There's a difference

Is there more to life?

We sometimes talk about not pooping...

Thank you Margot you bring a light to this beanchamber

Free market doing its job, baby!

Wait, are you saying other things exist?

It's up to you to make the next big thing. Or someone else. It really doesn't matter. People are just tickled by beans right now.

As a Latino, the first time trying sweet beans in a pastry was so alarming. I still don't like them, it's so weird. Now sweet, fried plantains with a side of refried beans and avocado? Yes please!

Are they real beans that taste sweet or sweats that look like beans?

Hmm, maybe somewhere in between?

An acquaintance of mine bought an ice cream in china thinking it to be grapes or something, but it was bean ice cream, they were pretty shocked. But anyway sweet bean paste in pastry is really good, and seems to be popular in all of the Asia

UwU

Not when I was stocking them. People got sooooooooooooooooo mad that they couldn't find the "beans".

"british food" has come to mean "british food from ration times", which is obviously going to result in it being dogshit because people had to stretch a hunk of ham over an entire week.

Always cracks me up when Americans diss British food. Many have no idea how many American staple foods originate from Britain, especially in the Midwest.

And traditional dishes like corned beef and cabbage. I love me some corned beef with lots of mustard. And cabbage, you can eat it by the head and it has so few calories plus it has lots of vit c and fiber. It is excellent diet food.

I think it's more of a meme than real at this point. Most of the time when I see "British food", I think it looks pretty good, even if it's not flashy.

I mean, it's the best thing available

I can taste how much butter you put in the dough

There is great english food. It's just that your average brit ain't making it either. Ive been to Bournemouth on a school language program several times and we had amazing Yorkshire Pudding and more good stuff once. But we also had Microwaved raw Broccoli with soggy disgusting Pizza another time.

Also: You guys have an unhealthy obsession with vinegar.

The UK has some of the best produce in the world. What the average person at home does is of course something else but that's no different in a lot of countries.

As someone mentioned rationing didn't help the image but also the drabness of industrial canned food in the brown seventies. And people just forgot how to cook.

Beans, Beans, The magical fruit, The more you eat, The more you toot, The more you toot, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!

England: "...and I took that personally."

Served raw with milk steak boiled over hard

Beans (every flavour)

Isn't that just refried beans?

Wow it's so beautiful I had to google Asturias to confirm it's real.

Qué haces en Tus ratos libres?

Grits are mostly a southern thing. That said, they are absolutely awful IMO. I'd sooner try British beans with my breakfast.

You can't have Mexican food without hominy.

this comment actually made me upset I've realized we're halfway through December and I haven't had tamales yet

And yet if a fancy restaurant does pea puree, people are all over it.

Mushy peas are made from a specific variety (marrowfat) that were selectively bred to be softer and have a nicer texture when pureed. People are just snobby about it, baked beans, and food like it because it's working class food, without being fetishised 'exotic' working class food.

I would try this if I weren't a) a bad cook and b) terrified

Well you used spices and things with flavor, so it's not very British.

Elote with the flaming Cheetos crumbles on top...

Bixby corn from Oklahoma. The only good thing from that jesustan hellscape.

Haven't been much of a cook in a while, but for some reason the part of my brain that recalls these things really wants me to suggest using a pressure cooker for beans. I honestly don't know if that's a good idea. I apologize for this information.

I hate Bush's baked beans. They taste.. chalky. It's Van Kamp or nothing in my household.

No, no, Heinz beans are tasteless shite. You wanna go with branston baked beans instead. More flavour and cheaper.

Maybe if you've only had Mexican food made in Britain? Baked beans are good but relatively one dimensional. In Mexico, beans, rice, and corn are the staples of most meals. They're eating them at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Children have mashed beans and rice as their first solid food.

Do you think British people eat baked beans with every meal? They do in Mexico. They obviously make them in better and more varied ways.

This really isn't up for debate. Frijoles always win.

Actually, funnily enough, the common bean originated in Mesoamerica.

They're prepared differently. Don't usually see baked beans of any kind in Mexican cuisine, just like you don't see a lot of refried beans in British cuisine.