On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 4:08:04 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> The Science channel has a series called Super Factories. The particular
> episode I'm watching has a segment on the Heinz factory in the UK. They
> do canned beans there. They make 4500 cans per minute, about 4 million
> cans a day. 1200 tons of dried beans are shipped in every week.
>
> Each bean is inspected by lasers and split beans or pebbles are rejected
> but not wasted. They become fertilizer.
>
> Tomato paste comes from Spain, Italy, California Same spices since 1892
> are added. Beans are cooked in the can using rotary steam cookers.
>
> If you are looking for it on cable, it is episode 3 and will repeat or
> be available on demand. The title is NASA Rocket Factory.

The Brits are truly into canned beans.

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