doing it the hard way

I mentioned googling for a (English) baked beans recipe in the last post. Well, I did find one. It's pretty complicated but definitely doable, since I have most of the spices required. I'm not surprised that in my short search I haven't found a British site that carried a baked beans recipe -- aside from more time and effort, you'd definitely spend more money making baked beans yourself than buying a 20- or 30-pence can of beans from the store. I mean, that's one of the reasons why I ate them all time while in Brighton. Beans on toast is one of the cheapest and easiest meals around, considering how cheap their bread is, too. I liked to get the higher-end bread with a crispy, golden crust -- for under a pound. Compare that to a loaf of nice bread here for what, $3.00? Dude, we're getting gypped (gipped?) somehow.