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brin_bellway) wrote2022-05-27 12:56 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2022-05-27 12:56 pm
Friday Five: May 27, 2022
[cw: food, (fairly mild) apocalypse, (arguably) unsanitary]
1. Do you buy and use canned food?
Hell yeah. Canned food is a miracle of science and I love that I live in a world where it exists. Last month I ate some peaches that were well over a year old and yet entirely undamaged by time and rot; it warms my heart to know that we are capable of making things that are so perfectly clean.
2. What is your favourite canned food?
Empirically, probably sardine fillets. I'm also fond of chickpeas, peaches, and the occasional cranberry jelly.
3. Do you like some canned food better than the fresh or dried version of it?
I haven't actually had fresh sardines, and I think I *might* have had dried chickpeas at some point but it's been a long time.
For Passover 2021 we had some fancy organic cranberry sauce in a jar and it was just not the same.
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?
Not yet! I do aspire to one day buy some cases of dried apples and potato flakes† from the Mormon cannery in Toronto and place them lovingly under my bed for the next apocalypse, but it's already too late to do so for this one.
5. What is the weirdest thing you have seen canned?
I've *heard of* canned bread and canned ground beef, but probably the weirdest one I've seen in person was palm hearts.
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†Leaning towards *not* buying canned dry pasta, instead keeping normal dry pasta (shelf life ~3 years) on a very long rotation. ↩
1. Do you buy and use canned food?
Hell yeah. Canned food is a miracle of science and I love that I live in a world where it exists. Last month I ate some peaches that were well over a year old and yet entirely undamaged by time and rot; it warms my heart to know that we are capable of making things that are so perfectly clean.
2. What is your favourite canned food?
Empirically, probably sardine fillets. I'm also fond of chickpeas, peaches, and the occasional cranberry jelly.
3. Do you like some canned food better than the fresh or dried version of it?
I haven't actually had fresh sardines, and I think I *might* have had dried chickpeas at some point but it's been a long time.
For Passover 2021 we had some fancy organic cranberry sauce in a jar and it was just not the same.
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?
Not yet! I do aspire to one day buy some cases of dried apples and potato flakes† from the Mormon cannery in Toronto and place them lovingly under my bed for the next apocalypse, but it's already too late to do so for this one.
5. What is the weirdest thing you have seen canned?
I've *heard of* canned bread and canned ground beef, but probably the weirdest one I've seen in person was palm hearts.
---
†Leaning towards *not* buying canned dry pasta, instead keeping normal dry pasta (shelf life ~3 years) on a very long rotation. ↩