baked beans

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

David Frankis wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/24638 on October
7 (I'm trying to catch up):
> 
> Surely this type of beans is an American recipe?  As in, Heinz Meanz 
> Beanz, and cowboys round the campfire with a pan, and so on.  Don't 
> you call them baked beans like we do?

American baked beans (often called "Boston baked beans" despite their
stong connotations of cowboys on the trail eating around a campfire)
don't resemble Sarah's explanation of haricot beans in tomato sauce.
They're some other kind of bean (navy? pinto?) in molasses sauce with
a bit of salt pork (or bacon) added. I have read that what we now call
'Boston baked beans' used to be called 'pease porridge'.

I'm so old that I still call haricot beans 'string beans' even tho'
their name has been changed to 'green beans'.