There's a difference

Why is it that everything on this platform is about Linux, Star Trek and beans?

Is there more to life?
- Watching Barbie, now available on Blu-Ray, of course!
- Endless bean content
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqzIvdEo4U&t=0
We sometimes talk about not pooping...
- Well, have I got a solution for you. Have you ever heard of beans?
- That guy, Mizu, deleted his account...
Thank you Margot you bring a light to this beanchamber
- It's bean pretty fun. 🫘
Free market doing its job, baby!
Wait, are you saying other things exist?
- Lies

Beans (Japanese sweets)

As a Latino, the first time trying sweet beans in a pastry was so alarming. I still don't like them, it's so weird. Now sweet, fried plantains with a side of refried beans and avocado? Yes please!
- Avocado shake was strange to me as well but it's not bad
- What? Red bean paste filling is one of the most delicious mochi fillings! Don´t be a bean Nazi.
Are they real beans that taste sweet or sweats that look like beans?
- Red Bean Paste. It's often sweetened and used as a filling in a lot of Japanese pastries and desserts.
Hmm, maybe somewhere in between?
An acquaintance of mine bought an ice cream in china thinking it to be grapes or something, but it was bean ice cream, they were pretty shocked. But anyway sweet bean paste in pastry is really good, and seems to be popular in all of the Asia

Beans (the furry kind)

UwU
- HЯ~

Frijoles>beans

Not when I was stocking them. People got sooooooooooooooooo mad that they couldn't find the "beans".
- looks at a label with a big picture of beans on it
  No, no this can't be it!

Beans, Beans,
they’re a hit!
The more you eat,
the more you shit!
The more you shit,
the better you feel,
so eat beans for every meal!

Beans, Beans, The magical fruit, The more you eat, The more you toot, The more you toot, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!
- Beans, Beans, They're good for your heart, The more you eat, The more you fart, The more you fart, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!
England: "...and I took that personally."

Beans (Jelly)

People shit on British food and come over here and make out its the best thing ever.

I couldn't convince my girlfriend to try my pie with veggies and fat chips all covered in gravy. Then she ate it and said "actually that's really nice".

Like of course its a pie covered in gravy!

"british food" has come to mean "british food from ration times", which is obviously going to result in it being dogshit because people had to stretch a hunk of ham over an entire week.
I can taste how much butter you put in the dough
- No, that's French cooking ;)
- Go look at any chef making food.
  He's an American chef making carrots.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YUeEknfATJ0
And traditional dishes like corned beef and cabbage. I love me some corned beef with lots of mustard. And cabbage, you can eat it by the head and it has so few calories plus it has lots of vit c and fiber. It is excellent diet food.
I think it's more of a meme than real at this point. Most of the time when I see "British food", I think it looks pretty good, even if it's not flashy.
Always cracks me up when Americans diss British food. Many have no idea how many American staple foods originate from Britain, especially in the Midwest.
I mean, it's the best thing available
There is great english food. It's just that your average brit ain't making it either. Ive been to Bournemouth on a school language program several times and we had amazing Yorkshire Pudding and more good stuff once. But we also had Microwaved raw Broccoli with soggy disgusting Pizza another time.
Also: You guys have an unhealthy obsession with vinegar.
- Vinegar is better than salt or fat.
  Vinegar is fucking awesome. Can't have chips without it. Its just wrong.
The UK has some of the best produce in the world. What the average person at home does is of course something else but that's no different in a lot of countries.
As someone mentioned rationing didn't help the image but also the drabness of industrial canned food in the brown seventies. And people just forgot how to cook.

Beans (asturian* food):

*One of Spain's northern regions

(Viva la fabada)

Wow it's so beautiful I had to google Asturias to confirm it's real.
- wait till you learn about the song of the same name....
- its proto-taumalipas
Qué haces en Tus ratos libres?

American: Beans with your eggs and bacon? Disgusting.

proceeds to slop more sand textured corn porridge on plate

Grits are mostly a southern thing. That said, they are absolutely awful IMO. I'd sooner try British beans with my breakfast.
You can't have Mexican food without hominy.
- Hominy hominy 😉

Off topic, but yesterday I tried a tamale for the first time. Apparently they're a common Christmas food in Mexico, so my boss brought some to our party. The first bite or two were strange (as a very picky US-American), but then it was really good! 10/10 would recommend and all that

this comment actually made me upset I've realized we're halfway through December and I haven't had tamales yet

Best use of my pressure cooker*! Bulk black and pinto beans, 40m in the cooker with water and salt, then onto the stove with sauteed onions and garlic, a fair amount of oil, apple cider vinegar, pickled jalapeno or two, spices... absolutely fantastic with some rice. And our toddler loves it too.

*Instant Pot, but pressure cooker sounds more... haute cuisine.

Beans (The java + spring kind)

British people also have mashed peas as their guacamole-but-not.

And yet if a fancy restaurant does pea puree, people are all over it.
Mushy peas are made from a specific variety (marrowfat) that were selectively bred to be softer and have a nicer texture when pureed. People are just snobby about it, baked beans, and food like it because it's working class food, without being fetishised 'exotic' working class food.
- I imagine here in the US people would think pea puree was too much like baby food. Of course, if you've ever tried baby food, some of it is pretty darn good, so. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I just had baked beans on toast with eggs today. Made them myself with onions, mushrooms, garlic, smoked paprika powder, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon and a shot of maple syrup. It tasted great and I am not even English.

I would try this if I weren't a) a bad cook and b) terrified
Well you used spices and things with flavor, so it's not very British.
- If you're going to ignore the entirety of British-indian cuisine, then Americans really shouldn't be calling Mexican food their tastiest creation.
- Are you not aware that a British national dish is Chicken tikka masala?

Corn is the same. I prefer the pale non-sweet corn from Mexico much more.

Elote with the flaming Cheetos crumbles on top...
Bixby corn from Oklahoma. The only good thing from that jesustan hellscape.

And then there's Southern American, Beans, hamhock, bacon, onions, cornbread. Amazing meal in the winter.

Baked beans are top tier, tasty and good for protein. Also good for farting.

Same thing with rice.

Don't knock baked beans.

I was just looking up recipes for them last night. Thinking of trying my hand at homemade.

Haven't been much of a cook in a while, but for some reason the part of my brain that recalls these things really wants me to suggest using a pressure cooker for beans. I honestly don't know if that's a good idea. I apologize for this information.
- Definitely pressure cookers are great for just getting them cooked from dried. I do it with black beans and it takes about 40 min. It is a huge time saver vs the old way. I wouldn't do that here though because there is a browning of the top involved and time spent simmering in the sauce that you need and you won't get that with a pressure cooker.

Rod looking high af in that photo

Having lived in the UK and near the US southern border, they’re both great. Charro and frijoles are sublime, and Heinz baked beans are a superb side dish for potato or meat.

I still can’t enjoy sweet BBQ beans though, Bush’s just tastes like corn syrup with fiber blobs 🤮

I hate Bush's baked beans. They taste.. chalky. It's Van Kamp or nothing in my household.
No, no, Heinz beans are tasteless shite. You wanna go with branston baked beans instead. More flavour and cheaper.

And then there’s horse beans. If you don’t know, google it! For funzies!

As a Vermonter that's been told that we have a lot of British influences I'm surprised beens are not common in our diet. Like the only times I've ever had the chance to eat beens is when their mashed up for the 2 times I've had tacos. Tbh I didn't even know the Brits even had beens. Granted I'm presuming they are common over there due to the context of this meme.

Then there's beans, Québec maple style.

It's similar to British baked beans, but baked with lard and maple syrup.

Nothing can match that.

Actually...

Leave my baked beans alone!

Well, yeah. One of them has flavor.

Actually accurate given the end result of this episode.

Mexican beans pale in comparison the majesty of the British baked bean.

Maybe if you've only had Mexican food made in Britain? Baked beans are good but relatively one dimensional. In Mexico, beans, rice, and corn are the staples of most meals. They're eating them at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Children have mashed beans and rice as their first solid food.
Do you think British people eat baked beans with every meal? They do in Mexico. They obviously make them in better and more varied ways.
- No I've been to Mexico. They don't even put their beans on toast 0/10 shit tier beans.
This really isn't up for debate. Frijoles always win.
- Do frijoles come with little pork sausages in them? No? Then they are trash.

I'm pretty sure beans are neither Mexican or British. They are a type of raw ingredient

Actually, funnily enough, the common bean originated in Mesoamerica.
They're prepared differently. Don't usually see baked beans of any kind in Mexican cuisine, just like you don't see a lot of refried beans in British cuisine.