#cannedfood — Public Fediverse posts

North Texas Food Bank and State Fair of Texas Rally Fairgoers to Help Fight Hunger Through “Feed the Need” https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/49954/ #CannedFood #FoodDrive #HungerRelief #NorthTexas #NorthTexasFoodBank #PeanutButter #StateFairOfTexas #Texas #TexasFood

Can you sing the Spam song before pushing play?
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#ILikeSpam #Spam #Jingles #TvCommercial #Cannedfood #Retro #Vintage

Food drive coming to Northeast Ohio — here’s how you can help https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/28075/ #CannedFood #FirstFinancial #FirstFinancialBank #FoodDrive #NortheastOhio #Ohio #OhioDining #OhioFood #OhioGroceryStores #OhioRestaurants #WJW

Britain Wants Tins In The Cupboard. That Is Not The Same As A War Order.

Polymarket told its audience on Friday that the UK government is urging people to stockpile canned food and…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #cannedfood #drinkingwater
https://www.europesays.com/britain/127171/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/127171/ Britain Wants Tins In The Cupboard. That Is Not The Same As A War Order. #Britain #CannedFood #DrinkingWater

Northeast Arkansas food bank to host food drive Saturday https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/12201/ #Arkansas #ArkansasDining #ArkansasFood #ArkansasGroceryStores #ArkansasRestaurants #CannedFood #NationalAssociationOfLetterCarriers #NonParishableFood #NortheastArkansas #StampOutHunger #TheFoodBankOfNortheastArkansas #UnitedStatesPostalService

The #1 Canned Food to Buy at Aldi, According to a Dietitian

Reviewed by Dietitian Katey Davidson, M.Sc.FN, RD, CPT Credit: Aldi. EatingWell design. Key Points A dietitian recommends Northern…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Aldi #calcium #cannedfood #fattyfish #omega-3fattyacids #sourceofprotein #Süd&Nord
https://www.europesays.com/germany/77992/

Does anyone know of a brand of canned chopped green chilies that does not come from the US?

#GreenChilies #CannedFood

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple”*…

Jason Toon on a man whose applied creativity birthed not one, but two major industries…

Global canned food sales are now more than $210 billion annually. The average American eats about 200 pounds of canned food every year. Meanwhile the worldwide paper industry has seen steep falls in the production of newsprint, printing paper, and writing paper since 2010, but the rise in paper and cardboard packaging has more than made up for it. The paper industry is bigger than ever, with revenue of $485 billion in 2025.

For better or worse, our world would simply not look the same today without these two industries. And one person was the key figure in starting both of them. Bryan Donkin can legitimately claim to be the “father” of the canned-food industry and the paper industry as we know them. So who was he, besides one of the very few guys named Bryan in the 18th century?

Born in northeastern England in 1768, Bryan Donkin went into the same business as his father: real estate. But it didn’t speak to him. So in 1792, at the rather ripe age of 24, he became an apprentice to John Hall at Dartford Iron Works to pursue his true calling as an engineer.

At the time, all paper was made by hand, more or less the same way it had been done since the Middle Ages. Cotton and linen rags were soaked in water and beaten into a pulp. A shallow, rectangular mold with a screen bottom would be dipped into the liquid slurry and shaken. A thin layer of the macerated fibers would settle on the screen; when dry, you’d have yourself a single sheet of paper.

Donkin started his post-apprenticeship career making these molds. But around 1801, he got connected to the Fourdrinier brothers, who produced stationery in London. They’d made a deal with a French inventor, Louis-Nicolas Robert, to bring a new paper-making machine to Britain. At the time, between the post-revolutionary turmoil in France and England’s more advanced industrial base, the latter seemed to hold more lucrative prospects for the new invention.

Unlike the laborious single-sheet, mold-based method, this new “Fourdrinier machine” used a cylinder to continuously produce rolls of paper. A mechanism called the “shake” agitated the conveyor belt at a high speed, to spread the wet pulp fibers in an even layer. Unfortunately, this rapid movement put a lot of strain on the mostly wooden machine. One of Donkin’s improvements was to use metal parts instead, for improved stability and precision.

Another refinement of his was adjusting the rollers that squeezed the water out of the paper, to maximize contact between them and the paper, to dry the paper more quickly and thoroughly. This and other improvements turned the Fourdrinier machine from an interesting prototype to a viable technical advancement.

It quickly became the industry standard, and remains so over 200 years later. The publishing boom of the late 19th and early 20th century wouldn’t have been possible without it. Those big machines you see today producing rolls of paper are most likely Fourdrinier machines. Donkin also made some key advancements in printing technology, so the Pulitzers and Murdochs of the world owe him double gratitude.

His fortune secured, now the head of a company bearing his name that still exists (these days they make gas valves), Donkin’s restless mind turned to another puzzle: the preservation of food. Like too many technological quests, this one was spurred by military needs. Best frenemies England and France were both spreading their empires around the planet, frequently clashing, and looking for ways to keep their troops fed. In such wide-ranging conflicts as the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), far more sailors died of malnutrition than in combat.

It seems yet another French inventor had visions of pounds sterling dancing in his eyes. Philippe de Girard had come up with a method of preserving food by putting in inside a sealed tin container, then boiling the container in water to sterilize it. Or maybe he swiped the method from another French inventor, Nicolas Appert [see here]. Or maybe they were in cahoots. What we do know is that in 1810, de Girard went to London and engaged a merchant named Peter Durand to be his frontman for getting a British patent, which de Girard would not have been eligible for since Britain and France were at war.

Durand was duly awarded the patent in his name. Ever since, he’s been often called the inventor of the tin can, despite having nothing to do with inventing it, and doing nothing with it except selling the patent for £1,000 in 1812. The buyer? Bryan Donkin’s old apprenticeship master, John Hall.

Now on equal terms as budding titans of industry, Hall put up the money and Donkin provided the brains along with a third partner, John Gamble, to bring tin canning to an industrial scale. Again, it took a couple of years, but Donkin and Gamble steadily refined the process. One of their major innovations was to use iron coated in a thin layer of tin, combining the strength of the former with the non-reactive properties of the latter for an imperturbable can that could survive the longest, roughest ocean voyages.

For the second time, a French invention plus Donkin’s enhancements equaled le jackpot. After getting the likes of Queen Charlotte and the Duke of Wellington hooked with some free samples of canned beef, the firm of Donkin, Hall and Gamble received an order for 156 pounds of canned food from the Admiralty in 1813. That grew to 2,939 pounds the following year, increasing annually to 9,000 pounds by 1821.

Having bested the canning challenge, Donkin again wandered off in search of other worlds to conquer: helping Charles Babbage with the “difference engine” that would eventually become the computer, consulting on bridge and canal projects, inventing the first metal pen and a screw-cutting machine, being a founding member of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Astronomical Society.

He died in 1855, an esteemed eminence in Victorian scientific and engineering circles. Today Bryan Donkin’s impact is out of all proportion to his memory. On a visit to his grave in London, the BBC found, [there was] no mention of his achievements. Cemetery staff didn’t know who he was.

I can sense the question from some quarters of the audience: are Bryan Donkin’s achievements worth celebrating? Not only did canned food help enable imperial conquest and war, it also led eventually to the mass industrialization of food production, with its attendant crises of public health and monocultural farming, and our psychological distance from our food supply. And one look at any municipal dump will show you how much paper and cardboard waste still goes into landfill, even in a supposedly “paperless world”.

Those points are well taken. But it’s easier to dismiss these advancements when you live in a world that’s always known them. Over the last century or two, large-scale paper production enabled the rise of mass literacy, from only 10% of the world’s population being literate in 1820 to 90% today.

And it’s not just British seamen who eat better because of canned food. A 2011-2013 National Institutes of Health study found that people who eat six or more canned items a week “consume more nutrient-dense food groups such as fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and protein-rich foods, and also have higher intakes of 17 essential nutrients” including potassium, calcium, and fiber. Canned food has helped overcome the tyrannies of distance and time to get more nutrition to more people.

From the perspective of people in 1810, both food canning and mass paper production were immense steps forward. We can’t lay our subsequent inability to maintain some equilibrium at their feet. It’s true that Bryan Donkin didn’t invent the machines he perfected. Both industries probably would have happened, in some form, eventually, without him. But in being the first to perfect them for large-scale use, and granting all the downsides they’ve brought along with them, he hastened the coming of a less hungry, more educated world. Not bad for a guy named Bryan…

How one genius fathered both the canning and paper industries: “The Lives of Bryan,” from @jasontoon.bsky.social.

* Willy Wonka (in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

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As we devise, we might send carefully-calculated birthday greetings to Dan Bricklin; he was born on this date in 1951. An engineer, he was the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program. Known as “the father of the Spreadsheet,” he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1981 for VisiCalc and was one of six people spotlighted when “the Computer” was named “Machine of the Year” by Time magazine in 1982.

Neither Bricklin nor Frankston reaped huge financial profits from their spreadsheet program, though it sold over a half-million copies by 1983. At the time, copyright protection was not generally sought for software; their company was subsequently acquired by Lotus 1-2-3, which became the new spreadsheet standard (until, of course, Excel).

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#PearArt #FruitArt #VintageArt #FarmhouseDecor #KitchenDecor #Cottagecore #ShabbyChic #KitchenWallArt #LisaSBaker #BuyIntoArt #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativetoots #pears #fruit #food #cannedfood #cannedfruit

Doing some of this myself!

The Last of Winter: Using Up Your Home #Canned and #FrozenFoods

April 9, 2026, Sandra Mitchell, #UMaineExtension

"By the time April rolls around, the rhythm of the kitchen begins to shift. The bins of stored vegetables—once full in the fall—are noticeably lighter. The onions have softened, a few potatoes have begun to sprout, and the last of the carrots are tucked into the corners of the crisper drawer. In the freezer, bags of berries and containers of soup remain, but their number is dwindling. Shelves that held neatly stacked jars of tomatoes, beans, and pickles now show gaps. This is the quiet end of the storage season.

For those who preserve food, April is not a time of abundance. It is a time of assessment, creativity, and careful use—a moment to take stock of what remains and use it well, while maintaining food safety and quality.

Taking Inventory: What Do You Have Left?

Before planning meals or preservation projects, it is worth taking a deliberate inventory of stored foods:

- Root vegetables (potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, winter squash)
- Frozen produce (berries, vegetables, prepared meals, stocks)
- Home-canned goods (vegetables, fruits, sauces, soups, pickles) [Also store-bought canned foods -- check dates and make sure cans aren't bulging or rusted]

As you assess, check for quality and safety:

- Discard root vegetables that are soft, moldy, or show signs of rot
- Remove sprouts and green portions from potatoes before use
- Examine home-canned jars for seal integrity and discard any with signs of spoilage (bulging lids, leakage, or off-odors)
- Use frozen foods that have been well-wrapped and free of freezer burn first

This process not only ensures safety but helps guide how to use remaining foods efficiently."

https://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/2026/04/09/the-last-of-winter-using-up-your-home-canned-and-frozen-foods/

#SolarPunkSunday #UMaineCooperativeExtension #FoodWaste #FoodSecurity #Recipes #FoodPreservation #CannedFood #FrozenFood #FoodSafety #FoodStorage

#UMaineCooperativeExtension - 6 Fast Recipes for That Can of #Beans in Your Pantry

by Alex Gayton, January 8, 2026

"Many of us have had it happen—you buy a can of beans that you think you will use eventually, but alas, it has been in the pantry for months. It’s easy for me to say use your can of beans to make your own hummus, but something tells me that if you have a can of beans not used, this will be too much effort compared to buying a store-bought hummus – confession, I hardly ever make homemade hummus, it’s just too much work for me. Here are 6 quick, low-effort recipes you can make with those pantry beans right now."

Learn more:
https://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/2026/01/08/6-fast-recipes-for-that-can-of-beans-in-your-pantry/

#SolarPunkSunday #RecipesOnABudget #CannedBeans #FoodSecurity #FoodWaste #LowEffortRecipes #ChickpeaPotPie #Recipes #BlackBeas #BlackBeanBrownies #BlackBeanBurgers #VegetarianChili #VegetarianRecipes #CannedFood

Northeast Arkansas food bank to host food drive Saturday

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas is asking area residents to participate in its annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #cannedfood #nationalassociationoflettercarriers #Non-ParishableFood #NortheastArkansas #stampouthunger #TheFoodBankofNortheastArkansas #UnitedStatesPostalService
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2628318/northeast-arkansas-food-bank-to-host-food-drive-saturday/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/603497/ Germany news: Minister sounds alarm on food security #AFD #AloisRainer #CannedFood #CriticalInfrastructure #EU #Europe #FoodProducers #FoodSupply #Germany #RolandPoseck

Steam powered pumpkins might have been good enough for your father, but modern youth demand Electric Pumpkins!

c 1880s label for Electric Brand Canned Goods.

#1880s #electricity #cannedFood #Advertising

Those two canned bean companies should simply swap their labels. Or be sued for misinformation.

#cannedfood

https://www.alojapan.com/1174414/canned-garlic-scallop-shorts/ Canned Garlic Scallop #shorts ##カルディ #asmr #CannedFood #eating #garlic #Japan #JapaneseStuffChannel #JapaneseStuffChannel #jsc #kaldy #nerd #oddlysatisfying #scallop #Weird #ホタテのアヒージョ #福袋 #缶詰 Canned Garlic Scallop #shorts Canned Garlic Scallop. It’s garlicky and spicy. I got it from Kaldy lucky bag. #cannedfood, #japanesefood, #asmr, #japanesestuffchannel …

1983 advertisement for Franco-American UFO spaghetti-os
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#UFOs #Advertisement #FrancoAmerican #Food #CannedFood #Retro #Vintage #eighties #80s

Finally a brand that tells it like it is!

#parody #cannedFood #WernerHerzog #existentialism #humor #humour #satire

Corn on the Cob or Canned Corn?
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Green Giant Niblets ad (1960)
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#Corn #GreenGiant #CannedFood #Retro #Vintage #Advertisement #Food

What's for dinner tonight?
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1918 Del Monte Canned Asparagus ad
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#DelMonte #Asparagus #advertisement #CannedFood #Artwork #Retro #Vintage #Food #Vegetables

I don’t want to cook 😐
Kind of emergency food 🤔

#CannedFood #ShellFish #Mackerel #Fish #Nattō #Japanese #Japan #Food

Well, that actually didn't suck as much as expected. "Why would you?", you might ask. My choices are my own and mainly driven by #whimsy and #curiosity.

#cannedfood #kuljanka #lidl

Which one will you try first, and which one will you try last? No skippy.

#vintagefood #cannedfood #vintage #antique #chicken #pudding

What's for dinner?
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Chicken of the Sea Tuna, with Tuna Florentine recipe, 1981
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#Dinner #ChickenOfTheSea #Tuna #Advertisement #food #cannedFood

Since #Canning season is upon us, a lot of university Ag Extensions are warning folks that #Vinegar with 5% acidity is getting harder to find, and your #CannedFood will not have a safe shelf life if you skimp.

https://extension.sdstate.edu/safety-concern-vinegar-acidity-level-home-canning

#Harvest #Gardening #Homesteading

Hill's horse meat with gravy (1964) 🐴
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#horses #dogsofmastodon #cannedfood #vintage #retro #food #catsofmastodon