The Baked Beans Incident, aka, Grocery Shopping In America

[ailsa_cf]

One of the challenges of this year has been living in a dorm, sharing a 'kitchen' with 4 floors of students & one tiny microfridge with my roommate. I'm used to having a kitchen in the apartment, shared with 3-4 other people and just a few steps from my room. Nevertheless, I was determined not to get a meal plan where I'd be paying a minimum of $9

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[gillpolack]

There's history in them thar beans! Seriously, colonial recipes had bits of bacon grease in them, or lots of pork, or sweetener, or all of the above. The tins reflect that. I wanted to taste them in the US< but the bacon was an issue 9and the pork) and so I consoled myself with trialling 3 different historical recipes. This is when I realised what you got straight away: these are not naked beans as we know them.

[ailsa_cf]

Oh that's interesting *g* It was just a bit strange when I was looking for something (I thought) plain, and familiar. The times I've felt most like I'm somewhere other than Britain on this whole experience have been when I'm in a grocery store, trying to find something familiar, and end up noticing lots of little differences that all add up at once. But if that's been the worst of it, I suppose that's a good things. *g*

[eneit]

American friends who have emigrated out to here tell me how they can't believe we don't have this or that, it becomes such a point of discontentment for them that they find themselves almost grieving for the food items they can't get.