Baked beans

Baked beans were a foodstuff on Earth.

History

In 1996, Amelia Pond cooked baked beans for the newly-regenerated Eleventh Doctor, but he spat them out in disgust, declaring, "Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans." (TV: The Eleventh Hour)

Bernie Harris had a can of baked beans in his Evelyn Street flat, which Owen Harper found hilarious. (TV: Ghost Machine)

Whilst eating a plate of baked beans, Clyde Langer asked Mr Smith to tell him about the Slitheen-Blathereen family. When Mr Smith recalled the Blathereen "farting themselves to death", Clyde jokingly asked if he would suffer the same fate. Mr Smith assured him that it was scientifically impossible for a human to be filled with methane on a scale that causes death in the manner of the Blathereen and it was safe to continue eating. (WC: Alien File: Blathereen)

Luke Smith told Sarah Jane, Clyde and Rani that his friends at the University of Oxford lived off baked beans and curry. Clyde remarked that it must be like living with the Slitheen. (TV: The Vault of Secrets)

Tins of baked beans were among the food kept in Anna's Sheffield flat. (TV: Arachnids in the UK)

When K9 Mark 2 was disabled by Dauntless Prison's defences, he fell in a dustbin. Some of the rubbish in it was baked beans. (TV: Liberation)

When Starkey was on the run from the Department, he cooked a tin of baked beans on a fire made from twigs. K9 decided to help with his photon beam, causing the baked beans to burst out. (TV: The Korven)

As K9 and Starkey went "walkies" while monitored by Alistair Gryffen, he reminisced about going to a cafe ten years before which served "the best baked bean sandwiches in London". K9 reacted to this stating, "Prognosis, gas." (TV: The Bounty Hunter)

Behind the scenes

• Doctor Who officially licensed baked beans were offered during the early Tom Baker era by Crosse & Blackwell. They came in standard 15.5 ounce cans, with labels that featured the Doctor Who logo alongside a drawing of the Fourth Doctor.