I’m surprised no one mentioned that we’d been canning food for the winter long before there were suitable metal cans. We can foods in glass jars at home. Canned peaches, you know? So it seems reasonable that even if the commercial preserved peaches are in metal, they’re still canned peaches, therefore tin “can”.
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Silk:
August 6th, 2015 at 11:29 pm
I’m surprised no one mentioned that we’d been canning food for the winter long before there were suitable metal cans. We can foods in glass jars at home. Canned peaches, you know? So it seems reasonable that even if the commercial preserved peaches are in metal, they’re still canned peaches, therefore tin “can”.