The History of Canned Food | A Story Hiding in Every Soup Can
Before the refrigerator. Before the supermarket. Before anyone even thought about how to open it — someone had to figure out how to seal food well enough that it would survive a war. This is the story of the can. It starts with a military crisis, gets solved by a candy maker, and somehow manages to go fifty years without a crucial invention that should have existed from day one. Some everyday objects have a surprisingly dark history. This one has several. Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... https://www.history.com/articles/what... https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/f... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermal_C... https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd... #history #HiddenHistory #EverydayHistory #HistoryFacts #WeirdHistory #historydocumentary 0:00 The Soldier and the Bayonet 1:37 Napoleon's Challenge 3:17 The Candy Maker 4:45 The Prize and the Mystery 6:06 From Glass to Tin 8:10 Fifty Years Without an Opener 11:14 The Civil War and the Factory 13:03 Botulism and the Sanitary Can 15:57 World War, Suburbs and the Pull Tab 19:38 The Can Today
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