History of canned foods

FDA ^ | ????? | Dale Blumenthal

[yesca]

Same w/soda pop, tasted much better in glass.

Still does, when you can find it.

Perhaps it will one of the good industries to start up after 2012?

[Lazlo in PA]

Didn’t know there was any interest. This pops up so infrequently here. Lucky if there is something every year.

[calex59]

C rations existed during WWII and Korea. What you probably got, however, were K rations. When I was in Germany(1959-1962)we got some C rations that had green lucky strike packages in them. Green were the color of Lucky packs before WWII, right after the war started Lucky changed the color of the pack with the slogan, “Lucky Strike has gone to war too!” We were leery about eating the rations but they were perfectly fine.

[JDoutrider]

Yep! You’re probably right... but Hey! Remembering nomenclature from 40 plus years ago is like anything else these days... my memory is but a memory! LOL!

[kitkat]

***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.***

I wonder what the sell-by dates are for. Is it because the manufacturer slightly changes the contents and wants the product to match current ads?

[plinyelder]

I have some C-rations from forty years ago.

Can’t bust the meat-loaf with a sledge but, add a little H2O and it taste .. (or no taste .. if you will) the same as it did in the Stink-Holes back in SE Asia!

[plinyelder]

Don’t know where you ate but We had C-2 Rations which were just repackaged or relabeled C (canned) Rations.

This was Nam 1968-71 and beyond.

We also had a lot of C-3’s and 4’s along with MCI’s and MRE’s laying around .. doing nothing but aging. 8)

[Bigg Red]

Many imported cans, however, still bear lead-soldered side seams. To tell whether a can has been soldered with lead....

**
My solution: I never buy foods imported from other countries.

[calex59]

Back in the day there were no MREs:).

[Bigg Red]

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.

[plinyelder]

Back in the day there were no MREs:).

My fault .. my son is responsible for bring them home.

[Petruchio]

A few years ago I purchased a skid of unused 1 gal. paint cans. They are great for storing dry goods. (rice, dried beans, etc.)

I put a golf ball sized chunk of dry ice in the bottom and fill with the dry food item. Loosely place the lid on. Wait until the bottom of the can warms up. Then seal the lid on.

The dry ice makes the bottom of the can cold. As it sublimates it fills the can with CO2 driving out all other gasses. When the can warms up, the ice is gone and all gasses have been replaced. The sealed food will keep for years.

This works well and saves a lot of money in the long run. I can buy a 50lb bag of dry beans, seal in cans, and only have one open at a time. The open can can be resealed and with the lid on bugs & mice can’t get into it.

[calex59]

Actually I was referring to my time in the service, I am sure they had MREs after Viet Nam started up. We had C rations and in the field, when we had a field kitchen, the mess had B rations, which were simply C rations packed into number 10 cans.:)

[Petruchio]

fixing my tagline.

Note to self: Pay Attention when typing on a @!#%@#$% laptop!

[afraidfortherepublic]

To: djf 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.

Isn't that the truth! My whole family came to visit for our 50th wedding anniversary celebration last year and the women conspired and threw away all my food! Stinkers!

[plinyelder]

No, you were correct. I do remember MCI's, K's and all the variations of C's.
I have to blame my youngest son for the MRE's 8)
I have ton's of this stuff that's been lying around .. for years.

(I don't want to get rid of it because .. We'll probably be needing it .. if the November elections don't break our way!) 8(

[WestwardHo]

I wonder what the sell-by dates are for.

Expiration dates began about 1970. All of a sudden we were all going to die because the stores were selling “spoiled” food. You know the drill. In consequence, almost everything has an ARBITARY date and tons of perfectly good food and medicines get dumped. Follow the money.
For a while, dumpster diving was great sport retrieving said items...until that was outlawed, as well.
It's an immoral policy when there are so many charities and places were the food and other things could be used.

[Red_Devil 232]

That sounds like a great way to store those bulk items!

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[ApplegateRanch]

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.