Say NO to Cold Beans

Stop giving me cold beans!

I dislike lukewarm food in general so I'm always disappointed when it happens but especially so with baked beans. It is one of my food peeves and it keeps happening recently, including my breakfast at a Travelodge this morning. I know, I know, it was a Travelodge, but come on - all of the 'hot' food items were kept under separate chafing-style dishes and we went down to eat 10 minutes after breakfast was first being served!

Baked beans should be piping hot, not stone cold or worse still, lukewarm. I should come with a label when I go out to eat - 'Check food is piping hot before serving Hungry Jenny'. Yes, baked beans can be eaten cold and I'm sure some people wouldn't moan about this like I do, but it does make me feel irrationally aggravated. Why, why, WHY, I always fume, as I shovel cold beans down, in an attempt to rid them from my memory (yet not let them go to waste).

It's just that initial cold slop feeling you get when you put that first forkful of those unassuming beans in your mouth. Instant disappointment.