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T42

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1650 on: 30 November, 2020, 08:36:33 am »
It's not as if they are welded into a lump.

I used to get those mini boxes of raisins as a 'healthy' snack for my son* when he was tiny, and quite often they would come out as a solid lump.


*one for the 'middle-class parenting tips' thread, if there is such a thing

Coming out as a solid lump helps stop them ending up shoved up the child’s nose. Not lumpy enough ime.

I never shoved them up my kids' noses. Is this a modern part of "parenting"?
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1651 on: 30 November, 2020, 08:38:14 am »
Miss Dan the Elder managed all by herself.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1652 on: 30 November, 2020, 09:01:29 am »
We used to refill those little red boxes
I did that! And I used to refill fruit shoot bottles with supermarket apple and blackcurrent.
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T42

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1653 on: 30 November, 2020, 09:07:11 am »
Miss Dan the Elder managed all by herself.

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They grow up fast these days.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1654 on: 30 November, 2020, 11:18:00 am »
It's not as if they are welded into a lump.

I used to get those mini boxes of raisins as a 'healthy' snack for my son* when he was tiny, and quite often they would come out as a solid lump.


*one for the 'middle-class parenting tips' thread, if there is such a thing

Coming out as a solid lump helps stop them ending up shoved up the child’s nose. Not lumpy enough ime.

I never shoved them up my kids' noses. Is this a modern part of "parenting"?
That's working class parenting. Middle class parents make a carefully calculated decision that it is in their offspring's best long-term interests to learn to breathe through one nostril.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1655 on: 30 November, 2020, 12:49:29 pm »
I did that! And I used to refill fruit shoot bottles with supermarket apple and blackcurrent.

That's proper middle-class parenting.  ;D
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1656 on: 12 February, 2021, 07:33:47 pm »
o hai mr heinz!

I don’t know what you've done to your Reduced Salt & Sugar Snap-Pots of Baked Beanz, but lately they’ve taken to jumping out of the pot and all over the inside of the microwave.  Plz to put them back the way they used to be.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1657 on: 12 February, 2021, 07:35:59 pm »
o hai mr heinz!

I don’t know what you've done to your Reduced Salt & Sugar Snap-Pots of Baked Beanz, but lately they’ve taken to jumping out of the pot and all over the inside of the microwave.  Plz to put them back the way they used to be.

kthxbai
Meekro-Whave baked beenz?
Shirley not.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1658 on: 12 February, 2021, 08:01:57 pm »
o hai mr heinz!

I don’t know what you've done to your Reduced Salt & Sugar Snap-Pots of Baked Beanz, but lately they’ve taken to jumping out of the pot and all over the inside of the microwave.  Plz to put them back the way they used to be.

kthxbai
Meekro-Whave baked beenz?
Shirley not.

But yes!  They come in little plastic pots containing the equivalent of one (1) small tin of Beanz and have the advantage of not slicing the end off your finger when you rinse them out before bunging them in the recycling bin.  Peel back the top, nuke for eighty (80) seconds and a piping-hot serving of beany goodness is all yours.
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ian

Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1659 on: 12 February, 2021, 10:18:14 pm »
Beans in plastic. It's the Devil's work. Beans in cans. Beans in cans. BEANS IN CANS.

I ate a can on Sunday that was best before August 2018. But weren't we all.

fuzzy

Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1660 on: 12 February, 2021, 11:05:33 pm »
Heinz fucked their beans up a while ago. We have jumped ship to Branstons.

hellymedic

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1661 on: 12 February, 2021, 11:49:39 pm »
o hai mr heinz!

I don’t know what you've done to your Reduced Salt & Sugar Snap-Pots of Baked Beanz, but lately they’ve taken to jumping out of the pot and all over the inside of the microwave.  Plz to put them back the way they used to be.

kthxbai
Meekro-Whave baked beenz?
Shirley not.

We do meekro-Whave baked Beanz but get them out of an ordinary tin, into a ceramic bowl.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1662 on: 12 February, 2021, 11:50:26 pm »
But yes!  They come in little plastic pots containing the equivalent of one (1) small tin of Beanz and have the advantage of not slicing the end off your finger when you rinse them out before bunging them in the recycling bin.  Peel back the top, nuke for eighty (80) seconds and half a piping-hot serving of beany goodness is all yours.

FTFY

hellymedic

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1663 on: 12 February, 2021, 11:51:22 pm »
Beans in plastic. It's the Devil's work. Beans in cans. Beans in cans. BEANS IN CANS.

I ate a can on Sunday that was best before August 2018. But weren't we all.

Iron Man...

Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1664 on: 13 February, 2021, 01:58:36 am »
Beans in plastic. It's the Devil's work. Beans in cans. Beans in cans. BEANS IN CANS.

I ate a can on Sunday that was best before August 2018. But weren't we all.

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1665 on: 13 February, 2021, 11:39:39 am »
Burns a shirt, marks a skirt,
Makes a hole in your trousers pert
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1666 on: 13 February, 2021, 11:40:30 am »
Heinz fucked their beans up a while ago. We have jumped ship to Branstons.
Shall look out for them.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1667 on: 13 February, 2021, 06:43:53 pm »
o hai mr heinz!

I don’t know what you've done to your Reduced Salt & Sugar Snap-Pots of Baked Beanz, but lately they’ve taken to jumping out of the pot and all over the inside of the microwave.  Plz to put them back the way they used to be.

kthxbai
Meekro-Whave baked beenz?
Shirley not.

But yes!  They come in little plastic pots containing the equivalent of one (1) small tin of Beanz and have the advantage of not slicing the end off your finger when you rinse them out before bunging them in the recycling bin.  Peel back the top, nuke for eighty (80) seconds and a piping-hot serving of beany goodness is all yours.
Is the little plastic pot the convenience food equivalent of a ramekin, the uber-poncy way of serving beans?
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1668 on: 13 February, 2021, 08:21:55 pm »
I've always prefered Branston, from the days they were Cross and Blackwell
Beans and sauce properly distinguishable
With Heinz the sauce and beans sort of merge into a sticky oneness.

hellymedic

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1669 on: 13 February, 2021, 09:49:18 pm »
Crosse and Blackwell/Branston drift in and out of Nestlé, which I try (and fail) to avoid.

Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1670 on: 14 February, 2021, 10:28:47 am »
Branston belongs to Mizkan now. Most of the brand crossovers are just licensing - but Branston beans are still made by Premier Foods at Sutton  and they have the pickle spice recipe from when they owned Branston.
To my knowledge, Nestle have never owned Branston Pickle.


hellymedic

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1671 on: 14 February, 2021, 06:09:03 pm »
Branston belongs to Mizkan now. Most of the brand crossovers are just licensing - but Branston beans are still made by Premier Foods at Sutton  and they have the pickle spice recipe from when they owned Branston.
To my knowledge, Nestle have never owned Branston Pickle.

It seems they did until 2004, which is not yesterday.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_(brand)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosse_%26_Blackwell

ian

Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1672 on: 15 February, 2021, 10:32:13 am »
Beans in plastic. It's the Devil's work. Beans in cans. Beans in cans. BEANS IN CANS.

I ate a can on Sunday that was best before August 2018. But weren't we all.

Iron Man...

At some point this week I plan to make homemade baked beans with veggie sausages. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to fly once I've eaten that.

hellymedic

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1673 on: 15 February, 2021, 10:23:35 pm »
Beans in plastic. It's the Devil's work. Beans in cans. Beans in cans. BEANS IN CANS.
I ate a can on Sunday that was best before August 2018. But weren't we all.
Iron Man...
At some point this week I plan to make homemade baked beans with veggie sausages. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to fly once I've eaten that.

Blast off!

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1674 on: 15 February, 2021, 11:08:20 pm »
Beans in plastic. It's the Devil's work. Beans in cans. Beans in cans. BEANS IN CANS.
I ate a can on Sunday that was best before August 2018. But weren't we all.
Iron Man...
At some point this week I plan to make homemade baked beans with veggie sausages. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to fly once I've eaten that.

Blast off!

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