Food gets weird when societies are running low on it. The UK loves plain canned beans in tomato sauce, which afaik came out of wartime necessity. Biscuits and gravy have a similar history with wartime necessity from the US revolutionary war. Some populations eat SPAM way more than others due to its wartime benefit as basic canned protein becoming a cultural tradition where US troops were stationed.
yeah but have you ever had UK spec canned beans? those things are really good. Ive been annoyed half my life those exact beans are produced in Canada and exported under contract to the UK, the store beans we get here are shit, and there’s actually a black market gets UK spec canned beans back to canada, where they were fucking made.
I have not, tbh I’m not a huge fan of beans in tomato sauce. But I now will add “international black market bean smuggler” to my list of outlandish careers that I would try if the barrier to entry wasn’t so high.
Food gets weird when societies are running low on it. The UK loves plain canned beans in tomato sauce, which afaik came out of wartime necessity. Biscuits and gravy have a similar history with wartime necessity from the US revolutionary war. Some populations eat SPAM way more than others due to its wartime benefit as basic canned protein becoming a cultural tradition where US troops were stationed.
yeah but have you ever had UK spec canned beans? those things are really good. Ive been annoyed half my life those exact beans are produced in Canada and exported under contract to the UK, the store beans we get here are shit, and there’s actually a black market gets UK spec canned beans back to canada, where they were fucking made.
I have not, tbh I’m not a huge fan of beans in tomato sauce. But I now will add “international black market bean smuggler” to my list of outlandish careers that I would try if the barrier to entry wasn’t so high.