Baked beans..is a dish traditionally containing white beans which are boiled and then baked at a low temperature for a lengthy period of time in some sort of sauce.. and this is the usual preparation of the dish in the United States when not using canned beans..as Canned baked beans are not baked, but are cooked through a steam process. Today, baked beans are commonly served all throughout the United States alongside barbecue food of various kinds and at picnics... with the beans in a brown sugar, sugar, or corn syrup sauce. Sometimes with or with out a tomato base...But one company, located in Tennessee, would become the king of baked beans in the United States....selling more beans than anyone else... by producing 80% of the canned baked beans consumed in the United States.... Bush Brothers & Company...the most well known baked bean company...with its labeled Bush's Best....and not only does the company know their beans, they also expanded the old Bush General store into a museum and visitor center. And most might assume this place exist because of the talking dog Duke. But in fact...the museum is an outgrowth of AJ Bush's 1891 general store, and the cannery across the road that was built by AJ. And despite the the museum being out in the middle of no-where. The museum churns through more than a thousand bean crazed visitors a day during the summer.. and according to its visitors. Its like visiting the Emerald City from the Wizard of OZ.

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Researched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Roadside America "Story 36360" Pigeon Forge TN Cabins "Bush Visitor Center Tennessee" TN Magazine "The Best They Can" Telli Co Life "Bush Bean Museum" Wikipedia "Bush Brothers and Company" TN Home and Farm "Behind the Beans at Bush Brothers Company" Bush Beans "Visitor Center" Wikipedia "Baked Beans"

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