Please! Flame Tree beans....Ranch style or pork & beans? Update: Mystery Solved!

[EMom]

If you know......Are the beans at Flame Tree "ranch style" or "pork & beans"? We really don't like ranch style, but love pork & beans. We'd like to know going in. Thanks!

 

[chocovrdmicears]

Sorry... I don't know what 'ranch style' beans are. . Flame Tree beans are baked beans...sort of sweet (brown sugar, molasses type sauce)..I guess they would be closer to pork and beans.
Not sure if I helped!

 

[EMom]

Update:

The longer I kept asking this question on various threads and not getting answers, the more I began to suspect ranch style beans were Texas-specific. Apparently, they are. Check this out:

http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2010/03/ranch-style-beans-recipe.html

I grew up on them, but prefer pork & beans. And yes, that can has looked the same FOREVER....except when I was younger it did say, "Husband pleasin.' " The brand itself is "ranch style beans."

Anyway, I guess I can count on pork & beans at Flame Tree.

 

[jcemom]

I make baked beans at home all the time but I do not like Flame Tree beans. I am probably in the minority, but to me they taste like they're straight out of a can, not actually cooked for any length of time.

 

[Philleigh]

Not sure whether you would classify them as "pork & beans", but all three of us who tried them liked them. They have a more zip than your average canned baked beans (but not overly spicy).

 

[nytimez]

I make baked beans at home all the time but I do not like Flame Tree beans. I am probably in the minority, but to me they taste like they're straight out of a can, not actually cooked for any length of time.

Not sure whether you would classify them as "pork & beans", but all three of us who tried them liked them. They have a more zip than your average canned baked beans (but not overly spicy).

They're more glass jar-quality beans than tin can.

But they probably do come from a can. Most of the mass-produced stuff does, glass isn't really efficient for the large amounts they need.

 

[mkarizona]

EMOM: not Texas specific, but maybe western/southwestern. I have always used them as a base for chile. I had no idea that they aren't universal. There is a pack in my pantry from Costco right now.

 

[kmk86]

Im not sure what kind of beans these are specifically, but they are very good. We ate here last Tuesday. My whole family loved them too

 

[MHSweb79]

I've never heard of "ranch-style" beans so I learned something today- thanks!

To be fair, I live pretty far from Texas (Rhode Island) and I grew up outside Boston, the original Beantown. The guy from the Duck Boat tours told us Boston was called Beantown because in the Colonial days, the women would bring their crocks of beans to various restaurants or bakeries and put them in their ovens for the day (I think he said on Sundays). Anyway, the sailors approaching Boston Harbor could smell the beans cooking as they came closer to shore. These beans are molasses-based and sweet.

Topic? My beans from Flame Tree were kind of tasty, but they were very firm, almost hard. I think they were undercooked.