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Article: Baked, boiled, fried and now banned, beans amount to a hill of a staple diet
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 29, 1998
- Author:
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BAKED beans first came to Britain as very small tins of them, to
Fortnum & Mason no less. They were very expensive. In 1902 the
little tins came with tomato sauce and a small core of pork. They
came from the United States of America. Who was to know that they
would become a staple of the British diet? Who was to know that they
would become the staple of the underclass and indeed the British
joke?
The fact that beans produce zinc oxide and generally have to be
kept in water overnight and the resulting broth poured away has not
taken from the institution of them. For, despite what the English
football bosses have said to their players - they have banned baked
beans from their diets -baked ...