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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:01 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2016 at 12:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your friend was most likely referring to pumpkin pie filling...which you're going to find at your supermarket as well. We don't eat pumpkins -at all- in the US, so you don't find them on the shelves unless it's halloween.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:06 am
(January 3, 2016 at 12:01 am)Rhythm Wrote: Your friend was most likely referring to pumpkin pie filling...which you're going to find at your supermarket as well. We don't eat pumpkins -at all- in the US, so you don't find them on the shelves unless it's halloween.
You may not eat pumpkin, but I likes me some Thai pumpkin curry - which incidentally is fresh, not canned.
Rhythm is correct, the canned shit is pie filling, same as the canned pie filling found everywhere else. We have fresh vegetables in the US, same as in Australia.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:12 am
A few things. Americans call it canned food.
In the US, canned food is cheaper than fresh veggies. That's a huge reason we have a obesity issue here. Perhaps if they made fresh foods more cost friendly for the low and middle income families, they might eat healthier. When you have a grocery budget of $400 a month, you have to make your dollars stretch. Most of the time, I get frozen veggies because for $5.00 I can purchase three pounds of frozen corn, vs spending the same money on two dozen ears of corn. The ears of corn won't get me three meals like the frozen corn will. Currently, one head of lettuce sits at nearly two dollars. That's too high in my book.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:31 am
I eliminated canned veggies from my diet 16 years ago. I will use canned tomato sauce for Italian food, but other than that the only canned foods in my house are in my emergency kit.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:32 am
Oh, and you can buy fresh pumpkins seasonally in America, during autumn.
They're equally gross.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:35 am
(January 2, 2016 at 10:44 pm)Aractus Wrote: Now I can imagine only one possible purpose for these foods:
Umm, no. The tin is for convenience. For the working parents of the world, do they have time to prepare a meal from fresh vegetables? Certainly not.
Of course, America has become such a lazy country that convenience can no longer be an excuse. Tin is just convenience turned lazy.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:37 am
Yeah, despite what is believed, canned food, including veggies do have an expiration date. Ketchup, however, seems to have a shelf life of forever.
Interesting fact about mayonnaise: it does not need to be refrigerated after opening.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 12:51 am
A bit of both, really. I can't imagine cutting corn off the cob just to put in chill. On the other hand I don't think they sell canned cucumbers. And you can't bake a canned potato.
Also pumpkins are actually a fruit. A berry to be exact.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 1:33 am
(January 3, 2016 at 12:51 am)Cecelia Wrote: A bit of both, really. I can't imagine cutting corn off the cob just to put in chill. On the other hand I don't think they sell canned cucumbers. And you can't bake a canned potato.
Also pumpkins are actually a fruit. A berry to be exact.
Horticulturaly speaking there is no such thing as a vegetable. It's a culinary term. And pumpkin are vegetables.
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RE: Fresh vegetables
January 3, 2016 at 1:34 am
(January 2, 2016 at 11:44 pm)Aractus Wrote: (January 2, 2016 at 10:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Hello, snob, I think your organic, poor-hating commune misses you.
Tinned food isn't cheaper. If you're on a tight budget you're better off buying the cheap veggies likes carrot that can be had for $1-2/kg year-round, and of course rice. Pumpkin can be readily had for around $2.50/kg for much of the year as well (as it is right now as it happens):
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If it did come in a tin it'd be very unlikely to be cheaper than (or even the same as) the fresh price.
Wow Australians are so out of touch!
Fresh produce is restricted by area, yet canned goods can come from anywhere in the world. Generally speaking for the continental US, it is not true that fresh is cheaper or often comparably priced. Pumpkins in fresh produce in stores are only sold if they are picture quality and that makes them expensive, but factory farms aren't picky and cut away all the good flesh of basically any pumpkin that isn't rotten and cans only the edible flesh and none of the skin and seeds. Here in South Carolina a pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin today in January would cost 3 - 4 times more than a canned version. It's not even close.
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