Heinz has made baked beans for many years, and they've been used to make countless recipes, but the best way to get the most ...

The canned version became a massively ... but what tasters really enjoyed was Heinz’s, well, plainness. The beans didn’t have the pork and smoke flavor typical of American-style beans.

Heinz had to pause the production of cans that featured bacon, but consumers' taste for beloved pork in beans never disappeared, and those salty little bits later returned to packages. In the decades ...