Eating food outta that tin...

[strung out]

thats turned me on almost as much as madusa eating out of tins in her knickers

 

[DotCommunist]

Only rice pudding for me. Everything else can go in a pan. Not that I'll transfer said foodstuffs from pan to plate, oh no. Washing up is such a fuckin chore.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Because you can then use the hot water for something else.

I was thinking along the lines of Army rations (pre boil in the bag). You heated the tins in a mess tin of boiling water then used the water to make a cup of tea / coffee with or to have a wash in.

For some odd reason that puts me in mind of this book:

How many miles does it take to braise a fish fillet? Should you use your exhaust manifold or your valve cover for a pork tenderloin? Were Jaguars really designed with veal scallopini in mind?

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[girasol]

The smell of tin interferes with the food smell and it makes it taste wrong.

so, only in desperate situations such as comedown or hangover, but even then, I'd rather eat something else.

 

[subversplat]

Why go to all of that trouble? If you're going to get a pan out then you might as well tip the food in there to heat it.

For the record I have eaten from tins but normally if I'm camping or whatever, where the tin serves as a pan anyway.

If you leave the label on the tin you get a nice smoked flavour

 

[gentlegreen]

For some odd reason that puts me in mind of this book:

Ah, "Manifold Destiny" - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall mentioned that when he baked a Thames carp on his Landrover Engine in his TV prog.

 

[gentlegreen]

Eating out of tins is perfectly logical. The usual problem is having enough room to add extra ingredients so it pays to have a previous can available.

Faves of mine have been - "Fruit Compote", topped up with porridge oats and soy milk.

Another non-Toby fact - and one that Quentin Crisp in particular got wrong is that any food can follow any food - even if the first food was eaten some time before.

(It pays to remember that the Romans used fish sauce in sweet dishes)

 

[Yossarian]

Cold borscht soup of the tin ranks among my favourite meals - if I ever get sent to Death Row I might even ask for that as my final meal, although that'd mostly be in the hopes of using the sharp edges of the tin lid as a weapon in a final bid for freedom.

 

[Maggot]

Who? And I'm older than you so I why haven't I heard of him

Older, but less cultured:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Moriarty

 

[Onket]

Because you can then use the hot water for something else.

I was thinking along the lines of Army rations (pre boil in the bag). You heated the tins in a mess tin of boiling water then used the water to make a cup of tea / coffee with or to have a wash in.

Have a wash maybe, but there's definately something not right about using the water for tea. YUK.

 

[Part 2]

I always purposely leave a spoonful of baked beans at the bottom of the tin so that I can eat them out of the tin.

I do that with most food from tins. Soup, mushy peas, custard, mackerel, probably not spaghetti though.

Something about wanting to find out what it tastes like cold. Like bluey says, it's all preparation for sitting in the dark in a bunker.

 

[selamlar]

Have eaten all manner of things straight from the tin, mainly out of necessity. 'All Day Breakfast' bean type jobbies are a favorite, as it Heinz Ravioli. Good festival survival food

Who? And I'm older than you so I why haven't I heard of him

Protagonist from On the Road - Kerouac