Her favorite casserole is the 'green bean casserole' with canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and canned 'fried' onion rings mixed together and baked

I am with Maryrrf and Ruth on this one. Ugghh. And my very English partner loves this dish, though I make it with fresh green beans.

Still I would rather just have the beans. If they must be dressed up then add fresh chestnut mushrooms sauteed with little olive oil and fresh garlic.

It isn't a spread. It comes in slabs and it's not meant for eating in chunks

It is not meant for eating at all.. Come on! This is what the thread is about. Definitely not for human consumption. We should be sharing other good uses. If only I could think of some.

On the eating in the US point..... finding decent food when staying in motels/hotels in small towns in VA, NC, GA is a bit difficult. Especially if one is a vegetarian and both avoid processed food like the plague. All the bread in the US has sugar in it. I never knew how nice real bread tastes until I moved to UK. It was difficult to find restaurants to cater to vegetarian as well.

Luckily it was summer so we bought a lot of fresh fruit and veg (carrots, celery, cherry tomoatoes, cukes). I must say though that the fresh fruit and veg tastes better in UK than the supermarket stuff in US.