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.

Any baked beans I’ve ordered in a cafe have been tinned beans in tomato sauce. That’s what I would expect to be served. If I was eating in a high end restaurant I would ask what the baked beans were as they could be different.

It should say spicy beans or baked beans in a spicy tomato sauce or the like because simple baked beans is a safe go to food for so many people. Wouldn’t bother if it was home made or not but the spice would

I'm with you op. I think everyone would expect a bog standard tin o beans at breakfast time in a cafe.
Anyone who says otherwise is just plain weird 😂

But he had his toast quickly - surely a good thing if he was v hungry? And his sausage? And why could he not then have had some of your full English?

Any item described as 'baked beans' on a menu, I would not expect any spice in them at all.

Also don't forget this is including cafes attached to galleries, museums, tourist attractions, national trust places and the like, golf/member clubs, pubs etc - all of which will used tin beans if they're selling them
as well as schools....
so unless the PP has never been to anywhere like this ever in her entire life - so never been to school, never been to a pub a cafe of any kind .... she's delusional

I hate mayo so always check to see if the items contain mayo or mayo based products. The amount of times I’m served mayo on the burger or sandwich or coleslaw, although it’s not as common now as more businesses are aware of allergens.

I mean to add - even if the menu didn’t say, if I was a waitress and saw what you were ordering for a baby I would say something just in case

Ooh I love chilli’s, this must be a nightmare

The toast came late and P apparently didn't actually have a full englsih, apparently it was easier her for her to lie in their OP than say "eggs and spinach" 🤔

Yes they should. It’s not unreasonable to assume it meant tinned beans in this example. Annoying about the food timings, too.

A 1 year old who eats something that looks like what he usually has, but it tastes very different to what he expected?

its ingrained, it helps with human survival.

as we grow we can rationalise why something tastes 'different' and mostly be able to cope much better. But if it had a taste you couldn't rationalise then spitting it out could save your luge.

Hes 1, he did what our bodies are designed to do.

I would have expected baked beans from a tin rather than artisan style beans. So YANBU there

but you didn't half get yourself in a right mess over the situation. He could have eaten something from your plate, you coukd have eaten his beans and given him your sausage, you could have chased up your toast...

Anyway, I am sure you will both survive the terrible ordeal.

Ha, what a funny Mumsnetty topic. They are a community cafe, working with volunteers; I would provide kind feedback so they improve their offering.

Yes, so they messed up, it is not the end of the world. Don't go back there if it upset you. Or maybe try and volunteer with them to help them out, should you have spare time.

YANBU I’m pretty certain 99.9% of people ordering beans on toast in
a cafe expect Heinz beans on toast, the cafe should put it on the menu.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

🤣🤣🤣

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

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

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.

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.