PrintSo good that I eat it from the container ...
Okay, this occured to me last night, since I ran into something that I have dreamed about for two and a half years. When I lived in the UK I had the opportunity to indulge in one of my favorite things - Heinz baked beans. Not the American version, with maple syrup or bacon or anything like that. Just a little salt and tomato sauce. Perfect! I loved it there so much that I ate it straight out of the tin!
Well, moving back to the US, I couldn't find it anywhere...except finally, after so long, on the bottom shelf of a supermarket. I bought two, and proceeded to eat one (again) right out of the tin....
So, the question is...what have you eaten or continue to eat, that is simply so good that you don't even bother taking it out of the packaging, but just indulge from its container?
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28 Comments:
If it's the Heinz baked beans I think you are talking about Cost Plus World Market carries them. I should know, I stocked and took care of the gourmet dept. in my home town for 6 years and they always sold quickly!
evilchefmom at 11:46AM on 01/14/08
Lots of things. Sometimes it's something I'm dishing up, and that last little bit from the container goes straight to my mouth. Other times it's something in a small container, or I'm the only one who's going to eat it anyway, so it just seems silly to transfer it.
Cottage cheese
Ice cream (in pint containers -- I only eat a few bites at a time)
Refried beans
Tuna
Sneaked bites of cold leftovers
There may be others, but that's what readily comes to mind.
When I was a kid, and I actually liked such things, I used to eat Spaghetti-Os and raviolis right out of the can.
Is anybody old enough to remember when nobody though twice about eating a cold hot dog straight out of the package?
LoCo at 11:52AM on 01/14/08
I couldn't believe my luck! Well, I didn't find mine there, but now that I know that they carry it, I will head there next! Thanks!
Traveller at 11:52AM on 01/14/08
Sometimes I eat spaghettios. Sometimes I eat a few spoonfulls straight from the can.
While babysitting as a young teenager, one of my charges grabbed an uncooked hod dog out of the fridge and started eating it. I freaked out and called my mom who assured me it would be ok.
Kerosena at 12:23PM on 01/14/08
Yeah I'd probably eat baked beans out of a can too.
Though not all at one time but I like to eat peanut butter and nutella right out of the container by the spoonfuls.
Gordon Mark at 12:35PM on 01/14/08
Ben & Jerry's
Haagen-Dasz
Dove Ice Cream
Cottage chese.
Kozy Shack Tapioca
Traveller: Have you tried the Heinz Vegetarian Beans? They're the closest to the Brit version. Serve them on toast, BTW.
RichardCrystal at 12:39PM on 01/14/08
BTW, LoCo: When I learned that hot dogs were the same as bologna, about age 5, I began taking them out of the package and double-dipping (YES, DOUBLE DIPPING!!) them in mustard.
RichardCrystal at 12:41PM on 01/14/08
Ice cream (of course)
Crunchy PB
Sun-dried tomatoes (in oil)...I know...weird...
Garbanzo beans
sheldel at 12:50PM on 01/14/08
Cottage cheese on Utz super dark pretzels
merry at 12:57PM on 01/14/08
I eat my nana's homemade pickles straight from the jar. I am also bad about ice cream, as others have mentioned. LoCo-I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who sneaks cold leftovers-they are my fave!!
psychsarah at 12:59PM on 01/14/08
Oh, yeah, those were the ones that I was talking about. I didn't realize that they even made a version in the UK that wasn't vegetarian. Those are the only ones that I ever bought. It was like Heaven! I am actually dreaming of them right now! :)
And yes, spaghettios right out of the can. I still do that. The whole thing, too, just like the beans!
Traveller at 1:15PM on 01/14/08
I munch on cookie bits out of the jar/bag they're in. And the PB scooping, as well as ice cream scooping. I also have a habit of grabbiung handfuls of cereal out of the box. My weirdest one is probably eating spoonfuls of salsa (particularly black bean) out of the jar.
luswim06 at 2:41PM on 01/14/08
It's funny, I was just telling my husband yesterday that I had an immense craving for Heinz baked beans ("just regular white beans with tomato sauce", I had to explain), and I was reminiscing how I used to eat them either straight out of the tin or fried with some eggs, and concluded that he has got to find me a few tins ASAP:-). What supermarket did you find yours in, Traveller?
brooke29 at 3:32PM on 01/14/08
Love the question::) I eat cottage cheese out of those 8 oz. containers, a spoonful of peanut butter straight from the jar and of course Fage 2% which is typically considered a single-serving anyway! Oh, and Haagen-Dazs on occasion:)
JEP at 4:20PM on 01/14/08
PB and Nutella, of course! Also, pickled okra from Wheelhouse Pickles, a local Brooklyn company that makes amazing pickled everything (http://wheelhousepickles.com/). I swear, they could pickle shoelaces and they'd be delicious. But I think the okra is the best.
CookiePie at 4:56PM on 01/14/08
Any of you looking for the British version of Heinz Baked Beans should try the following:
British American Imports, 726 15th Street, San Francisco CA 94103; 415-863-3300
British Imports of Plymouth, 1 Court Street, Plymouth MA 02360; 877-264-8586
Made in Britain, Ltd., Main Street Shops, Egg Harbour, Door County WI 54209; 888-223-1236
Myers of Keswick, 634 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014; 212-691-4194
Tea & Sympathy, 108 Greenwich Avenue, New York NY 10011; 212-989-9735
You Say Tomato, 1526 California Street, San Francisco CA 94109; 415-921-2828
It's probably not the most geographically diverse list, but there you go. There's also a longer list of British food purveyors in the U.S. at BritainUSA.com
Adam Kuban at 4:57PM on 01/14/08
Peanut butter all the time straight out of the jar. Also cold hot dogs were the only way I used to eat them, I don't know if I would now though, may have to give it a try.
Sarahrm at 5:01PM on 01/14/08
A jar of King's Cupboard triple chocolate frosting rarely actually makes it onto a cake in my house. First I have a polite spoonful from the jar to make sure it's as good as I remembered. Then, another spoonful because it is. And so it goes...
elizabethw at 5:16PM on 01/14/08
Besides ice cream; Marshmallow Fluff
SavtaShayna at 5:18PM on 01/14/08
Ice cream -- usually when I serve my husband I have a few bites instead of eating a bowl full; peanut butter; chocolate frosting; and I agree with the handful of cereal right from the box!
misseditor at 6:12PM on 01/14/08
nutella
ventresca
mandarin oranges
thegreatlumpia at 8:26PM on 01/14/08
When I was a broke college student sometimes I would eat green peas right out of the can for dinner.
Gayngry at 8:28PM on 01/14/08
when i was younger, my mom would make kimchi, and i love sneaking a few pieces straight from the jar. yumm
mochateri at 9:50PM on 01/14/08
olives
PerkyMac at 9:58PM on 01/14/08
It's funny that so many of us have the same ones...great minds think alike!
I too do it with peanut butter, ice cream, cottage cheese, handfuls of cereal and I ALWAYS sneak bites of cold leftovers...why do I feel the need to sneak them? No one ever eats them but me anyway.
I do it with green olives, only because I was never allowed to eat them when I was a kid (they were my dad's only, for whatever reason!) and now I associate them with that memory and eat the whole thing myself and sometimes even the olive juice, is that weird? Ah well, who cares?
radley24 at 10:32PM on 01/14/08
Nutella.
I also dip (when desperately hungry and cannot wait) crackers into jars of spaghetti sauce.
moibec at 11:07PM on 01/14/08
i consider a shell to be a container and my favorite is fresh, salty, cold, raw oysters. new tires for my truck and raw oyster have something in common, they ain't pretty but i gotta have em.
olddad at 8:02PM on 01/15/08
besides the things people already named, i really looooove sweet canned corn oh and hearts of palm
sustarz at 1:31AM on 01/16/08