I’m a Weezer fan. Plain and simple. I love their music. Their new stuff is always happy, cheerful while their old stuff always had a good beat, even if the lyrics were a bit on the sad side. Their music is great. Awesome vocals and melody in basically all of their songs. They’ve released a new single called (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To. It’s a great song. The video really takes “Bro’s before Ho’s” to a whole new level. Watch it. Like all of their videos really it’s not deficient on the original and artistic side of things.

Definitely check out Weezer’s other stuff like Dreamin’ (I love that song), Pork and Beans (cool vid) and Island in the Sun (one of my favourite songs of all time – such a happy tune).

Well enjoy them all! And don’t forget to tell me what you think of them in the comments section below! Here’s the link for (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To so check it out!

Tomorrow is the last day of two things.

Unofficially, it is the last day of my work experience. Officially I continue to Friday, which brings us to the last ‘last’.

It will also be the last day of me being a single child. A state which I have rather enjoyed being. On Friday my sister returns from Colorado, and I will have a sister again. Instead of going to work experience, I’m meeting her at the airport and ‘babysitting’ her, as both parents are away.

I promised her I’d get all my homework out the way, so I don’t have it hanging over my head and we can just chill and hang out. She barely knows me any more, and I barely know her. On the Social Interview app on Facebook, she put the thing that I get most excited about as Tokio Hotel. I will probably dedicate a post to them in the future, but it must be said that I’m in a huff with them. If she was still here in England, she’d know to put Star Trek, Zachary Quinto, or Heroes! Pfff.

So I’ve still got a whole load of statistics coursework to do, my geography coursework to redo, and music to do. But I ignore music because I can’t do it, and I excercise the notion of ‘Out of sight, Out of mind’ with it.

I’ve got this song stuck in my head:

It’s so catchy! I really like their songs Hash Pipe and Pork and Beans also.

Yes, you read that headline right – it really does say “Pork and Beans Cake” – and it’s AWESOME.

A coworker sent me the recipe, not because she knows how much I love beans, but because she knows I love to bake and try different things. 

You can't even see the beans!

Ingredients

• 1 15oz can pork and beans
• 1 8oz can of crushed pineapple
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup veg oil
• 4 eggs
• 1 T vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 T Baking powder
• 2 T baking soda
• 1 T cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Drain some of the bean juice and mash beans until pureed. Add pineapple (do not drain any juice), sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix. Add flour, powder, soda, cinnamon and salt. Blend for two minutes until smooth. Bake in well-greased jelly roll pan for 30-35 minutes. Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

This cake is awesome!!! My roommates love it too. It has a carrot cake consistency, and if you didn’t tell anyone it was made with pork and beans, they would never know. I think the next time I try this, I’m going to use baked beans. If you try it, let me know what you think!

Next up is a bag I made a few weeks ago. I fell in love with the tree fabric immediately. It has a vintage feel, colors, with a modern twist – save the trees! The Tree Tote is fully lined, top band made with double sided biased tape, and the same belt/luggage strapping used on my plastic tote bags.

Tree Tote lining

Segue abaixo a montegem genial de 100 vídeos que viraram febre do maior compatilhador de vídeos da Web. O bilionário YouTube.

Alguns são de conhecimento mais do que comum de qualquer usuário de internet, na sua maioria são micos ao vivo, mancadas esportivas, gafes, videos de múcais… enfim, tudo aquilo que só a internet pode prover para a Geração Y. Na verdade esse vídeo me lembrou, e muito, um post muito antigo, que publiquei neste blog – leia-se, antigo para um blog que tem pouco mais de um ano.

O post chamado A Filmografia da Web falava sobre a música Pork and Beans, da banda Weezer, que refez diversos desses vídeos-hits da web, inclusive chamando muitos dos protagonistas originais para participar, recriando em primeira instâncio o que esse Top 100 se propôs a fazer agora. O clip é sensacional e vale a pena conferir.

Abaixo segue a montagem dos 100 grandes sucessos do YouTube, reunidos e editados em um vídeo de 3min40s.

Coletânea de vídeos postados no YouTube faz nos recordarmos da recente revolução virtual da Web colaborativa

Fábio Prina_16/10/2009

Ingredients: About 2 1/2 cups (1 pound) dry pinto beans
2 tbsp bacon fat (you can get this by frying up about 3 strips)
1 roughly peeled and chopped onion (anything but purple)
about 1 1/2 pounds of cubed pork shoulder
salt

Instructions: After making sure there aren’t any rocks or dirt in the beans (this is actually quite common if you buy it in bulk), rinse them off. In a large pot, add about 2 1/2 quarts of water, the beans, the fat and the onions. Let the water boil. Put the pork under the broiler until both sides are browned. About the same time that the pork is done, the water should be boiling. At that point, turn down the heat until it’s just bubbling a little and add the pork. Let it simmer for about 2 hours or until the beans taste done (no one likes al dente beans, no matter what some former Top Chef contestants will tell you). Add some salt and pepper to taste at the end.

Serving suggestions: I really like putting a little bit of rice at the bottom of the bowl, just enough to keep it soupy. And maybe warming up some tortillas on the side.

What it will set you back: Unless you insist on buying your beans in bulk from someplace like Whole Foods, you should really not spend more than $1 a pound. Unless you insist on using fresh bacon fat, that shouldn’t cost you anything (for the sake of over-estimating, though, let’s say that costs $.50). One onion maybe $.30. The pork is going to be the most expensive part, and mine cost about $5 a pound ($8 for 1 1/2 pounds) for organic, sustainably raised stuff. This will make four dinner-sized servings for less than $10 or $2.50 per serving. It’s not the healthiest thing you’ll ever eat, but it beats the heck out of opening up a can of beans, which would still cost about almost the same.

Cooking time: About 15 minutes of labor, 2 hours of cooking (or you could do it all in a slow cooker, which would take about 6 hours).

Other ways of preparing it: Instead of broiling the meat, try browning it up the in the pot with a little olive oil. Once it’s browned, add the beans, water, fat and onions, making sure to scrape the little bits off the bottom (that’s a deglaze).

Note: This recipe is essentially stolen from Rick Bayless’ book Mexican Everyday, which is one of my favorite cookbooks.

Welcome to this shiny new blog. It’s time to get things going. What’s the lamest and fasted way to chalk up an easy DING! for a blog post? Yep, jam on a YouTube video!

In this case, though, the video I wanted to share has embedding disabled, so I can only provide this sad, solitary, lonely link:

YouTube: Weezer – Pork and Beans

This has got to be one of the coolest songs and coolest videos of all time. So let’s start this blog off right with a lively tune and an entertaining video. It humorously features some of the most famous moments from viral video history.

Oops. I forgot. You probably just clicked that link and aren’t here anymore. Lame. Oh well. I’ll just go on talking to myself.

The song rails against conformity, which is always a theme that resonates with me. I have absolutely no idea what eating candy with pork and beans means, though. The songwriter came up with the song apparently as a mini-protest against Geffen executives who angered him by demanding a more commercial record from Weezer. (This is the same group that did the Happy Days video for the song Buddy Holly that came on the original Windows 95 installation CD-ROM.)

I don’t plan to take the cheap way out and post YouTube videos too often, but I like this song and I thought it would be a nice way to cheat a blog post right out of the gate. In the future I’ll be attempting to blog on a semi-regular basis on a wide variety of topics of interest.

Credit shouts: Tshirt image generated using the Custom TShirt Generator.

I have been SO busy the whole of last week! Night study started since last Monday so I’ve been reaching home only about 10pm every night. I would be dosing off by the time I settled myelf down in front of the comp. Sleeping for less than 4 hrs each day. Exhausted.

Oh well, I’m really glad the weekends are here. Better still, a long weekend! Today’s National Day and I’ve got tickets to the NDP! So I’m gonna be squeezing through the crowd soon but hopefully I’ll enjoy the show. It’s already 2.00 pm, hafta prepare! Ciaos!

My mood’s good today and this song’s making it even better! Love these geeks and just stay true and be yourself dudes!

La web 2.0 es muy poderosa y aunque aún no exista medios para poder estudiarla en su totalidad podemos notar que su repercusión es muy fuerte.

Basta con ver los videos que saltan a la fama con sus divertidos, alegres y/o tontas acciones por parte de sus personajes. ¿Quien no ha visto la caída de Edgar? Tan popular en su tiempo.

Podría decir cientos de videos que han sido muy famosos y que han estado en la mente de los internautas.

Un videoclip de Weezer – Pork And Beans muestra la cantidad de videobloggers famosos y algunos de los realizadores de los videos más visitados en el mundo.

Esta herramienta poderosa no sólo es utilizada para fines de ocio, porque también se puede aplicar para la política, no hace falta pensar mucho. Miremos a USA con su presidente Obama que desarrolló una exitosa campaña web 2.0

Tanto así que muchos se atrevieron a poner en práctica las mismas técnicas que uso el actual presidente norteamericano e inclusive se dictan talleres.

So this week would have been more eventful on McFly.Vintage if not for two things:
1) I went to Disneyland last Monday. That morning, before leaving, I registered for my fall classes and in the whirlwind rush to get ready to leave for the Happiest Place on Earth, I forgot that I had left a cup of water sitting on my vanity, above my mini table where my laptop lives. (Sidenote: I have a desk, but my sewing machine invaded while my computer was distracted by constantly being used.) My cat got locked in my room and knocked over my cup…all over my computer and a few notebooks that I had left on my mini table. It didn’t work for a few days, but it was just a matter of letting it dry out.
2) Less involved reason, but I went to Michael’s (boyfriend) for the week and didn’t want to carry a potentially broken computer with me the whole time. Due to budget constraints on our part which consisted of not leaving the house unless we were doing something free or someone else was paying, this ended up being a bad decision on my part.

Anyway, I’m back now, with potentially the most random post EVAH. Lots of cooking stuff, so for those of you looking for one-person meal deliciousness or something different, I do believe you’re in the right place!
This week, I’ve been eating a lot of eggs. Dunno why, though I think it was because Shari (Michael’s mom, who is amazingly cool) bought some last time we went to the store. Twice this week I made the same small meal, which is like an omelet but not as complicated. It’s more of a scramble, like you get at Denny’s, but you have more control over the quality. (I can’t make a truly good omelet to save my life, actually, so I sort of adapted to making this in its place.) Oh boy, are you ready to find out how I did it?!
(Just a bit of FYI: Based on the fact that I don’t really measure anything unless I’m following a recipe or baking, I don’t see the point of telling you a list of things to gather to use to replicate exactly what I made for myself. I’ll bold what the ingredients are for each, however, and if you’re keeping score at home you can write it down. Otherwise, email me and I’ll try to construct a basic measured variation if you’re that concerned about your own cooking being exact .)

Okay, so first thing I did was I tore up a few slices of deli turkey. I tore it more because I didn’t want to dirty a knife, but it ended up having a really cool texture that I liked. Then I mixed up two eggs and approximately two tablespoons of water for a scrambled egg base. I sprayed a pan down with some Pam and poured the eggs in, then after a moment of letting the base cook up a bit, I scattered in the turkey. Because it’s my absolute favorite flavor in the world, I added a generous pinch of ground chipotle pepper for some general spice. I scrambled the eggs as usual, keeping it over a medium heat, and tossing the eggs and stirring constantly til it was done to my liking, then I topped it all with cheese once it was on a plate. Paired with toast with jam and orange juice, it made a nice late breakfast (and a few days later, a nice midnight meal.)
About the chipotle for a second. I like it a lot, it adds like a smoky barbecue sauce flavor to whatever I add it to, and then you don’t need much else but perhaps a sprinkling of salt, depending on the dish. I do that with canned tuna a lot–enough mayo to make everything clump together, a bit of chipotle, a dash of salt. Tasty. If you don’t have any, try and find it with the ground spices in the spice aisle, and use it wherever you can manage it!

The second meal I made–though this was by far not my delightfully original take–was a simple pork and beans dish. (Ironically, and not planned, I am listening to the Weezer song of the same name as I type this.) It was the second night in a row that we had it, but it was more because of a surplus of hunger and a lack of desire for doing anything difficult that prompted the second-night meal. While my Michael washed some dishes, I sliced and pan-fried some turkey hotdogs and heated some baked beans on the stovetop. When the dogs were done, I let ‘em stew with the beans for a few while we finished dishes. Delicious and easy, two of my favorite things. Oh yeah, and unhealthy, but at least the hot dogs were actually white meat! I think we watched TRON while we ate our deliciously unhealthy (but protein-filled) meal. So Michael and I are not only geeks, but lazy geeks.

The last of my cooking delights while I was at Michael’s was last night and possibly the most delicious out of all of them. While at the store this past week (though really, every time we’re at the store) we purchase the Birdseye Steamfresh veggie bags. I usually go for mixed or something with broccoli or water chestnuts (or both) while he goes for peas and corn. And ONLY peas and corn. He can eat an entire bag of peas in one sitting.
Last night, in hunger desperation, we decided to make our bags of Steamfresh deliciousness as meals. I’m not complaining, he ate something green that wasn’t a salad. (Sidenote: He’s been eating very well lately, and I’m the one who hasn’t, so I can’t really say that, haha.) I had gotten a bag of rice, peas, and carrots, and I made fried rice out of it.
First thing I did was I steamed the bag of long grain white rice and mixed vegetables (that’s exactly what it says on the bag if you want to look for it.) This took about four minutes, so I took the time to prep my pan with some sesame oil over a low heat. Once the rice was done, I let it sit for a few while I pan-scrambled an egg and chopped it finely with the spatula. I dislike this method of scrambling eggs generally as it makes them somewhat burnt and flavorless, but it works well for fried rice. I then poured in the rice and veggies and mixed them with the scrambled and chopped-up egg and let them sit for a few, stirring every so often.
Now, what most people don’t realize about fried rice is that it’s usually made from leftover steamed rice–even in restaurants, that’s how they do it. If the rice gets too crunchy or old to serve as fresh steamed rice, they pop it in the refrigerator overnight and, when pan-fried with veggies and all, it gets a new lease on deliciousness the next day. Fried rice, when made at home, will taste best if made with day old rice–the previous night’s takeout leftovers are a safe bet, especially if you have leftover veggies, too, and if everything has been well chilled. Another thing that most people don’t realize is the fact that most everyone adds a bit of soy sauce to the rice and veggies for flavor and color. That, my friends, is what I did next–I added a leftover packet of soy sauce to my rice. I stirred to coat it all, and then plopped it into a pan. A non-traditional addition I made was a bit of sea salt and coarse pepper, and a touch more soy sauce to suit my taste. It was DELICIOUS.

Tonight two different types of yummies were made. My mom fried up some

The chips. Soooo good. The quality on the photo is bad since it was on my phone. Sorry!

tortillas for the carnitas we had for dinner, and she used the leftover oil to fry up some homemade chips out of tortilla pieces. It was DELICIOUS. I didn’t even want salsa, just some salt and I was fine!
The other delicious thing I made today was a home-done vanilla frappuchino. I looked up the recipe, and it’s really not too difficult. Make about a half cup espresso, blend it with a cup and a half of ice, a cup or so of milk, a teaspoon of sugar or sweetener, and a generous shot of flavored syrup. We have vanilla in the house, so I used that–and wowza! It was the same consistency as the chain-bought variety, and even more delicious. I was impressed. I drank it before I even finished the first paragraph of this post!

The blended coffee! It was yummers. (camera, bad, sorry, etc)

My friends, siblings, mother, and I have been in loose discussions for hard-set plans–a Halloween party this year, since the holiday falls on a Saturday. Though themes for Halloween parties are usually not a good idea, we’re doing a “Storybook” theme and all of us (sans my mom and Michael) are coming as Alice in Wonderland characters to host a mad  tea party for all of our “storybook” character guests. (The invitation will specify fictional characters that are child-friendly as we will have a lot of kids coming.)
I’m going to be the March Hare, and my original plan was to buy all the pieces and make the ornate coat I want to wear. However, I’ve been told that due to monetary constraints, I must do the opposite–make or reuse or purchase all of the other items of my costume, and buy the coat, since it’ll cost less. I’ve decided to buy a pirate coat, so it’s something I can re-wear when Renaissance Faire comes, but I’m torn between a good quality but plain brown coat, and a not-as-good-quality lace-edged “bucaneer” dress that I’d alter to be a more ornate coat-like piece. The first could be reused at Faire for Michael’s use, and so could the second for me but with a bit more difficulty as my costume is that of a peasant. I dunno. I’m leaning towards the crappy one because it’d be really awesome-looking.
One thing that I am for sure going to make is a vest for myself. I originally was going to go to Joann Fabrics to look for something silky and fun, but then I

The fabric from the shorts. It's going to be horribly tacky and I love it!!!

remembered that 1) I can’t afford it and 2) I already HAVE a fun patterned fabric to work with! Last week my setpdad gave me a pair of extra-baggy and long men’s shorts that he didn’t want. They are mostly white with purple white and gray plaid all over it. I deconstructed the shorts to find that they are made from a massive amount of material and would be more than enough to make a vest out of! Assuming I get the bad quality jacket (since it’d work better with this costume) this would look really horrible with it, haha. BUT it’ll give me the chance to practice patternmaking, since I’m sort of just doing this on my own and on the cheap. I really hope everything comes together!! Keep reading and I’ll keep posting updates on it–and a comment or two of encouragement wouldn’t hurt, either

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Je sais, je suis en retard, ça fait un bout qu’elle est sortie cette chanson-là (un an, en fait). Mais ça vaut la peine de regarder le brillant vidéoclip de la chanson Pork and beans, de Weezer, car c’est une satire très réussie de notre société de l’image, de l’omniprésence de l’information et de l’intrusion d’Internet dans nos vies. Vous y reconnaîtrez sûrement des visages familiers…

Comme l’intégration de la vidéo a été désactivée, je vous suggère simplement de cliquer sur le lien pour la voir sur Youtube:

Pork and beans by Weezer

stavo per postare una bella canzone di quelle da ascoltare a tutto volume la sera prima di andare a dormire pensando alle cose più belle, ma poi mi sono imbattuto nel nuovo video dei weezer.. fantastici come sempre, hanno preso alcuni dei numerosi e famosi video del tubo -  comprimendoli in un clip davvero ben fatto..

dopo buddy holly ambientato da al di happy days, ecco qua il nuovo video:

intanto ne approfitto per dire che i miei con mia sorella e mio cugino arriveranno venerdì per passare pasqua tutti insieme..  io e roberto intanto ci stiamo preparando (più psicologicamente che fisicamente, a dire il vero) per un torneo di calcetto organizzato dall’uni – mi sono persino comprato un completino con colori italiani per spaccare qualche gambina..

episodio surreale >> stamattina intorno alle 10.20 (eravamo già svegli) suonano al campanello e ci ritroviamo la vicina che sta dietro casa nostra con una richiesta abbastanza strana: ci spiega che stanno vendendo la casa, ma ai nuovi acquirenti non piaciono le nostre tende.. le NOSTRE tende!! cioè, ai nuovi FUTURI inquilini non piaciono le NOSTRE tende – perciò la signora è venuta chiedendo se fosse possibile tirarle giù e casomai ricomprarcele nuove a spese sue..  le tende in questo momento sono in un sacchetto nell’armadio, ma voi che avreste fatto?? cosa le avreste risposto?? come vi sareste comportati??

Recipe & picture courtesy of Rachael Ray

Serves 8
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 20 hr

• 8 slices bacon, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• Salt and pepper
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup ketchup
• 3 tablespoons pickle juice
• 2 tablespoons dry mustard
• Two 28-ounce cans pork and beans
• One 15-ounce can pinto beans, rinsed
• 2 cups chopped burnt ends from chopped ham

1.  In a large pot, cook the bacon over medium-high heat until crisp, 5 to 6 minutes. Add the onion, season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 3 minutes. Stir in the brown sugar, ketchup, pickle juice and dry mustard and cook, stirring, until thickened, about 2 minutes.
2. Stir in the pork and beans, pinto beans and burnt ends; cook, stirring occasionally, until heated through, about 10 minutes.

**Personal Review: No Review Yet**

So occasionally I post music videos on here. I try to pick ones that I like for the photographic perspective, not just the song. But this time I am choosing two to post for entertainment. One a new song that is stuck in my head, and the other an older-ish song with internet celeb cameos out the wazooo. Hope you enjoy them!

10 servings
INGREDIENTS:
1 pound lean ground beef (or deer sausage)
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
2 16-ounce cans pork and beans
1 16-ounce can kidney beans
¾ cup ketchup
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 tablespoon vinegar

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Do not drain beans. In a large skillet brown ground beef until done. Discard grease. Place browned ground beef, soup mix, pork and beans, kidney beans, ketchup, mustard, and vinegar into a 3-quart casserole or baking dish. Mix thoroughly. Place in oven and bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes.

Stumbled across a great interview with Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of Weezer, on Fresh Air this week. 

In case you somehow missed Pork And Beans last year, then you may not realize that Rivers actually does remain relevant in a post-Buddy Holly world.

Generic terms like “eccentric” or “oddball” really don’t do him justice.   I highly recommend listening to the whole conversation when you get a chance.

I have deconstructed Weezer’s ‘Pork and Beans’ viral music video:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1896876
with the help of DP.

I count about 40 possible viral references. There are 7 that I am unable to source: (0:58; 1:12; 1:13; 2:28; 2:52; 3:06; 3:11). If you can account for one, or you catch something I’ve missed, leave me a comment.

Enjoy.
(I am a geek
and I rock it well).

Type the corresponding keyword into youtube for an example:
0:30 – Numa Numa
0:34 – Dramatic Chipmunk
0:37 – Afro Ninja
0:46 – Diet Coke + Mentos
0:53 – GI Joe PSA – Gay
0:56 – Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
0:58 -  ??? (giant bear thing) ???
1:02 – Guiness World Record for Most T-Shirts
1:12 – Shoes The Full Version (purple guy)*
1:12 – badgerbadgerbadger.com (mushroom)*
1:13 – Prison Thriller + badgerbadgerbadger.com (snake)*
1:15 – Britney Fan Crying
1:17 – Sneezing Panda
1:19 – All Your Base Are Belong to Us
1:25 – Miss Teen USA 2007 – South Carolina Answers A Question
1:36 – ‘I Want It That Way’ – Two Asian Guys
1:37 – Little Superstar
1:38 – Shoes The Full Version
1:39 – Crank That Soldier Boy
1:41 – The Evolution of Dance
1:41 – Prison Thriller (in background)
1:44 – “Chocolate Rain” Original Song by Tay Zonday
1:45 – Chocolate Rain by Chad Vader
1:49 – Line Rider
1:54 – K-Fed Popozao
2:03 – Daft Hands
2:03 – Leeroy Jenkins
2:06 – Daft Bodies
2:19 – Best Sex Ever!!!
2:20 – Noah Takes A Photo of Himself Every Day for 6 Years
2:24 – Ask A Ninja Special Delivery 4 “Net Neutrality”
2:28 – lethalpenguin.net**
2:36 – Kneecam No. 1 – The Original Technoviking Tape from 2000
2:44 – Potter Puppet Pals
2:51 – Stabbing at Leia’s
2:52 – ??? (weird cartoon duck) ???
2:53 – Charlie The Unicorn
2:56 – How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube
2:59 – It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time
3:10 – Will It Blend
3:11 – We Are The World**
3:34 – RickRoll’d

Update 01.19.09 @ 3:30: Thanks to Corinne* and Ashner** for their inputs.

Not a combination I would've ever imagined in a million years ... but, hey, only 35¢!

I scoured the grocery-store shelves today looking for an item or two for the food-bank bin at the front of the store.

I’m never sure what to get, so today I wanted to choose something that I’d actually enjoy having myself.

Then, bingo — there they were. Tiny perfect tins of pork and beans.

Now, before you scoff, I’ll have you know that legumes are very nutritious. And rather tasty, too.

Throw ’em on toast and you’ll feel like you just stepped into an episode of Coronation Street (or maybe that’s just me).

So beans it was. If you have any other ideas for future food-bank purchases, please let me know.

And for any other legume lovers out there, here are some fun
random bean facts:

• Canned pork and beans were the first-ever convenience food, according to the 1975 Better Homes and Garden Heritage Cookbook. [Maybe that’s why I love them so....]
• Commercially canned pork and beans were first sold in the 1880s, but did not become popular until H.J. Heinz came out with their version in 1895. [1895?? Actually, I think I might have tried some of that vintage ....]
• On October 8th, 2008, competitive eater Micah “Wing Kong” Collins broke the existing world record by consuming 5 lbs 4 ounces of pork and beans in 58 seconds on the Preston and Steve radio show in Philadelphia. [That’s just wrong on so many levels.]
• The 1832 cookbook The American Frugal Housewife lists only three ingredients for this dish: a quart of beans, a pound of pork, and pepper. [No comment.]

P.S. A friend tells me today is “Blue Monday” — saddest day of the year. Funny thing is, I felt fine until she told me that! hahaha So, if you need cheering up at all, check out this video of one of my very favourite beans … Mr. Bean. Enjoy!