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Cthulhu in a Can
30/05/2022 08:03 pmThe Cat has finally tempted the serpent with this delicious meme. Lots of people have complained about how bland and boring it is but I found it quite fascinating to be frank.
It certainly had me thinking outside of the box. Even if I am a week later than everyone else with the can opener.
1. Do you buy and use canned food?
Not too often. They are handy to have for a quick fix or the zombie apocalypse.
But if cans also includes glass jars then my answer would be completely different. Because I am a peanut butter junkie. The 100% stuff with a smidgeon of salt. No emuslifiers, no palm oil and definitely no sugar.
2. What is your favourite canned food?
Baked beans and chickpeas. Tomatoes for a quick fix pasta sauce.
Stuff in glass jars or bottles - red wine, peanut butter, pickled gherkins, pickled onions and sun dried tomatoes.
3. Do you like some canned food better than the fresh or dried version of it?
Canned and fresh tomatoes are a totally different beast. The flavour is completely different. Canned tomatoes taste much better then fresh when making pasta sauce.
I don't prefer canned apricots to fresh but the apricot season is so short and the critters are so expensive outside of that season that the tinned stuff is an obvious substitute.
I have just planted an apricot tree so with a bit of luck a few years from now I will have an extra few weeks of harvest.
I have both dried and tinned chickpeas in the pantry but the tinned stuff is much more convenient so the packets of dried chickpeas don't get much of a look in.
Tinned beetroot is also nicer and not as messy as the fresh stuff.
If glass jars are included, I will add artichokes and asparagus to the list because they are just so expensive and fussy to prepare from scratch.
4. Do you have a can that just sits at the back of the cupboard? has anything weird happened to it? or do you still plan on using it in the future?
The odd tin of Rotkohl and Grunkohl that I brought with me from Germany way back in the 1990s. Also some glass jars of Pflaumenmus. They are not bulging at the seams or decorating the ceiling with their contents but at this stage I prefer to regard them as some inedible science experiment.
5. What is the weirdest thing you have seen canned?
Most of the strangest stuff is to be found in Asian specialty stores. Abalone, squid and silkworm larvae come to mind as well as some pretty peculiar peanut and gluten concoctions.
But thanks to the Russian sanctions, I won't be encountering this critter any time soon.
I found a whole pantry full of these monstrosities online
I so hope that the possum is FAKE. That would be like finding a kitten in a can.
It certainly had me thinking outside of the box. Even if I am a week later than everyone else with the can opener.
1. Do you buy and use canned food?
Not too often. They are handy to have for a quick fix or the zombie apocalypse.
But if cans also includes glass jars then my answer would be completely different. Because I am a peanut butter junkie. The 100% stuff with a smidgeon of salt. No emuslifiers, no palm oil and definitely no sugar.
2. What is your favourite canned food?
Baked beans and chickpeas. Tomatoes for a quick fix pasta sauce.
Stuff in glass jars or bottles - red wine, peanut butter, pickled gherkins, pickled onions and sun dried tomatoes.
3. Do you like some canned food better than the fresh or dried version of it?
Canned and fresh tomatoes are a totally different beast. The flavour is completely different. Canned tomatoes taste much better then fresh when making pasta sauce.
I don't prefer canned apricots to fresh but the apricot season is so short and the critters are so expensive outside of that season that the tinned stuff is an obvious substitute.
I have just planted an apricot tree so with a bit of luck a few years from now I will have an extra few weeks of harvest.
I have both dried and tinned chickpeas in the pantry but the tinned stuff is much more convenient so the packets of dried chickpeas don't get much of a look in.
Tinned beetroot is also nicer and not as messy as the fresh stuff.
If glass jars are included, I will add artichokes and asparagus to the list because they are just so expensive and fussy to prepare from scratch.
4. Do you have a can that just sits at the back of the cupboard? has anything weird happened to it? or do you still plan on using it in the future?
The odd tin of Rotkohl and Grunkohl that I brought with me from Germany way back in the 1990s. Also some glass jars of Pflaumenmus. They are not bulging at the seams or decorating the ceiling with their contents but at this stage I prefer to regard them as some inedible science experiment.
5. What is the weirdest thing you have seen canned?
Most of the strangest stuff is to be found in Asian specialty stores. Abalone, squid and silkworm larvae come to mind as well as some pretty peculiar peanut and gluten concoctions.
But thanks to the Russian sanctions, I won't be encountering this critter any time soon.
I found a whole pantry full of these monstrosities online
I so hope that the possum is FAKE. That would be like finding a kitten in a can.
