Life with two kids: Sausage and beans

[andrewducker]

Jane and I are at Mortonhall Garden Centre with Gideon for breakfast before heading off to the Royal Highland Show when Sophia gets out of school at midday.

Me: Gideon, do you want your usual sausage and beans?
Gideon: No.
Me: How about the French toast? You've never had that before.
Gideon: Yes please.

Gideon: refuses to eat the French toast.
Gideon also: steals all of the beans and sausage from both of our cooked breakfasts.
Me: I'm telling the internet about this!

Comments

[gingicat]

Are these beans akin to Boston baked beans, or something else? And is it a Scottish thing?

[andrewducker]

British baked beans are not the same as American baked beans. More than that I don't know I'm afraid!

[cmcmck]

They are related but are a commercial version containing just haricot beans and tomato sauce. They arrrived here during WW2 as part of the supplies for rations both civilian and military that the US sent the UK and they caught on big time and became part of the traditional big breakfast.

[gingicat]

Interesting, thank you!

[foms]

Here, in Canada, I am left confused. I have made both kinds of baked beans and I don't recall ever seeing an offering of canned baked beans that didn't have both.

A quick comparison of ingredients from Tesco (UK), Loblaws (Canada), and Star Market (the last supermarket at which I recall shopping, in the Boston area) leads me to the idea that the tomato-based sauce for canned baked beans is similar across the board but definitely goes from less sugar to more sugar respectively.

[calimac]

10 or 15 years or so from now you will have your revenge when this terribly embarrasses him.

[zz]

on his way to being a stereotypical "i don't want anything *steals your food*" girlfriend one day :D