# Bread in a can? What is this thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850 "2017-04-05T22:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/41 "2017-04-09T05:09:48Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > _That’s_ why McDonald’s can serve them up so quickly! I thought this was how they did it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/X4u9dv-YPzA/maxresdefault.jpg "McDonald's / Men's Underwear") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4u9dv-YPzA) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/42 "2017-04-09T05:21:16Z")
This thread reminded me of perfectly made potato chips in a can, otherwise known as Pringles: > **[Pringles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles)** > > Pringles is an American brand of stackable potato-based chips invented by Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1968 and marketed as "Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips". The brand was sold in 2012 to Kellogg's. > As of 2011, Pringles were sold in more than 140 countries. In 2012, Pringles were the fourth most popular snack brand after Lay's, Doritos and Cheetos (all manufactured by Frito-Lay), with 2.2% market share globally. > In 1956, Procter & Gamble assigned a task to chemist Fredric J. Baur (1918–2008... ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/43 "2017-04-09T05:31:10Z")
This [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_jVDAdfRs4) shows some people trying canned bread (skip ahead to 2:55). While they’re initially skeptical, several say the bread isn’t all that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/44 "2017-04-09T06:12:28Z")
My mother occasionally served some dishes she picked up in New England. Canned brown bread & Boston baked beans made an occasional light supper. The bread [looks pretty easy](http://www.marthastewart.com/1164284/boston-brown-bread) & might be worth baking “fresh.” (Mom would also cook parsnips when she found them; we were not impressed.) On one of Martha Stewart’s shows, she demonstrated how to cook & process fresh pumpkin for pie. Because she can do everything. Then she explained that you’d be insane not to use plain canned pumpkin, instead. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/45 "2017-04-09T06:41:32Z")
Now I’m craving brown bread. Family’s from MA, and I always loved it. I was just thinking about how I want a somewhat sweet, heavy non-wheat sort of bread to have with my morning coffee. Brown bread, how could I forget ye? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/46 "2017-04-09T07:01:48Z")
If you have this craving you can buy it at [walmart.com](http://walmart.com) or Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/47 "2017-04-10T00:26:54Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Being an Aussie, well pumpkin pie just isn’t a thing here and consequently have never seen pumpkin (nor bread) in a can. We can buy pumpkin all year round, and just yesterday bought a [butternut pumpkin](http://images.triality.com.au/LefroyValley/Commercial/A36B_D75D7B0A-07CF-4851-A3D1-F75A_Large.jpg) for 50c lb ($1 AUD per kilo). > > We roast, soup, curry, dip and do all sorts of things with pumpkin, just not pie. That’s not a pumpkin. That’s a squash. And I’ve never heard of squash pie - but there recipes for butternut squash roast, curry, and soup are plentiful. It tends to be more of a fall food, though. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/48 "2017-04-10T00:33:03Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > That’s not a pumpkin. That’s a squash. > And I’ve never heard of squash pie - but there recipes for butternut squash roast, curry, and soup are plentiful. It tends to be more of a fall food, though. Pumpkins are a squash. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/49 "2017-04-10T01:12:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Pumpkins are a squash. All pumpkins are squash. Not all squash are pumpkins. In American-speech, butternut squash is not pumpkin. Things might be different in Oz. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/50 "2017-04-10T21:36:33Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > All pumpkins are squash. Not all squash are pumpkins. In American-speech, butternut squash is not pumpkin. Things might be different in Oz. In Australia everything, including pumpkins, tries to kill you. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/51 "2017-04-10T21:48:16Z")
Another chime in from someone who was served Boston Baked Beans (with franks) and Boston Brown Bread (in a can) as a child. ISTM that they were both molasses delivery vehicles. Later in life I met someone from Boston, and I asked them if the grew up eating Boston Baked Beans and Boston Brown Bread. They replied that they never heard of Boston Baked Beans and Boston Brown Bread, but that they did eat baked beans and brown bread. So, there you go. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/52 "2017-04-10T22:01:07Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Later in life I met someone from Boston, and I asked them if the grew up eating Boston Baked Beans and Boston Brown Bread. They replied that they never heard of Boston Baked Beans and Boston Brown Bread, but that they did eat baked beans and brown bread. So, there you go. What about the franks, Mister Smart Guy? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/53 "2017-04-10T22:55:34Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > I grew up in western Massachusetts. I’ve never heard of “bread in a can” until now. That’s where I live and have grown up and the yankee dad of mine always had brown bread from a can and baked beans… I could only eat it if it had about an inch of butter on it. Now I eat it with only 1/2 an inch of butter. 2 cans in my cabinet now. 1 with raisins (yuck) 1 without. Dad also drank Postum or something like that … it was like instant coffee maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/54 "2017-04-10T23:46:25Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > My favorite item is #11: Canned Russian herring pieces. > > Including their mouths. > > That have teeth. In Soviet Russia, canned herrings eat _you_! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/55 "2017-04-11T00:12:11Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > Dad also drank Postum or something like that … it was like instant coffee maybe? Chicory, I think. With some kind of … toasted grain? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/56 "2017-04-11T00:30:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Chicory, I think. With some kind of … toasted grain? 😕 [Postum.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum) > [@](#): > > ostum (US: /ˈpoʊstəm/) is a powdered roasted-grain beverage once popular as a coffee substitute. The caffeine-free beverage was created by Post Cereal Company founder C. W. Post in 1895 and marketed as a healthful alternative to coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/57 "2017-04-11T09:47:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > All pumpkins are squash. Not all squash are pumpkins. In American-speech, butternut squash is not pumpkin. Things might be different in Oz. Except, as it happens, canned pumpkin puree [may well](http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-actually-in-your-canned-pumpkin-puree-ingredient-intelligence-69123) actually be made from butternut squash, or other squash. I found that out last year when I was trying to copy a US recipe in the UK, couldn’t find any canned pumpkin, and was trying to figure out if I could sub for what was available locally. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/58 "2017-04-12T02:55:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > In Australia everything, including pumpkins, tries to kill you. Username/post combo FTW 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/59 "2017-04-17T15:31:42Z")
carnplant: Not so fast with the jokes, mister. Queensland Blue pumpkins are a staple as a vegetable here, but they are so hard to cut that it is not difficult to break a knife in one and cut yourself. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/60 "2017-04-17T15:43:33Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > carnplant: Not so fast with the jokes, mister. Queensland Blue pumpkins are a staple as a vegetable here, but they are so hard to cut that it is not difficult to break a knife in one and cut yourself. That’s why they invented band saws. And C-4. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850.md?page=4)