Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 13:10:45 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
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>> On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 7:24:23 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> https://sfae.com/ECommerceSite/files...a5e2d3dd99.jpg
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>>> Lol D. loves them, me, not so much)
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>> I don't know if your canned beans are similar in taste as American canned beans. Our canned beans are kind of bland. My guess is that the Brits found their taste for canned beans during WWII. It never really caught on in Hawaii though Spam certainly did. Funny how that works out.
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> Maybe the beans weren't unhealthy enough.
>

During WWII, the dutch sure learned to sniff american asses.