How many people still can their own food? Boy we canned some killer dill pickles from some cucumbers out of the garden!
Does pickling and storing dead relatives in the basement count? If so I'm prepared to join in your forum chat.
My friends dad cans like everything and apparently makes the best dill pickles which I think is pretty lit
Whatever is lying around. Just old stuff out the cupboard without labels. It keeps it interesting. My biggest problem is getting big enough jars. If anyone can help with that I'd be very grateful. What spices would you recommend? I want to give them out as Christmas gifts so I'm thinking cinnamon.
He's talking about pickling people ...not canning food for mass retail sale. Chef Boyardee is disgusting. Basically anything that comes in a can is gross. Canning was prevalent throughout the 50's 60's & 70's even 80's. It's how most people in urban areas of the USA got their veggies. Outside of rural areas there just wasn't much outlet for consumers to buy fresh produce. Local sourcing of food for retail sale became more the norm starting in the 90's even though wholesale distribution become more efficient. "Pickling" has become an increasingly food trendy thing to do in the last 5-7 years or so. It started out as a way of preserving food without refrigeration. Now it's a food trend. ...not that that is bad. I make Kinchi ...traditional & vegan (lol ...no fish sauce ie: I use dietary yeast and amino acid to rreplace the glutamine and nucleotides neccassary for the "full flavor" ) ...I also make my own ginger beer (not pickling of course ...but still fermented) iPhone
If you're gonna eat food from a can (I highly suggest you don't) make sure the can is not dented, eating food from dented cans causes botchalism (prob spelled that wrong) and can easily kill you. Also never eat canned food that contains tomatoes. The acid in tomatoes reacts with the metal lining of the can and causes some weird health problems ...that i can't remember offhand. Tomatoes are one of the best foods you can eat to ward off cancer ...just not from cans. Eat them fresh or processsed and sold in glass jars.