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On 24/11/2005, "candace" <candace@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: >americans are weirded out by having BEANS with breakfast. or on toast. or >on baked potatoes. it is exceptionally bizarre at breakfast and i just >recently came around to the idea. that whole fried tomato thing is still >not on, though. Not just Americans. Us Aussies think the stuff you put on jacket potatoes are just plain odd. Beans even more so as you're putting something starchy on something starchy. Now if you want a nice topping for a baked spud, what's wrong with sour cream and chives? >anyway, baked beans in the states are disgusting since they make them >sweet with "brown sugar" (probably corn syrup more like). Not keen on the classic Heinz-style baked beans really. Don't like them as they're weirdly sweet. Made from the dregs of a boiled chicken, with some seasoning, they're wonderful. A friend has a fabulous dutch oven camping recipe that involves cooking some chickens for dinner, then leaving the pot on with beans over the dying embers so they'll be ready for breakfast. Leftover chilli beans + egg is my favourite, and most effective short of hair, hangover cure. >as for sweet + savoury in british food: >coronation chicken. Ugh. That's up there with salad cream and baked potato with tuna mayonnaise in the "disgusting weird shit the Brits eat" category.=20 Reminds me of this article from the Observer: "Englishmen, on the whole, are wonderfully easy to cook for. Despite the foodie revolution that supposedly means the English can distinguish Pugliese from Ligurian olive oil at a single whiff, the legacy of the school dinner lives on, and English guys' culinary expectations remain reassuringly low. As with sex, they are so delightfully charmed to be getting any at all that you can serve them boil-in-the-bag cod and they'll carry on like you're Nigella Lawson if they think there's a chance of getting laid." http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,9950,1214924,00.htmlThere's stuff above here
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