Actually,we're both mistaken.
The original advertising jingle went BEANZ MEANZ HEINZ ... which we all then corrupted to Beanz Meanz Fartz.

Beanz Meanz Heinz slogan was Minez

Mar 18 2005

Anna Morrell, Western Mail


A 10-YEAR-OLD boy with a passion for baked beans was the real brains behind one of the most famous advertising slogans of all time, it has been claimed.

But Jeff Bennett, now 58, says he doesn't approve of the way the multi-national company misspelt his original words to make "Beanz Meanz Heinz".

He reckons he's never been fully credited with creating the slogan, which won him a £100 voucher for London toy shop Hamleys in a Heinz treasure hunt competition back in 1957.

The honour has traditionally gone to Maurice Drake, then deputy creative director of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency. Legend has it he conceived the slogan in a London pub in 1967, a good decade after the young competition winner.

But the perceived slight hasn't put Jeff off Heinz beans. His allegiance runs deep and he has never bought beans from a rival manufacturer.

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A little splodge of HP sauce (one of the world's finest IMO) really makes it. I also like a well done fried egg in there to

An excellent snack!

Hmm beans on toast, never had it...but you guys are sure making me hungry.

A friend introduced me to the UK version of Heinz beans at a local grocery store about a year ago ... have had them in the house ever since. Much tastier than the US version, IMO. Great fall back when you're not hungry for a full meal.

Or alternatively a little Worcestershire sauce stirred through is good too.

You need a lot more than HP or Worcestershire sauce to make the vile tomato sauce edible.

The only way I ever enjoyed baked beans was when my mum made me this recipe:

Baked Beans Balti (on toast)

2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion peeled and chopped
1 green chilli, seeded and finely chopped
¼ tsp garam masala
¼ tsp ground cumin powder
¼ tsp ground coriander powder
400g/14oz can baked beans
A pinch of salt (optional)

Heat the oil in a small saucepan, then put in the onion. Fry for 1 minute, add the chilli and cook for a couple of minutes, stirring continuously, until the onions begin to turn golden brown. Add the spices and fry for another minute. Add the beans, reduce the heat and cook for 3 minutes. Taste, then season with salt, if necessary. Serve hot with chapatis, naan, pitta bread or just on toast.

It comes from Manju Malhi and a link to the recipe can be found here:
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/u...nju_malhi.html

(I think my mum added smoked paprika instead of the cumin)

Early supper for my bro & I when we were younger....

Toasted & buttered HOMEMADE sourdough bread (I wasn't even aware bread come in a sleeve until I was about 12) on a plate; top with
Heinz beans (Canadian variety ~ don't know/care how they stack against US or UK)

Knife and fork (fork tip: if the beans fall off the fork, mash them :p same with peas)

My kids loved the single serve zip top canned beans available in Australia.

Sorry to be churlish but the genius of beans on toast is its simplicity.
Too much fannying about with it and you lose the whole point - a simple feast prepared in just a couple of minutes.
It's like Marmite on toast ....
did anyone ever start a thread on the world's greatest breakfast snack.
Toast bread,thick layer of butter and then a dollop of Marmite while everything is still warm.
IMO Marmite is nearly as good as sex.

I like toasting bread, rubbing raw garlic on the surface, and drizzling with olive oil. Yum! :)

Cut a supremely ripe tomato in half and rub that over the toasted garlic bread with oil you described and that's something I'm happy to eat with beans of any kind.

True simplicity - without the E numbers.

What are E numbers?

Ah, these are the 'codes' used throughout the European Union for additives to food.

To be honest it was unfair to say this about Heinz Baked Beanz as the tinning process meanz they aren't really needed.

Apparantly the ingredients are these:
Beans (49%), Tomatoes (27%), Water, Sugar, Glucose-Frutose Syrup, Modified Cornflour, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Spice Extracts, Herb Extract

Have a look at any food products from Europe and most of them will have a series of E numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number helps explain them.
There was a real backlash against E numbers so many companies try and avoid having any where possible. In the past baked beanz might have had E1401 for 'modified starch' instead of modified cornflour, but the product is now 'natural' enough to get away with stating their ingredients and not listing any.

When I flew bmi in C a couple of years ago baked beans on toast was on the menu, I was nervous of someone sitting near me ordering it. The smell from the sauce is really unpleasant, the resulting exhaust fumes... just as bad. My husband is fully Britanicised - he loves them.

[QUOTE=magiciansampras;7854189]I saw a couple of pictures of beans on toast and it looks good. I've never had it! :eek:
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A cuisine marked by such indigestible glutinous contributors to the national flatulence (which once hung over London and the parking lots of roadside "cafs" like a green miasmic cloud) as "Beans on Toast" or "Toad in the Hole" or "Spotted Dick" was inevitably to fall in the face of invasion by those loud and kilted McDonalds, waving their golden arches about like newly-whetted claymores, and the massed regiments of turbaned curry-pirates and their peppery Vindaloos, finding the English easy targets, accustomed to dishes which could best be described as either gooey lumps rady to be doused in HP Sauce or other condiments from greasy fly-spotted containers in the midst of the table.

Oh, what a cultural and culinary descent.... From the zenith, Jack Aubrey's toasted cheese to the nadir, fried bread! At least the wily Scots ha' the decency to serve haggis securely hidden in the sheep's paunch. Were it an English kitchen, the cooks would simply fix it in a pot and slop it on your plate with a big spoon.

I have a Belgian crony who claims that British food is so bad that even the local habit of dousing much of it in vinegar doesn't hide the flavor or general lack of any.

I had beans on toast for breakfast so many times when I was younger that I'm sick of it now. I find it hard to imagine that some people could never have eaten it! I thought it was universal... that said, I thought cheese pasties and chip butties were universal too *grins*.

It's filling, it's easy, but it sure isn't a delicacy...

I'm not sure I understood most of that, but thanks for the info!