In message , Mack A. Damia
writes

Spam is okay but as I age (I'm 62) I find that I notice (and can
taste) the enormous amounts of sodium in canned goods - especially
Spam. For example, a small can of baked beans supplies over 100% of
the recommended daily allowance of sodium. I can feel my body swell
up from just reading the label.

I think it was Mr Pennington, a food technician, who recommended
draining baked beans. His view was that the baked beans were fine, that
the problem was with all the crap: salt, sugar, msg, tomato paste etc in
the sauce. He maintained that there was far too much sugar and sauce
used as a bulking mouth-appeal agent in baked beans anyway and that one
was unlikely to notice the removal of most of it anyway.

Mrs Montage of the Full Monty Fame in Monty's Caff, Lennox Street,
Bognor Regis, drains baked beans as a matter of course so that her fine
breakfasts aren't swimming in the stuff. As a bonus it makes her
breakfast plates easier to
clean.

--
James Follett