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  • There are a wide variety of canned beans. Kidney beans, pinto beans, chili beans, northern beans, baked beans, etc. Refried beans are just cooked, mashed and seasoned pinto beans, no different then the ones you get at a Mexican restaurant, usually called "frijoles". They are still the same. I don't believe there is any such thing as just "fried beans." I think you may have been under the impression that all canned beans were called "refried." I hope I have clarified this for you.
  • On a separate note, the "refried" term is a mistranslation of the full name of the Mexican dish: frijoles refritos. The "re-" in refritos is a qualifier similar to our use of the word "really" (as in "really fried").
  • The English term "refried", often interpreted as "fried again", is a mistranslation of the Spanish prefix re- as a shortening of the word "refrito", meaning "over". In fact, the beans are fried only once and the term refrito is actually a reference to overfrying the bean paste so that it dries out to retain a shape for serving purposes:

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