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Way cool brand on the shelves at Albertson’s. It’s a 15 oz. can of ConAgra’s Ranch Style Brand Beans. Apparently, the SKU has been on the shelves of American supermarkets since 1935.
Here here for ConAgra, keeping an old friend on the shelves! The product is labeled Con Agra Foods Inc., Dallas. They make different varieties, including Ranch Style Beans with Jalapenos, Ranch Style Beans with Sweet Onion, Black Beans, Pinto Beans with Jalapenos, Premium Pinto Beans and Blackeye Peas.
According to the ConAgra site, the Ranch Style brand traces its origins to a commissary established in 1872 in Denison, Texas.
“Ranch Style Beans’ versatility has endeared them to generations of bean lovers, including the rich and famous. Elizabeth Taylor, Humphrey Bogart, and Grace Kelly have ordered them. According to local lore, Ranch Style Beans were served at President Lyndon Johnson’s ranch on many occasions.”
Got to love the quote that says the guy on the front of the can, at left, is Appetite Pleasin’.
And they are.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Bunny Tomerlin // May 8, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Garland,
I buy Ranch Style Beans all of the time. They are my favorites! Great post!
Bunny Tomerlin
2 Homesick Texan // Jun 24, 2008 at 3:19 pm
They used to be “Husband Pleasin’” until the 80′s or so. I love them!
3 Joe // Aug 12, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Too bad they caved in to be politically correct in their advertising. I suppose the homosexuals (or whatever) found it offensive. Nevertheless, the beans still taste good.
4 cmsix // Nov 22, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Before we all became so politically correct guy who now says “Appetite Pleasin” said “Husband Pleasin”
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5 cmsix // Nov 22, 2008 at 1:19 pm
No matter what Con Agra says now “Ranch Style Beans” were originally and for decades canned in Ft Worth. Way back when I could still work I was a truck drive and delivered the raw beans to the plant there from Nebraska, forty-four thousand pounds at a time
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6 Matt // Sep 19, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Yeah Joe, probably those damned homosex-shuls!
Couldn’t possibly be the fact that “Husband Pleasin” on the can clearly is directed at a housewife shopping, and they’re not the only ones who do shopping these days. One phrase is targeted at a specific consumer, the other applies to anyone with an appetite. Maybe it pleases the wifes appetite too, ever think of that?
Or maybe you force your wife to do everything for you while you sit at the computer and try to connect a can of beans to some kind of homosexual agenda in your redneck head.
7 Joe // Sep 23, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Hey Matt, Its sounds like queer pleasin is just your game.
8 Matt // Oct 4, 2009 at 12:13 am
It’s basic marketing, narrow market (women buying beans for their husbands) to broad market (all consumers of canned beans).
I was saying it’s funny you think the reason for this is because of, your words, “the homosexuals”. Joe, you are disconnected from reality. Do not pass go. Do not collect $500.
I avoided outright calling you a biggot, but hey keep it up. It’s pretty funny watching you go like this.
9 Anonymous // Nov 4, 2009 at 9:02 pm
gee matt you don’t sound far from joe, like pot calling kettle black
10 Linda // Nov 25, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Sure hate to see them go, can we get the recipe?
11 The Fort Worth Ranch Style Beans Explosion | BrandlandUSA // Jan 16, 2010 at 9:06 pm
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12 harold hutton // May 5, 2010 at 12:44 pm
why did ya’ll stop making your ranchero beans and will you ever make them again. I used to by them by the case.
thanks
harold
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