I would like to know exactly who the target audience is, who pays to listen to classical music and then drowns it all out by blowing a whistle. Just so that I can avoid them generally in life.
That chap in the Heinz beans advert annoyed me within the first 10 seconds (yes, that long), the first time I saw it. In spite of my best efforts the adverts do slip through now and again. When my OH saw it, he said "No wonder he's holidaying on his own". I confess to liking the Haribo advert with the 2 policemen "talking" in children's voices. My late Mum had dementia,and for some reason this really made her smile. It was shown a lot after she died and I found it really bittersweet. To get back on topic, later Haribo adverts using the same technique drove me crazy as I couldn't make out a word they were saying, unlike the police one .
I've not seen this Heinz advert... but then, I barely watch TV at all. Heinz own tins are enough to persuade me not to buy their products if at all possible as the ruddy things won't stack!
Todays Heinz Beans are nothing like the original. Watching one of the "Inside the Factory" programmes ( always interesting if you could ignore the presenter ) which dealt with the Heinz beans production reminded me how much they had changed. I always have a book to hand when watching TV, mute the ads when they come on and read. I glance at the screen occasionally in order that I can put the sound back on when the ads are finished. I'm obviously not missing much.
Branston - far superior to Heinz. Or, there is a good recipe (Hairy Bikers, I think.. or Tom Kerridge) that you can make your own.
I only buy small tins of beans, and Branston dont seem to make them, or at least where I go doesn't sell them, so I tend to buy Heinz, never use them as straight out the tin, usually pour some bacon fat in with them, of just put them in the pan with the bacon, also livened up with an OXO for more flavour or Marmite if you like that.
I sometimes make Boston Baked Beans with haricot beans, tinned tomato, a bacon shank, muscavado sugar, Worcester sauce and a bay leaf: soak and cook the beans, then put the beans the cooking water and other ingredients into an ovenproof casserole and cook for two to three hours at 150°C until the bacon is falling off the bone.
If you only use half a tin, the other half can go in the freezer. It works out cheaper and there is less tin to recycle.
I've never thought of freezing them, I guess that would work but my freezer is pretty full, and there would be me opening a new can and not finding the frozen ones until I put the new ones in the freezer. Also the real pain with frozen stuff is you have to plan hours ahead, to get it thawed out. The tin will be recycled because its already been made, whatever I use.
I have a list stuck on the freezer door that tells me what is in there and on which shelf. I also have a biro on a string which is taped onto the door beside the list so that I can amend it from time to time. Not beautiful but it does save me wondering what happened to that Parmesan cheese rind I froze six months ago and so on.
Ah, right. Different. I put stuff in and take stuff out about once a fortnight. Mostly eat fresh stuff. Freezer is for moments of “oh gawd, what am I going to make for a meal?”
90% of the time I remember what is in the freezer. But mostly make meals from fresh stuff. Just finished food shopping for this week. We are all good for a long time.
Our groceries get delivered tomorrow @redstar so we're good for a week. I'm stingy with my Heinz baked beans, we have half a tin between the two of us and I freeze the other half. Lakeland Plastics do a nifty small size freezer pot with two different lids, one for microwaving and one for freezing. I use those most of the time to save left overs.
