Upstate Legends! The Story Of Grandma Brown’s Baked Beans!

It was the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Lulu Brown lived in a small hamlet in Oswego County in Upstate New York.  Times were tough, she had a family to feed, and choices had to be made.  So she created a line of home baked beans that would, over time, become a "food superstar" in Central New York.

She began cooking her beans on two stoves in the back of her little dress shop, and she sold them in local small grocery stores serving them up by the pound from open baking pans.  Soon, her beans were so popular that many people stocked the trunks of their cars with cases of them to take to Florida with them in the winter.  Major stores sold them, and her name and product became the stuff of legends.

But what happened!

Grandma Brown's Baked Beans have disappeared from the store shelves, her factory in Mexico, NY is closed, and there are no plans to bring the food item back.  And the public is not a bit happy about that!

Here is the true story of Lulu Brown and "her magic beans."  She was a beloved member of her community who gave funds to a variety of causes for youth and school programs and civic organizations.  But her name and her beans have been linked together for almost a century.

The public is hungry for answers about the disappearance of their beloved beans.  But are there any real answers?  This gallery tells the remarkable story of a remarkable woman and her legendary addition to the Upstate New York food scene.

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