Crosse & Blackwell baked beans

WhiteHorse

Tried these the other day.

Small, hard beans (and not very many, either), swimming in a watery, sour sauce.

Yuk!

ljonski

only 44% beans and watery 3/4 full tin.
Back to Branston 4 me

Barneysmom

They were nice years ago but it has to Branston for me now too, Heinz at a push.

chesky369

Absolutely Branston - why didn't I know about them years ago?

nenni

We have always preferred Branston especially as they are often on offer 4 for £1 in lidl, but last week i had some from Tesco and must of been a duff batch. Opened them to find literally 20 beans could just about fit them all on a teaspoon the rest was just juice:eek:

quintwins

i havent had crosse and blackwell beans for awhile but last time i had them they were fine abit watery granted but not too bad, since then i've bene well stocked with branstons but i'm running out and we only have a tesco so there rarely on offer, i'm wondering if i should buy the ones on amazon now that are around 33p a tin, if the c&b ones are so bad now

EDIT after i posted that i checked tesco and they have 3 for £1 however amazon ones are still cheaper by 1p if your have room for 24 tins of beans

web_ferret

Bought some of the 4 for £1 from Iceland. Wish I hadn't. As said above 1/4 juice and the beans weren't great. I didn't expect this from Crosse and Blackwell. A Value or betterbuy product maybe but these were not labelled as a value range.
I'm scared to open the Crosse and Blackwell spaghetti 4 for £1 that I bought at the same time!
I searched for a website for crosse and blackwell but couldn't find one. On the tin says premierfoods but no mention of C&B on that website. I've filled in their contact us but don't expect any reply. If I do get a response I'll post on here

DCFC79

web_ferret wrote: »

Bought some of the 4 for £1 from Iceland. Wish I hadn't. As said above 1/4 juice and the beans weren't great. I didn't expect this from Crosse and Blackwell. A Value or betterbuy product maybe but these were not labelled as a value range.
I'm scared to open the Crosse and Blackwell spaghetti 4 for £1 that I bought at the same time!
I searched for a website for crosse and blackwell but couldn't find one. On the tin says premierfoods but no mention of C&B on that website. I've filled in their contact us but don't expect any reply. If I do get a response I'll post on here

I take it 1 didnt go deeper in terms of research, this should answer your question as to who owns C&B, the tin was old stock with the old details on. It seems the C&B products were split up at some point as this company sell the hot snack foods of the C&B name.

BallandChain

I buy Crosse & Blackwell and Branston beans. If you mix 50% of the C&B with 50% Branston beans it does taste good and it works out cheaper stretching the Branston beans out this way. You can always add tomato puree for a thicker tomato sauce.

viv0147

web_ferret wrote: »

Bought some of the 4 for £1 from Iceland. Wish I hadn't. As said above 1/4 juice and the beans weren't great. I didn't expect this from Crosse and Blackwell. A Value or betterbuy product maybe but these were not labelled as a value range.
I'm scared to open the Crosse and Blackwell spaghetti 4 for £1 that I bought at the same time!
I searched for a website for crosse and blackwell but couldn't find one. On the tin says premierfoods but no mention of C&B on that website. I've filled in their contact us but don't expect any reply. If I do get a response I'll post on here

I bought the beans and spaghetti while they were on offer and was very disappointed with both in fact I would say they were horrible.

web_ferret

DCFC79 wrote: »

I take it 1 didnt go deeper in terms of research, this should answer your question as to who owns C&B, the tin was old stock with the old details on. It seems the C&B products were split up at some point as this company sell the hot snack foods of the C&B name.

Thanks for the info. Premierfoods haven't responded to my email.

I've been on the Iceland website and in contact us under the dropdown box there is no option for a complaint! What a great way to reduce the number of complaints!

https://www.iceland.co.uk/contact-us/

Anyway submitted my comments about Icelands beans via the Product option and submitted a link back to here

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I'll post Icelands response if I get one.