Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Having grown up in the American Southwest, we mostly did frijoles charros on tortillas.
Man opens can of baked beans to find ‘bean juice and only one bean’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heinz-baked-beans-one-bean-man-bristol-a9092346.html
Good lord that’s a crime against the Empire.
A few years ago British guy opened a newly purchased can of Heinz beans and discovered one (1) bean in a little over 400 grams of tomato sauce. That’s a big enough deal in the UK that it made the international news. I recall Heinz’ PR gurus had to get involved.
See? We’re children. Big dumb children.
I love my children.
As much as I love beans (and crop-dusting people who cross me), I really need to try beans on toast.
Also, there weren’t really set titles at my part-time job. The first stab on what to put on my resume was “Asset Manager,” but given that we’re all a bunch of twelve-year-olds at heart, we both nixed that when we realized the abbreviation was “Ass. Man.” Hahahahahahaha.
Was there ever a more foreboding headline than “David Discovers British Bean Cuisine”?
Beans and toast?
In Heinz-sight I shouldn’t have eaten that.
As they say, hind-sound is tooty tooty.
Would ‘Tracy Talks’ be better for DT’s editorials?
Midwest riff: Campbell’s Bean with Bacon soup + buttered toast is a cure-all for many things.
Having an English wife, I’m basically obligated to love bean on toast
In Quebec, many do toast in beans.
Nice big bowl of baked beans and a slice or two of buttered toast.
Some scoop with pieces of toast, I prefer to rip a small piece of toast off and toss it in and rescue it with my spoon.
For a stateside rendition, when out on the road, Jack Kerouac was known to cook up canned pork and beans on top of up-ended motel room irons. I think Heinz used to make that even.
Baked potato ( big spud, Heat the oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Rub a little oil and sea salt over each potato and put on the top shelf of the oven. Bake for 20 mins, then turn down the oven to 190C/170C fan/ gas 5 and bake for 45 mins-1 hr more until the skin is crisp and the inside soft.) Meanwhile soften a large white onion in butter,(20+mins at very low heat) . Add a tin of beans to the onion/ butter mixture and a dash of Worcestershire sauce, heat until lightly simmering.Split said tato in half, fluff up the middle with a fork and some butter, and pour the beans over the thing. Coat it with grated cheddar. Fancy-pants folk might put a softly fried runny yolked egg on top. With a grind of black pepper and just a soupcon of hand crushed pink salt.
May I point out to Bishop or is that The Bishop that Heinz is a proud American based company, right out of Pittsburgh PA.? The Brits may have created Fart Toast or beans on toast but if you use Heinz the USA Perfected it. Ratio is eater specific as well as the brownness of the toast, I like a few thin slices of butter on the toast then beans and shredded Jack Cheese on top. May I suggest Texas toast for the bread (yes the bread is called Texas toast before being toasted) it is a thicker heartier slab of bread and also terrific for French Toast and Monte Christo sammiches.
I mean are we really taking cooking advice from the land of boiled meat and blood pudding? What’s next a universal British wiring lom for all cars? A British EV?
There is a saying the only Lucas electric device that doesn’t suck is the Lucas Vacuum.
Cheese doesn’t belong here. This is very basic British beans we’re talking about here. It should be British commoner spec, no extra gimmicks. Jack cheese means chili beans should be included and unfortunately Britain never defeated Texas.
Britain invaded all the world in search of spices and the best they can come up with on their own is beans on toast?
The three shortest books in history:
Toast? I’m ready for some beans on fried bread, oh yeah,with a bottle of HP sauce on the table. I’ve got to have crispy greasy, though I’m not allowed to fry things in lard anymore.
How is that Heinz has “57” varieties and Adrian has to send these from England? The world we live in..
I’ve seen these in H-E-B’s international aisle in TX. I’m sure they can be acquired elsewhere.
BOOB: Beater, Ordeal, Or Buy
Can’t wait to watch the Autopian’s Rust Seeking Experience, full of junkyard finds and forgotten heaps given their 15 minutes of love.
Actually, that’s an acronym I can – oh, wait, I was about to say get behind but … phrasing. Nonetheless, would absolutely read.
Wait, we’re still doing that? 😉
I swear, I had something for this…
When you guys announced the series, I assumed there would be some Slack-tastic conversations about the abbreviation. Frankly I’m surprised it took this long. 😀
The bug seems to be missing the straw hat…
Pop culture pop quiz for DT:
For today’s top prize, name that film! 🙂
I agree, the straw hat needs to make a reappearance. Also, Blazing Saddles.
“And We’re Workshopping The David Tracy Video Series Of Our Dreams”
Shower Beans?
I’m still waiting on the shower spaghetti cookbook, but shower beans? Gosh, I’d eat the hell out of shower beans.
Mmmmm Beans on toast. Adrian is right, small can covers three standard slices of bread. Where Adrian will probably decry me as a heathen is that I then gently melt a slice of cheese (real stuff, not Kraft) on top of each slice. Dairy is important!
And Jason, especially important for you, don’t forget the rhyme “Beans, beans, good for your heart,the more you eat, the more you ………”
Another segment could be:
David’s
Interest in
Continuing
Knowledge
Cheese is a fine addition, as is a dash of Worcestershire Sauce. But that’s advanced level beans on toast. I need to be sure they’ve nailed the basics first.
I do a bit of HP sauce on mine.
Worcestwhatnow?
https://x.com/aznotoriousjpg/status/1458970906663940103?s=61
Ah yes, the worst sister in the shire sauce.
Fair. To break the rules, first you must master them.
Will Lewin be sending the crew a jar of Vegemite? Because they’ll certainly need instructions on the correct dosage!
American tarmac is bad but they don’t need redo their roads with that stuff just yet.
Well I’m afraid Tim Tams wouldn’t travel well via post, so it’ll be compulsory Vegemite for all. One small jar I’ve no doubt would last a looooong time given how sparing you should be with it on toast.
Maybe Lewin could include some Haigh’s dark chocolate to compensate.
I’ve found TimTams at Target a few times. Mmmm
Question: What type of bread?
I wish to know the correct bread type to discern whether or not my upbringing was of the heathen variety.
Any kind of very crusty soft white is optimal. I suggested tiger but apparently that’s not a thing in the land of the $7 loaf of bread, surprisingly.
Ah, so I had a righteous upbringing! Excellent!
Now to stir the Brit….
1.Put beans in some form of bowl
2.Add tomato and barbecue sauce in whichever ratio and quantity you desire
3. Heap on grated cheese
4. Add a splash of Worcestershire Sauce (known as Worcester sauce at this house)
5. Heat Beans to desired temperature using heat source of choice
6. Pour resulting mixture onto buttered crunchy soft white toast
If a bean should fall off the toast (providing you eat it the uncivilised way like we do) it should look like spiderman while doing so
This is the one and only way
“Hello, is that the boat house at Hereford? Yes, yes I’ve found another one..”
I’m sorry, but this uneducated fool completely missed the reference… not a blue clue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-g0NGE9W8&ab_channel=GabrielUriarte
Oddly enough, Heinz used to (maybe they still do and I’ve blocked it out) sell Worcestershire sauce, at least here in Canada. A friend of mine had a bottle and I told him that, when he actually wanted to do things properly, Lea & Perrins was also readily available.
I came here looking for the Beans…Heart rhyme 🙂
There is the other one as well: Beans, beans, the magic fruit, the more you eat the more you toot.
Oh complete version
Oh we need a full different version
Beans beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel so eat some beans at every meal.
Beans beans good for your heart, the more you eat the more you fat. The more you fart the better you feel
So eat some beans at every meal
It’s better to let it it out and stink a little than hold it in and die a cripple
Oh man, cheese AND beans? I’m in.
“our Members Only peak at the behind-the-scenes goings-on“
“Peak”? Are you referring to the pants tent I got when I imagined Jason rolling around in that massive plate of beans on toast? Hey, don’t kink-shame. I LOVE beans on toast specifically and a full English breakfast in general. Mmmmmmmm…
He’s not who I think about rolling around in beans on toast:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fmultimedia%2Farchive%2F02746%2FSiouxsie-Sioux_2746052k.jpg&tbnid=-mYxN8kPClcJCM&vet=12ahUKEwjO0_vzvamEAxWadaQEHY4RAboQMygEegQIARA7..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ffoodanddrink%2Ffoodanddrinkpicturegalleries%2F10475062%2FRock-stars-and-their-favourite-foods.html&docid=MxpI60EPo-uYFM&w=858&h=536&q=siouxsie%20sioux%20beans%20on%20toast&hl=en-gb&client=safari&ved=2ahUKEwjO0_vzvamEAxWadaQEHY4RAboQMygEegQIARA7
I was wondering if you were going to go with Roger Daltrey…
Did the beans cause a backfire?
I’m sitting here, in my recently-received brand new Autopian shirt, eating a plate of Heinz beans and toast, reading about eating Heinz beans and toast on the Autopian.
I think I just blew my own mind…or maybe that was the beans.
Living the dream!
“Hey partner you gotta relax, don’t force it. You’re gonna blow your o-ring, drop a lung!”
Grab a hold of something, we’re gonna get through this!
Austin Powers movie?
Yep! International Man of Mystery.
You’re too meta for your own good.
Just a hypothetical question:
If beans blows your mind do you have your head up your ask me no more questions….
Probably most of the time.
And no damn smiley face?
It was a brainfart, obviously.