eating since the 80s

[@owaffs]

The whole baked beans thing really confused me in the past. I thought Heinz was an American company but few, if any, of my US friends knew what I meant if I asked them about baked beans and when I saw pictures of canned baked beans in the US (google image search results) they were always in a brown sauce rather than an orange one. Your video clears a lot of the confusion for me so thank you. Also, I don't think many (any?) Europeans know what we're talking about when we (Brits) discuss baked beans. I feel like the Heinz way of doing baked beans is a *very* British thing. I don't think any of my international friends have ever understood what I was talking about when I brought up the topic of baked beans. Never tried baked beans with pizza though, that seems a bit out there even for me.

[@joyceredman2136]

There is difference in taste in premium type beans from Rancho Gordos Heirloom Beans in the USA and other bean growing companies compared to older dried beans in a regular grocery store. If there is a UK based company that sells their own heirloom beans, they should be tested against what is sold in cans in the UK.

[@iallso1]

There are 3 commonly eaten types of bean (green) in the UK, Runner Beans, Broad Beans - also called Fava Beans, and Dwarf Beans. Dwarf beans are also known as French beans or String beans, Haricots are a longer skinnier type of French bean.. Then there are a range of other beans as you discussed including Lima, Edamame, Mung, Soy, Adzuki, Black, Chickpea, Kidney, Lentil, Cannellini, Fayot, Pinto, Bush.

[@scoops0406]

you forgot butter beans, which I personally don't like.

[@710LENNY]

I pressure can my own beans (as you say, the price on all of them is rising), so I make "at home" versions of Bush's Beans, Heinz Beans, pork and beans, beans in molasses, beans in maple sugar sauce, beans in tomato sauce. You name it, if there is a video recipe on the internet that I can safely can, I will do it. Friday is usually sausage and bean night in our house, and I like to have them at least one other night a week. Of course, in the winter, I use canned kidney beans in chili, and various other beans in cabbage soups.

[@parkerzilla6323]

Runner beans and string beans. When I was growing up string beans were runner beans which were harvested when they were old. They were bigger than the younger runner beans but had developed many long very tough fibres or strings hence string or stringy beans which were cheap but very chewy, you had to spit out the fibrous part.

[@charlesunderwood6334]

Broad (flava) beans have been commonly eaten across Europe, but most bean species are native to the Americas and only arrived in Europe more recently. Runner beans have attractive red flowers and were once grown for the flowers. They produce pods over longer periods in cool (ie UK ) climate and so have been grown more commonly here than other (warm climate) bean species which are more common in Mexican, US and southern European food.

[@robrussell8515]

I have beans on toast. I have them as a side dish with breakfast or pizza etc. plus I ebbed have beans in with soup - adds some protein in with the soup

[@stevel2504]

I love Heinz but often make the American style at home. I tend not to use much sugar but add smoked paprika and a bit of chilli, great with sausages.

[@denickite]

I am 71 and growing up one of my friend's mom was an English war bride. If you were invited to lunch she always made baked beans on toast. I guess pork and beans! Anyway I always liked it. Still enjoy any kind of beans.

[@TIDYJOKER]

Interesting. I don't even like baked beans. I like hearing the research you put in though. It's much appreciated

[@ianmiles5885]

That was really interesting. Thank you for putting all that work in. 👍

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Thank you for watching!

[@dominique8233]

Green beans in the UK tend to be referring to green French beans. Round cylindrical pointy end. Having been ( 😂) to the US my understanding is string beans are what we in the UK call runner beans. A UK farmer has just managed to grow a crop of beans , after a lot of trials which can be used to make UK baked beans.

[@ears2u969]

What is a string bean? I buy stringless beans, aren’t they the same as runner beans just without the stringy texture? I might need to google it.🧐

[@judithhope8970]

We grow our runner beans each year. I thought string beans were also known as french beans which we also grow. We buy any supermarket's own brand baked bean.

[@bimbakasturiratne2262]

Try a splash of Worcestershire sauce or half tsp of curry powder or a sprinkle of herbs (parsley, dill-weed etc.) with your baked beans. Yum, yum😋

[@lougriffiths]

I made Boston beans a while ago, and we didn't like them much as they were too sweet, but there again, we don't like heinze much either for the same reason. Loving the videos, they make me laugh xx

[@Michael_Brock]

Branson beans my favourite main brand, more flavor. Basics, will take supermarket, but will jazz up with either herbs or spices or just add ketchup.

[@stephengraves3275]

I buy "baked beans" cans and pour them into a pot. I then add ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, and maybe bacon or ground beef, if I'm not trying to feed vegetarians. A bake at 350° for a couple of hours produces a savory, thick, and creamy comfort food. Baked beans on toast actually sound delicious. I'll have to give that a try. What I can't fathom is baked beans and pizza. I'm not knocking it, I just can't imagine how one would go about it.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

PS, During my two working sojourns in the US, totalling 10 yrs, I rarely saw lentils or split peas being used, and never saw a broad bean. However, I did enjoy a legume the Americans call black-eyed peas, which I discovered are actually a bean! Vive la différence!

[@kristophergoordman7225]

You never saw lentil or split pea soup? Maybe you were in the wrong area. More southern judging by the black eyed peas. I’m pretty sure lentil, split pea and even navy bean soup are more north eastern.

[@vinnieramone4818]

Whenever I get food poisoning or the flu where I can't keep anything down for a few days the first food that I reintroduce is mashed potatoes with American baked beans on top. You can get Heinz baked beans in tomato sauce in America but I don't know if it's the same

[@mondrus72]

Not quite on topic but is food thing that is really great is a Mac n Cheese scotch pie. Instead of the usual mutton or beef filling of a scotch pie you get macaroni cheese. You can also get chicken curry scotch pies which are excellent.

[@MsSarahJam]

What a brilliant video 🫘🫛 Thank you 👏

[@trevorhoward5005]

Cold baked beans as an accompaniment with a salad is wonderful (UK).

[@pixie706]

I love black eye beans but can't seem to get them in UK lately. Do they have another name?

[@RebelCowboysRVs]

Runner beans are not one bean, but a family of fast growing vine beans native the the Americas. To make things more complicated, Runner is also used as a slang term in the US to mean any vine growing bean, as apposed to a bush bean which grows as a bush. So when someone says they grow runner beans, the only thing you can be sure of is its a vine.

[@howiehowdy]

I love Boston baked beans on toast... but I only add the egg and bacon on occasional breakfast. For refried beans you must try mayacoba beans. They are probably the best bean on the planet.

[@RobinPalmerTV]

The trick is to always cook on the hob to reduce the sauce otherwise they’re too wet.

[@ethelmini]

They microwave fine, though it probably takes more than just warming. I think there's more going on than just evaporation, involving starch

[@RobinPalmerTV]

@@ethelmini they do but hob cooked is elite. If you want to go one step further then add some cornflour and butter to really thicken up the sauce. Baked beans are supposed to be pimped.

[@somnambulist7705]

I haven’t eaten Baked Beans (UK) for over 20 years, I was raised on the occasional meal of beans on toast which I never enjoyed and so I purposely avoid them, I also don’t like that they contain sugar. Years ago I did think the stores own versions have a thinner sauce, but it’s been so long since I purchased that this may not now be true. I saw Heinz Baked beans for sale in A Publix food store in Florida last week for over $6 a can which is a massive rip off, not as bad as a the price they wanted for HP Sauce though.

[@strayling1]

And check your bank balance before buying Ribena - $15+ a bottle when you an even find it. Vimto is completely out of the question of course.