Should they describe this menu item better

I would assume baked beans meant normal baked beans from a tin.

My child with autism would be unlikely to eat fancy baked beans and would have been very disappointed.

I think, unless you're in a restaurant where you would expect chef fresh made food, that most people would be thinking it's from a tin of Heinz or similar. The menu or staff should have given enough information for you to know what you were going to get.

I also haven't eaten tinned beans outside of my house as I have a full breakfast with no beans and if I have a jacket potatoe my go to is cheese and coleslaw, we do eat baked beans but my aspergers partner will only eat Branston and can't guarantee brand outside of home , but the sort of cafes and restaurants we go to wouldn't do home made spicy baked beans any way

Yes I'd have assumed baked beans meant normal heinz style tinned beans but he still had toast and sausage so I don't see what massive difference having the beans would have made?

If you’re such a fussy eater that homemade baked beans need a trigger warning, why even bother eating out?

Oh god, homemade baked beans. Have they nothing better to do? YANBU.

Where is the pure saltless boiled food of yesteryear?

Lol
I suppose your precious toddler would've just got on with it eh

Yeah, that lie destroys my trust that is anything but a Wetherspoons promo or summat

It is not an angle.
Leaen to recognise propaganda.

Then you've never eaten a full English in a caff or a Wetherspoon's or ordered beans on toast for a child at a soft play centre?

My congratulations.

No. I’ve never been served canned beans outside of home. Ever. My mum purchased tinned beans from the supermarket for emergency meals, and when I went to uni I would buy tinned beans at times and eat straight from the can, so I know what they taste like, but as an adult, or child I have never had them served to me otherwise.

Another batshit crazy thread. Everyone knows what to expect when 'baked beans' appear on a menu. Something out of a tin, maybe Heinz but in all probability a cheaper version from a big tin. Everyone knows that if they were hand-crafted, spiced, the chef's special recipe baked beans it would say so on the menu. Everyone apart from a surprising number of MNetters anyway.😂

Where allergies are concerned, the onus is on you to check before you order though. And I say that as someone with a long list of life threatening allergies. I get that it is a pain when something sounds simple, but you should always check.

I am with you OP. A little while ago I ordered macaroni cheese for my grandson. When it arrived the sauce was strongly flavoured with mustard and the top liberally spinkled with paprika. 4 year old grandson who will try most things was not impressed. Sent it back and ordered something else.
To be clear this was from the children's menu and I had ordered the smaller portion for younger children. No mention of mustard or paprika!

I didn't miss the point. Introducing new foods at that age tends to mean the child gets used to different foods.

I bet you have. What do you think gets served up with the good old English breakfast? Or if you order beans on toast... or beans with anything really. I've been there and cooked it. 😂
Op, you aren't unreasonable. I'm sure that the majority of British people would expect conventional baked beans if they ordered a meal including them in a cafe.

You spectacularly missed the point.

he put something in his mouth that looked familiar, but didn't taste 'right' so as a 1 year old he did as our bodies are designed to do, to keep us safe & spat them out.

Mine was exactly the same. She always had the same as us, and would eat most things by 18 months

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if I asked around here, they'd look at me gone out & probably be calling the local MH service! 🤣🤣

Mine were eating curry and chilli con carne at 1. They ate what we ate, just a bit more smashed up.

Wtf is with all the posters marching along to say they've never known tinned baked beans to be served in a café 🤣

Absolute peak Mumsnet wankery.

Of course you'd expect something advertised as beans on toast to be bog standard beans on fucking toast. "Beans on toast" is a well known meal and everyone in the UK knows it means tinned beans on toast.

I would never have considered checking what was meant by "beans on toast".

Sounds like crap service all round.

Don't go back.
If they treat customers like that then they certainly won't make any profit!

what you mean you wouldnt ask someone to describe the beans to you? How bizarre 😂

There is a lovely cafe near me run by a Bulgarian couple. They clearly state the baked beans are Bulgarian, which are delicious. Otherwise I would never never expect anything other than tinned

Not if I was ordering beans on toast at a regular (not fancy) cafe. I'd expect to get bog standard (from a tin) baked beans.