Oft used examples are milk, bread and, at one time in the UK, baked beans.
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But attach them to millions of cans of baked beans, and the cost starts to mount up.
For breakfast, the poached emu steak is served with bacon, eggs, toast, baked beans and a sauce made from wild bush tomatoes.
He got facially splattered with baked beans but after an apology and an explanation from Chris he has forgiven him.
They beckoned the Brits with a full English breakfast of porridge, poached eggs, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage and baked beans.
It also believes it does not suit the brand image to sell the designer jeans alongside tins of baked beans.
The food parcel includes baked beans, soup, vegetables, spaghetti and desserts and is mainly donated from schools and the church congregation.
Sir Jimmy will wear a tracksuit and bring his own food into the house - two cans of baked beans - and cigars.
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Chris Bentley wanted to take part in this special ritual last year but could only get his hands on a half-eaten tin of baked beans.
Someday, he suggested, tongue in cheek, you might find that a can of baked beans will be worth more than a bar of gold.
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It seems like we should have a picnic. (Applause.) Who's got the chicken? (Laughter.) A little chicken, a little potato salad, baked beans.
Whereas Warren Buffett searches for companies with a sustainable franchise that trade below their intrinsic value, HFT might as well be buying and selling baked beans.
Picnic tables will groan underneath the weight of piles of cole slaw, potato salad, baked beans, fresh tomatoes out of the garden and spectacularly decorated red, white and blue cupcakes.
Heinz, which is famous for its own-brand baked beans and tomato ketchup, said it remained confident that its takeover of HP Foods would eventually be approved by the UK's competition authorities.
In Maine, Kevin Grant has been tapping birch trees on his property in Ripley for six or seven years, and he and his wife enjoy the results in baked beans, beer and other recipes.
At lunch I sipped a glass of the rich, fruity stuff along with a delicious meal of baked beans (lobia), fried potatoes, eggplant, green leeks, and puffy Georgian flat bread -- all homemade, all home-grown.
The baked bean index - my colleague Anthony Reuben noted in the spring how the value of sales of baked beans - a classic recession food - had risen 21.6% in April compared with the same month last year.
"As a result of the merger, retail customers and consumers could suffer from less competition resulting in higher prices for products such as HP brown sauce, tomato ketchup and baked beans, " said Vincent Smith, the OFT's head of competition enforcement.
Earlier this month, he unveiled his newest product, Sneaky Snacks ("Snacks With Benefits"), a baked cheese puff fortified with powdered navy beans and designed for kids.
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