Beanie Weenie's

United States
February 3, 2022 2:02pm CST
Last night I really didn't fill like cooking, so I just opened a can of Van Camp's pork and beans and cut up some hot dogs to make some beanie weenie's. I hadn't had this is a long time. I can still remember way back when my children were young and that's what we had a lot of during the summer time one year. During this time I was watching about 10 kids while their parents were working, since I was on temperary layoff from my job. This was back when homes had VCR's and you could rent a movie for a doller. Most of the time I would fix the kids ether beanie weenie's or grilled cheese sandwishes for lunch. After lunch I would let ether all the boys or all the girls get in the pool, while the others watched a movie. When the movie was over, they would switch places. All of them looked forward to this everyday.
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Genipher
@Genipher (5405)
• United States
3 Feb 22
Sounds like good memories. I didn't feel like cooking last night so we had za.
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sweet as honey
@sweetashoney (3597)
• United States
3 Feb 22
Oh it was, it's a shame in some ways, we so many channels to choose from,the internet and all the other service networks, it has taken away from that experience. I think that's why they looked forward to it, all them movies didn't come on tv like they do now and we didn't have internet back then
solxee
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
3 Feb 22
It must be like our Hunt’s Pork n Beans here. When I was young, I and my siblings would race to find the pork in the sea of beans. There would always be only two fatty slices lolll
sweet as honey
@sweetashoney (3597)
• United States
4 Feb 22
Van Camp's is about like Hunt's pork and beans. The brand here that I really don't care that much for Showboat pork and beans, I will use it though, if I'm making baked beans since I'm adding a lot of ingredients to it.
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solxee
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
4 Feb 22
@sweetashoney googling Showboat pork and beans…
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snowy
@snowy22315 (181956)
• United States
3 Feb 22
Sounds like fun, I might make hot dogs and beans more often, but it seems like I either have beans and no hotdogs or vice versa.
sweet as honey
@sweetashoney (3597)
• United States
3 Feb 22
Yea, I just happen to have some hot dogs, but I didn't have any buns, that's why I thought of beanie weenie's.
DE
@DaddyEvil (137464)
• United States
3 Feb 22
I guess that's one way to keep most rivalry to a minimum... I still like beanie weenies but I add more ingredients to mine than that. (And I hate hotdogs. I always used cooked bratwurst in mine. YUM!)
sweet as honey
@sweetashoney (3597)
• United States
4 Feb 22
Oh yea, they loved watching the movies and playing in the pool, I kept switching it off each day. I woiuld let the girls go first to the pool one day and then the boys the next.. I need to look up some recipes for what others put in theirs and try it.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137464)
• United States
4 Feb 22
@sweetashoney When I was 18, I worked at KFC and made the salads for the store. I copied all their recipes and still use them.