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I’m setting aside a few tuna “pouchs” for a century or so to compare to the almighty tin can.
Very informative. I’m saving this one.
Very informative. I’m saving this one.
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Seaman Buckman: [tasting contents of can] What's the matter sir? It still tastes like creamed corn.
Executive Officer Martin T. 'Marty' Pascal: Except it's - DEVILED HAM!
Seaman Buckman: Now that would be a problem.
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Next I'll take my dried zucchinis and put them in the FoodSaver that I got at Goodwill.
I keep trying to tell my kids that canned goods are perfectly safe well beyond their sell-by date, but the princesses won’t touch them.
During the Medieval period, the average middle-class kitchen often had a long, leather “trough” where they stored LIVE fish.
The fishmongers would come down from the mountains streams with their recent catches, still alive, and housewives would buy them to replenish their kitchen “aquarium.”
Ahhh, the good old days when my mom used to can every fall, everything she could get her hands on. Since we lived about 40 miles from the San Joaquin Valley we could get out hands on lots of stuff, cheap. Farmers markets(in the form of roadside stands)were plentiful and cheaper than the super markets of the day. Some stuff carried over for a couple of years at a time.
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I’m interested in the plastic jars they’re now using for things that had previously been packed in glass. I’ve noticed their use by date tends to be less and for some reason food packed in plastic for long shelf life creeps me out. I’ve also noticed they’ve changed the ingredients of some of the foods that are now packed in plastic that used to be packed in glass. And I’ve noticed stuff doesn’t taste as good.
Is this just me? Has anyone seen info about this switch to plastic for canning?
Many imported cans, however, still bear lead-soldered side seams. To tell whether a can has been soldered with lead....
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My solution: I never buy foods imported from other countries.
I seem to recall that when Sir John Franklin’s expedition met with disaster in the Arctic, there seems to have been a lot of crazy behavior on the part of the crew. I think a modern expedition exhumed bodies of crewmembers and concluded that they suffered lead poisoning from improperly soldered tins of food.
Kansas City, MO; same story: Steamboat Arabia sank the same way; finally got dug out of a corn field. Lots of well preserved canned goods on display in the museum.
We visited about 3 years ago.
I have a few jars of canned green beans in my gragae which are still ‘clear’ after ten years! I may open one and eat them this weekend. I’m told that one should wash the outside of an aged canning jar with boiling water before opening.
After Grandma passed in 1993, we found some jars of black berries that were supposed to be canned about 50 years before. Ma made great pies out of them.
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