Should they describe this menu item better

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Went to a cafe for the first time it’s not for profit and does stuff for the community. I had been wanting to try it out for a while and finally went to day with my toddler I checked the menu to see if he would eat anything and saw baked beans. I ordered him baked beans on toast with a sausage turns out the beans where homemade and spiced Aibu to think they should state this on the menu as there is a big difference between tinned and home made. I said to the girl behind the counter it was my first time coming she could have said did I know the beans were spiced when ordering for my son. Obviously he refused to eat them.

not linked to my Aibu but my full English came with toast and I got toast for him too. The wait for food was long so they gave me my son’s toast early which I hadn’t asked for. I then didn’t revive my toast with my meal and he then had no toast for his beans. I would have said something but my son was screaming as he was hungry and pushing his pot of beans and spitting them out so I just inhaled mine and left. The person that also works there had gone upstairs and I didn’t want to wait.

But even ordinary Heinz baked beans contain a spice mix.

he should have just eaten them??? Do you have children??

Chickpeas are the food of the gods.

How’s this OP:

Classic cowboy beans on toast £3.50

Perfect for eating round the campfire, or for a light lunch at our cosy cafe. Our home made baked beans have been gently slow-cooked to perfection, with traditional smokey flavours and a touch of heat. Served with sourdough toast and a knob of butter.

Ask your server about our alternative bread selection.

Everybody is ignoring that.

Double post.

I don't think it it's at all odd to expect that a community café was selling home made baked beans.

I think it is very odd

Lots of things contain spice for flavour but aren’t ‘spicey’- Tomato ketchup for example, or baby foods such as Ella’s kitchen cottage pie. Regular tinned bakedbeans are not spicey. I have had beans at hundreds of places and only one place they were spicey, not sure if they were home made as could well have been tinned with added spice.

My 1 year old would've been thrilled to be given spiced beans. Was he actually crying and not eating them or was it you making a big fuss over it to cause a reaction from him?

lovely for you. one of mine would, two wouldn't. it's like kids have different tastes

you and I hang out in very different types of cafe...

What happened to his sausage he was given and his toast ? Didn’t he eat those.

Very sorry wrongly quoted !

I'm actually with you OP and don't really understand the push back you are getting.

Unless it was a fancy cafe, I'd expect "baked beans on toast" to be normal tinned beans. I don't think I'd have asked for clarification on that.

And it's not ok that they gave him his toast and beans are seperate times. They are literally 2 parts of the meal that need to go together.

Whereas you not getting toast with your breakfast is just one of those annoyances.

I'd probably drop them a polite email just explaining that clarification on the beans is needed. You'd think they'd want to advertise that the beans are home made.

The toast is something I can’t believe people are overlooking. She ordered beans ON toast

imagine ordering a burger and they served the bun 20 mins before the patty. It’s mad.

Because they arnt "spicy"

So? The OP describes them as spiced and then mentions cumin, which isnt "spicy".

I agree with you OP. I would expect baked beans on a cafe menu to be bog standard out of a tin. And if they weren’t I would expect the cafe to state on the menu as it’s kind of a selling point. Home made baked beans. And I would expect them to cost more too.

I live in a Home Counties market town and I can assure you that every cafe and restaurant serves beans from a tin...except the Lebanese place which calls them ful medames

If you're messing with the baked beans you need to specify what you're doing - cowboy, Boston, ful medames?

Apart from anything else I bloody hate tinned beans, leaking their bastard orange goop into my fry up, but I'd be happy to try a different style if I knew they were on offer

I thought that was part of the vibe of community cafes.

Most people see it as a plus that it isn't just tipped straight from a can - well maybe not on here.

I think they should say the beans are spicy and homemade. You had a whole plate of food surely your child could have shared. Surely having toast calmed his hunger pangs couldn't you have just ordered something else for him. Sounds a bit non avent to me.

What sort of beans do the Upper Tier of mners eat? Unicorn droppings?

You may never have been served them, bit you said you never been anywhere that has them, which blatantly isn't true.

I think it depends on where your community cafe is. a not for profit community cafe, I'd expect cheap and cheerful and easily replicable meals regardless of who was on shift.

but even if your community cafe is all home made baked beans and freshly made hummus with wild samphire all on freshly baked sourdough toast, you need to put a little bracket after baked beans to say home made, spicy.

Maybe you need to expand the range of food he eats?