baked beans

[davewitley]

Rita wrote:

> 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'.

I meant to comment at the time but there wasn't time.

I'm puzzled over usage of 'haricot beans'.  Image Googling gives 
this British site:
http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/frameset/detail/101432.html
which corresponds to my expectations; and this Russian site:
http://www.gavrish.ru/products/haricotbeans_en.html
which looks like what Rita describes but not at all like haricot 
beans as I know them.

So what's American usage?  Are they pale and round or long and green?

Finally, I know Boston baked beans as a specific recipe that uses 
baked beans and the other ingredients Rita mentioned.

David