# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/61 "2017-04-17T16:07:37Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > 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. _Modernist Cuisine_ made an excellent case that canned fruits and vegetables are actually fresher than “fresh” ones that have been trucked across the country. They are canned within hours, sometimes only minutes, of being picked and it basically stops the decomposition that otherwise happens to them. ---
**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 17, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/62 "2017-04-17T16:15:58Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > _Modernist Cuisine_ made an excellent case that canned fruits and vegetables are actually fresher than “fresh” ones that have been trucked across the country. They are canned within hours, sometimes only minutes, of being picked and it basically stops the decomposition that otherwise happens to them. Another factor is that fruit and vegetables that are going to be processed close to their fields don’t have to be bred for traits that allow long transportation and shelf lives. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/63 "2017-04-17T17:12:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Another factor is that fruit and vegetables that are going to be processed close to their fields don’t have to be bred for traits that allow long transportation and shelf lives. Yes, thank you. The intensely flavorful strawberries from a can used in CostCo’s “Very Berry Sundae” are so superior to the allegedly “fresh” strawberries available for purchase back in the produce department that the latter may as well be potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/64 "2017-04-17T17:17:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > That’s why they invented band saws. > And C-4. 😛 How big is the squash-or-pumpkin? I put mine in a plastic grocery bag, hold it over my head in the garage, and let it drop on the cement floor. Cracks it open some. ---
**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 17, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/65 "2017-04-17T17:17:41Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > cthey are so hard to cut that it is not difficult to break a knife in one and cut yourself. I rest my case. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850/66 "2017-04-17T17:25:25Z")
Oh, the foods of my Boston childhood. Not only brown bread in a can, but Friday night suppers of fish sticks, baked beans, and O&C potato sticks in a can. And we each got our own can. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bread-in-a-can-what-is-this-thing/783850.md?page=3)