The British eat 97 % of the world’s baked beans (fact).
Baked beans are very Epicurean. They should be eaten at dead of night by torchlight under the blankets in boarding school dormitories. Eaten at breakfast time they are the wrong color and are boring.
Epicurus himself would have been a baked bean lover. This is because he was so cerebral and pre-preoccupied with thought that opening a can would have been convenient to him. Other people in his Garden might have contented themselves with some of his olives.
Baked beans “should be eaten at dead of night by torchlight under the blankets.” Yeah? In what Zip Code does this go on? That tidbit aside, and some disagreement over the correct color for beans-at-breakfast–what an informative post.
Baked beans are eaten mainly in the UK. The British have to have something about them that is not borrowed from America, even if baked beans are American.
Within two weeks of some valley girl inventing the irritating expression “no problem” it was being used by every waitress and shop girl in Britain. A really useful export. The British people have sadly decided not to think for themselves , but to let the thinking be done by US think-tanks. Which explains why their economy is such a mess.