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What's the story with canned food?

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  • #32
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Does beer have to be bottled? I drink cans of Guinness and they are lovely.

    I don't like canned lager.
    Guinness is OK.


  • #33
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Are there any items that you can only get in a can?

    Baked beans perhaps? And I don't mean that 'artisan' rubbish. Just regular baked beans.


  • #34
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Jazlyn Jealous Soil wrote: »
    Are there any items that you can only get in a can?

    Baked beans perhaps? And I don't mean that 'artisan' rubbish. Just regular baked beans.

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  • #35
    shar01
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭shar01


    Ye'll be delighted with canned goods when the fresh food is rotting on the quays after Brexit :D


  • #36
    Marcusm
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    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I don't like canned lager.
    Guinness is OK.

    Bottled lager deteriorates quicker than canned.


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  • #37
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,353 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    kneemos wrote: »
    Closet I've come to death was from a tin of mackeral fillets.
    Three days to recover.

    A friend of mine was very nearly killed by frozen chicken .


    A pallet of frozen chickens fell on him in a food distribution plant.


  • #38
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jazlyn Jealous Soil wrote: »
    Are there any items that you can only get in a can?

    Baked beans perhaps? And I don't mean that 'artisan' rubbish. Just regular baked beans.


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  • #39
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Nothing exclusively in a can so?

    That full breakfast in a can looks disgusting.


  • #40
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    The only canned stuff I eat is tinned fish, usually pink salmon, tuna and those little rectangle mackerel things in oil. Also I eat baked beans BUT I put them in a sieve and let 90% of the tomato sauce run off. They taste just as nice that way and beans are nutritious.

    Those meals in a can like stew, meatballs etc must be pure muck. Wouldn't touch those.


  • #41
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Fray Bentos is really tasty. Hate to think what's in it though.


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  • #42
    Thelonious Monk
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    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    What?
    I'm constantly eating the stuff.

    Did you leave it for a while after opening?

    I used to live on canned mack. So many flavours available these days too. Ortiz as you mentioned earlier is the absolute bomb, I treat myself the odd time to a can!


  • #43
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,678 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    kneemos wrote: »
    Fray Bentos is really tasty. Hate to think what's in it though.

    Fray Bentos is a city in Brazil did you know?


  • #44
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Fray Bentos is a city in Brazil did you know?

    Uruguay.


  • #45
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,678 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Katalina Rough Gypsy wrote: »
    Uruguay.

    No you are


  • #46
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    If you were to subtract the metal elements from a tin of food, you have a 'thin plastic bag' of foodstuffs.
    The interior metal rarely touches any of the contents (not an ideal situation to have tomatoes rubbing up on aluminum).

    Hence always check the BBD and avoid any that appear damaged incase it deteriorates the internal BPA coating stuff.
    Fine once in a while, but not everyday.


  • #47
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Del2005 wrote: »
    The whole point of the can is that you don't need salt or preservatives. So why would they add to the cost of production by using canning and preservatives when they could just use preservatives?
    Napoleon got bottled food going back in 1809
    The can was invented the following year.


    And the food simply had to last because the can opener wasn't invented until 1855.


  • #48
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Chicken in a can is the stuff of nightmares.



  • #49
    Pwindedd
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    Ya can’t beat a tin of lychees IMO. No peeling, no stones and taste the same as fresh. Hard to find though.


  • #50
    kowloon
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Pretty horrific story about what can go wrong with early attempts at canned food... lead poisoning and improperly sealed cans during the 1845 expedition to the Arctic by HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
    https://www.historytoday.com/archive/canned-food-sealed-icemens-fate

    Book out about that not so long ago, it's on my in tray.
    kneemos wrote: »
    Fray Bentos is really tasty. Hate to think what's in it though.

    A few tribes that opposed cutting down the forest to make room for pasture might have supplied some of the meat.


  • #51
    BuboBubo
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    canned tomatoes and pineapple are absolutely essential in ireland as the fresh versions we get here are dreadful

    Have to agree, most fresh tomatoes are tasteless and pineapple tends to have mould on its underside by the time it gets to the supermarket shelves.

    Tried growing tomatoes a few years ago but they got blight and rotted before my eyes.

    I'll stick to the tinned stuff, I'm partial to tinned peaches too, and chickpeas.


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  • #52
    mvl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    in other countries ppl might be stocking on canned stuff for emergency food pantry.

    in here we seem to prefer stocking on bread :)


  • #53
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    The ultimate Christmas feast.


    https://youtu.be/iaICKru7DfQ


  • #54
    JupiterKid
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    A lot of tinned veg, fruit and soups are perfectly fine. Some tinned meat can be dodgy.

    Take a look at the “whole canned chicken” by American food company Sweet Sue. Looks like something from an Alien film. Yummmm!!,

    kl1mpo7is3h11.jpg


  • #55
    Graces7
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    A lot of tinned veg, fruit and soups are perfectly fine. Some tinned meat can be dodgy.

    Take a look at the “whole canned chicken” by American food company Sweet Sue. Looks like something from an Alien film. Yummmm!!,

    kl1mpo7is3h11.jpg

    Poor wee bird :eek: Would hesitate even to give that to my cats..

    But in a remote place, tins are needful. beans! and not expensive Heinz,, peas, processed and mushy.... add a spoon ful of concentrated mint sauce...soup is the one thing I am choosy about as apart from tomato most are *****has to be Baxters.. condensed and evaporated milk... all great standbys..Oh and cat food, rather than that dreadful dried stuff...When I pop a can they come running.. ;)


  • #56
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    A lot of tinned veg, fruit and soups are perfectly fine. Some tinned meat can be dodgy.

    Take a look at the “whole canned chicken” by American food company Sweet Sue. Looks like something from an Alien film. Yummmm!!,

    kl1mpo7is3h11.jpg
    That resembles a chicken a bit more then the video i posted! but still disgusting!


  • #57
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    tinned peaches. whats not to love.
    mushy peas. yum.
    i love tinned food:)


  • #58
    mvl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    A lot of tinned veg, fruit and soups are perfectly fine. Some tinned meat can be dodgy.

    Take a look at the “whole canned chicken” by American food company Sweet Sue. Looks like something from an Alien film. Yummmm!!,


    thought confit (such as duck confit) can be ok though - can be preserved in either in a jar or a can, as long as its kept in own fat should be fine.


  • #59
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,596 ✭✭✭Feisar


    sullivlo wrote: »
    A friend of mine is stereotypically French and she adores snails. Obviously we don't get them in Ireland, but she buys tinned snails in some mad exclusive shop in France. They're about €50 a can but they're actually quite tasty. They don't come in shells so she has a collection of shells that she puts them into if she's serving them at a party.

    She could collect in the garden

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #60
    somefeen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Fray Bentos is a city in Brazil did you know?

    I call them fray benthos.

    Because you eat them when you're at rock bottom...


    Its a science joke, benthos is the....I'll get my coat


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  • #61
    Lackadaisical
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭Lackadaisical


    That chicken! I think you've just turned me vegetarian!

    Maybe that's the post Brexit chicken the UK will be getting lol


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