Baked Beans & Caviar: What Movie?
Slightly strange question, but I'm hoping my fellow food obsessed will know what I'm talking about...
I recall watching a movie (comedy, maybe from the mid to late 80s?) where there's a scene, the protagonist is a classic buffoon. Goes to a party where there is a tin of super expensive caviar and for some reason, decides to add a tin of baked beans on top of it, much to the absolute horror of the host...
(I could be wrong: this could be from a tv show, and it could be ketchup on foie gras or pate, but the more I think about it, the more certain I am that it was baked beans on caviar, because there was a horror-related-to-cost issue...)
So my question is: does anyone remember this movie? What it's called, who's in it? Thanks :)
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7 Comments:
Are you sure it's not Tom Hanks in the cocktail party scene in Big? No baked beans involved, but definitely caviar.
jlbrach at 4:50PM on 11/17/08
I have no specific idea why, but your question brings Uncle Buck to my mind.
renzata at 7:54PM on 11/17/08
@jlbrach - yep, positive, the image in my head is a buffoon crashing a party, not really a less-than-knowledgeable kid (plus he just spits it out in a napkin).
@renzata - yeah, I get the feeling it's Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Candy, one of those people. Maybe even Rodney Dangerfield? I feel like it's a big guy though... in a classic normal-guy-comes-into-contact-with-money kind of way. I don't know. I wish I knew =(
feistyfoodie at 11:36PM on 11/17/08
I'm thinking that it's Rodney Dangerfield in the beginning of Back to School. I could be wrong, but I remember one of his movies opening with a very posh party at his house and his wife being horrified at his behavior--scooping out a loaf of french bread and packing it full of meats and cheeses and for some reason I'm thinking that there's something with caviar there.
dhorst at 9:35AM on 11/18/08
The spitting-out makes me think 'Big'; I have no recollection of baked beans, but I sort of blocked the movie out, since I was working as an usher at the time, and saw the thing about a million times.
The spitting stuck in my head, because it was so shocking to me (I've been raised to believe that spitting out food in front of others is hanging offense) that the scene burned itself into my brain. I believe he wipes his tongue off with a napkin, after spitting out the caviare.
mongoose at 9:59AM on 11/18/08
@ mongoose - oops, I meant in Big, he spits it out, he doesn't put anything on the caviar though - though a kid putting ketchup on it would be a funny image. In the movie I'm thinking of, I specifically remember the baked beans/tin of something on top of caviar, but nothing else, don't recall seeing anyone eating it.
feistyfoodie at 12:09PM on 11/19/08
It's not that scene in You've Got Mail where Meg Ryan is giving Tom Hanks what-for about scooping all the caviar garnish of the buffet display at a party? He gives her a dirty look and scoops a whole bunch more onto his plate?
LoCo at 12:37PM on 11/19/08