Should they describe this menu item better

[holidaybubble]

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 you said in your first post that he WAS spitting out the beans.

Full English is easier to 'say' than 'baked eggs with spinach'. Dear heavens

Don't ever go to Boston (USA) the home of the baked bean....you might find, horror of horrors, meat in the beans.

I would be more upset with the spinach and baked eggs on my full English breakfast

I said full English as was easier to say than baked eggs with spinach

Maybe they just find it easier to say beans on toast, rather than spicy homemade beans on toast.

Have you never met a 1year old!

Interesting change from inhaling your full English in front of him.

Another lightly disguised Forrin is Bad post...

Our English baked beans have been contaminated by Forrin spices! Our children suffer!

Incidentally, there are records of cumin being grown and eaten in England even before the 1066 Norman conquest.

I think you're right @holidaybubble . Baked beans means something specific. Just like 'macaroni cheese' should have macaroni and not any old pasta.

Glad you said this Johnny I was thinking exactly the same.

I would have asked to be on the safe side if child is picky; some places will flag menu items that are very spicy (hot) but this would be based on local adult taste unless it's on a children's menu. It's odd to assume they'd be tinned instead of homemade - most people would have expected the opposite and possibly complained if they got tinned! If the toast and beans were two separate items I don't think getting them at different times is unreasonable but they should have taken the toast back if you asked and the beans weren't coming very soon.

You're not wrong I'd have expected normal Heinz baked beans without any 'enhancements" with that description. I wouldn't class your DS as fussy either. Mine would have done just the same and probably would have rejected the sausage too if it had too much black pepper in it.

They're not going to be any less spicey no matter how many air miles they do

Not in baked beans, no.

Unless it said 'spiced baked beans' (in which case I wouldn't order it).

Baked beans means Heinz or whatever out of a can. Homemade baked beans are an entirely different dish. Not a fan when menus don't describe things properly. I want to know what I'm ordering.

Oh,.op your thread seems to have set of the Twat signal. No one that's ever been to a cafe for breakfast has expected regular beans!.
Yes, they should have listed the beans as homade or said something when you ordered.

Don't be ridiculous.
OP, I think you need to realise that you and your son were only two of their customers and the staff were not on standby all morning to attend to your son's every whim

It's odd to assume they'd be tinned instead of homemade - most people would have expected the opposite and possibly complained if they got tinned
Rubbish. I've only ever been served beans that were anything other than tinned in one place and they proudly declare them as their homemade spicy beans on the menu

Not being ridiculous.

Most cafes/restaurants, around here at least, all serve tinned baked beans. There are one or two that do homemade ones and both clearly advertise that on their menus. We tried one, but they were not nice, the beans were hard and the sauce was bitter.

YANBU.

I'm thinking Twat signal too. They've even brought out the forrin angle now 🙄

Because maybe everyone's just left without telling them?

😂😂

now i know your chatting shit .... easier to lie about a meal than was to say what meal you actually had? LOL

I think you didn't go to a british cafe that serves 'traditional' british cafe food, and actually it would be reaosnable to expect a bit of spice in the meals 🤔

I agree. A relative of mine has a chilli allergy so anything we make if they are eating with us never has chillies in it.

If I saw baked beans & toast on a cafe menu I’d expect a detailed description of it was anything other than standard baked beans, as spices may cause digestive issues as well as customers potentially having allergies as well as just not wanting to eat spicy beans!

He's ONE...even a bit of spice is a weird flavour if he's not used to it. He's also not going to think "well, this is all I've got so let's just get on with it".

& that's fine if that's what you enjoy.

but a kids 'beans on toast' at a cafe, should be the bog standard version they'd expect. Plenty of opportunity to expand their tastes at home and other things are available if they don't like them