Please help stop this disgraceful practice.

I’m most offended by retrospective buttering situation. What were they thinking?

I also get fed up with sour dough as it’s sour. It would drain the pleasure out of beans.

garnish. Meh. Take it or leave it. But inappropriate for the humble bean.

As you well know. She ordered children's beans on toast for her 1 year old & was given spicey beans for him long after he was given the toast which hd DH I don't like so spat out. So of course it turned into the usual bullshit

@likelysuspect i live sour dough, but it needs to be properly toasted AND buttered BEFORE the beans are put in top!

BUT if it didn't specify on the menu I'd expect it to come on ordinary bread toasted!

don't care either way about the garnish.

On the subject of untoasted toast- I was watching a FB reel of a lovely Scottish chap who's in the US for the football, and he was saying that he's several times been served toast that was only toasted on one side!

Is this usual across the pond? Is it a Thing? Can any Americans confirm this?

Thank you! I shall scoot off there this afternoon.

Funnily enough I've just learned of a new greasy spoon on our local high street. The menu looks promising. I feel I need to go there for lunch today.

Thanks ❤️

No!!! 😱

OP Unbuttered bread with the butter on the side...to mock you! I bet it was rock hard too and unwrapped so you can't even soften it by sitting on it.

I'm still annoyed by beans being served on the plate in a wee ceramic dish. It does a wall of death round the bigger plate, and you burn your fingers trying to dump the bugger out. Although it is somewhere else to put the butter to soften.

Token leaf. Should be banned.

I know tangentially of a man who grows "micro greens". People subscribe to them. Actual hundreds of pounds they spend a year, to have little piddling cardboard pots of tiny green shit delivered to the door weekly. He is rich because of piffling around in his posh greenhouse, blithely producing these smallish and entirely superfluous leaves.

What happened to a good old fashioned nineties salad? A structured and firm salad with fun things like tomatoes and a proper dressing. That would never coerce the bean juice into an unpleasant scenario.

Did you perhaps inadvertently insult the staff, so they put it on the beans? Go back again in disguise and see if they present the green clump on the side this time, sans bean jus.

This concept is very upsetting to me, this whole scenario 😂

For those asking - M&S do a lovely soda bread.

There was a pub that done a Sunday lunch not far from me, that put lettuce, tomato, cucumber and red onion on a Sunday lunch- yep complete with gravy!!

dead easy to make your own. I think its rare in shops because it doesn't keep.

why? I am British and complain politely when I need to.....But I am fond of decent sourdough.

Best thread ever. Needs to be in Classics.

I wonder how much money is spent on unnecessary greenery?

Beans on toast should only be made at home or made in a greasy spoon.

To those of you who like a sprinkle of cheese try this - put some streaky bacon in the oven for about 10 mins, put your toast in the toaster.

Get a jug, pour the beans in and add cheese microwave for 4-5 mins.

Butter the toast, add the bacon which should be crispy then pour over the cheesy beans.

And bloody natural yoghurt. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of yoghurt. But it doesn't need to be included in EVERYTHING.

On the subject of chefs and greenery- my first XH was a chef in a Top London Restaurant. I had to restrict his home-kitchen actions after he used nearly an entire meal's worth of greenery as a garnish on something. We couldn't afford such fripperies at that time.

He did introduce me to soda bread though. Which you can no longer buy in the shops because SOURDOUGH.

Blame Jamie Oliver for that. He chops up a red chilli on pretty much everything.

You always need butter on a jacket potato. On mash as well as in it. On toast. On baked beans on toast.
Sourdough is fine providing it is toasted enough when used for toast.
White plastic bread can lack the substance for beans on toast
I would not put greenery on beans on toast. It doesn’t go.
I want a bacon sandwich now. In crusty white unsliced bread. With butter !

Oooh yes - cheese and some Tabasco. Perfection.

I agree. The slightest bit of chilli gives my son a ‘stomach’ upset for days. So accordingly he is careful when eating out but sometimes he just doesn’t know

Of course people know those other breads exist. I happily eat them too but most people know that most commercially processed breads are not good for you, so the pp has a point, sourdough bread is healthier.

You seem to have gone from light hearted to militant on this thread.

You people are crazy! (Except for @Malasana )

Sourdough toast is perfect for beans because the rich sauce can soak in without making the bread all mushy and floppy.

If the sauce is good, you don't need butter. (Bold Beans make the best baked beans; the sauce is delicious)

I don't care either way about garnish, but I would like a grating of cheese and some hot sauce.

I think if you order beans on toast, the beans will always be on the bread, so this doesn't surprise me. Personally I wouldn't order this as the bread turns to slime.

You have however hit upon two of my pet peeves: sourdough bread as breakfast toast (no!) and pre-buttered toast (nooooo!).

Send all the pea shoots and coriander my way.
I love an edible flower as well!