Canned vegetables

Canned corn & beans are good for throwing into soups, and canned tomatoes have their uses too. But all others I don't much care for.

ooh yah canned tomatos, word

and beans obv but wait are beans vegetables?

CREAMED CORN.

Canned peas are not that good. They are all tiny like little cat testicles. Even the frozen ones are better than that.

Ima be ballin in your canned corn Surmounter.

Creamed corn on Ryvita. Tinned pineapple chunks on pizza yes.

It's not a question of cool, but I really don't like canned vegetables.

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except tomatoes obviously but they are like in their own category.

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I was listening to the Butthole Surfers earlier. Just the name alone is gross ("Creamed Corn").

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I don't like peas in general.

But it's no creamed ON corn, scientist, it's 'creamed corn.' You need to pay careful attention to your pea's and q's when it comes to grammar.

peas are my favvv

That's because they reminds you of your cat.

Anyway, I think Surmounter just likes canned vegetables ironically.

*sigh* The folling caned veg are ok = peas. That's about it. Sadly.

u guys are ridic. they do NOT remind me of my cat - and maybe i am FORCEd to like them ironically because i can't afford anything else right now!

i mean come on they are really fucking cute...

Ironic in that 'Isn't it Ironic' not ironic way?

It's like canned peas,
when your cat got fixed
It's like creamed corn,
after a full work-day of porn
And isn't it ironic
Don't you think?

hardeeharharhar =P

Canned peas are a mushfest, as are canned green beans. The only way I can get collard greens is in a can and they're pretty yum.

I once had chicken curry in a can from Tescos back in the days. That was exactly like dog food so everything else is a step up.

Man, one time outside the co-op across from my house, I found this 8-pack of designer canned soups. Turducken, quail,, all kinds of great stuff! I didn't have any food at the time (which was why I was looking outside the co-op: food was left in the parking lt & by the dumpster a lot), so I was K-EXCITED. But when I got home & saw them in the light I discovered they were designer dog foods.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's really sad dude

The Le Sueur peas are awesome slopped into chicken pot pie, along with canned cranberry jelly. OH GOD.

Turducken SOUP? Such a thing exists!?

MUSHY PEAS in a can are good. Also, tomatoes obv.

Apparently not, but turducken DOG FOOD does. Turducken, the treat dogs ask for by name.

I rarely eat canned veggies. Lately I have been using (and eating) a lot of frozen veggies.

tomatoes obv dont count, creamed corn on toast is indeed a heart warming winter treat yet I feel only two vegetables are worth serious consideration, namely beetroot and asparagus both of which are perfectly acceptable from a can

tomatoes are not a vegetable, guys

Well, she did say "Obv don't count" :-) That said, I keep forgetting they're fruit. :-(

Woah how did I forget beetroot.

Canned asparagus is ass though. Its only nice fresh.

Hwo do you prepare canned asparagus? DO you just put it in the microwave?

We always got served it cold! Like, with salad. No wonder I always hated the stuff.

I am always puzzled by the presence of tinned carrots, potatoes and mushrooms in shops. I have bought tinned spinach in the past, though.

Also, Ipcress File to thread.

Food and spies you say? Well why not try this.

For canned veg: Corn niblets eaten with a spoon straight from can with a hangover. Bliss.

I love mushrooms but canned ones are the devil's sputum.

Kv_lol: that article is great.

Man, I really want this cookbook now.

Glad you liked it. I enjoyed the pained tone re. coffee plunger :)

We appear to have killed the thread. *sob*

Maybe it's time to diversify into other improbable canned goods. So, what about those tinned All-Day Breakfasts and tinned steak'n'kidney pies, then? Eh? Eh?

I lived with a chap who had a taste for the tinned steak and kidney pie...nothing like coming across the tin in the morning, empty but garnished with a couple of cigarette butts.

I have always been curious, but never brave enough, to try them. I just think of where the phrase "Fanny Adams" came from and stays my reaching hand!

I'd never heard the origins of that phrase before. Very Sweeney Toddesque.

Back to tins, hey, ravioli is another one. I mean, what's that all about?

Or tinned croissants! Someone I know thought "tinned croissants" were a bunch of croissants packed IN BRINE into a tin. Nom nom nom.

hahaha more likely his brane.

What's so horrible about mushrooms in tins? Too soft? What do you use it for? I'd venture to say: solely in things like bolognese?

Theyre all slimy!

Nom nom nom indeed!

When I was but a bairn *awwww* (I thank you) my father as a special treat for my elder sister used to make them for her. Needless to say we were informed on the down low that if we let her believe this we would also get croissants. Machiavelli had nothin' on my family!

Mushrooms in tins I've not tried. I just think that veg in tins should be avoided if there is a fresh alternative to hand. Also I never drive to shop or similar and tins are heavy so I don't have to think about it really...

one of my friends has been known to eat canned All Day Breakfast

We'll all be laughing the other side of our faces when TEH APOCALYPSE happens and all the survivalists will be chomping away on their cleverly-stockpiled tinned mushies and All-Day Breakfasts while we starve to death.

i'm currently addicted to the canned chicken curry from Lidl, with a baked spud.

Fray Bentos! Been trying to think of the brand name since lunchtime. Peak Frean was another one I thought had been made up by sitcom writers until a trip to England brought me face to face with the hideous truth.

To canned vegetables, I say "No!"

Well, tinned (or rather, for me, frozen) veggies are grebt so I don't have to go to the veggie shop every single week or less. Yes, they are heavy but then I have all my heavy groceries delivered (for free!).

beetroot
potatoes
peas

^^^delicious

ooh potatoes, don't know that i've ever tried the canned

I have a soft spot for french tins of beans and peas, Chris thinks I'm mad. Sweetcorn obviously is fine, though having just recently got a freezer again I much preferred it frozen. I think that's it for tinned veg in our larder. Not counting things that aren't really veg - beans, tomatoes, lentils, etc.

I love your accent.

i love lentils

In this month's Esquire, Giada de Laurentiis says that fresh tomatos are a waste of time. I'll never trust her again.

wtf man, i just prepared some bolognese with fresh tomatos. she's nuts.

bologneseeeeee..... MMMMMMM

and yeah what does that mean, waste of time? they're only one of my favorite foods ever

Ewww, tinned potatoes are weird. Only tinned veg in our house = tomatoes.

Tinned mushrooms are the food of satan.

Tinned fruit on the other hand = num num num guilty vice alert!

I have met awesome, brilliant-cook Italian mothers who have sworn my canned tomatoes and would never use fresh unless they were making their own passatta, or having fresh ones in salads etc. Italian brands of canned plum tomatoes are way better than anything I ever have fresh.

(for sauces etc I mean)

right... ugh i really need to start making my own sauce. my boyfriend's mom is uber italian and her suace/meatballs kill me. meatballs and sauce could very well be like my favorite food. on noodles of course.

but fresh tomatos are so great for so MANY things = salsa, salads, just on their own, sandwhiches. i guess w/ respect to sauce tho, they could be considered a waste of time.

having canned white corn right now. yes it is that kind of week and WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ME?

i think i really need to get into tinned fruit.

Oh well you couldnt use canned tomatoes in sammiches/salads in any case.

ha no

eww can u imagine?

I know you can imagine. Actually Surmounter I believe this warrants a thread in which you eat things out of a can in weird combinations. Maybe even in weird circumstances. Creamed corn off Alanis Morissette's left breast. With visual evidence.

We use canned black beans all the time. With chicken chorizo they are the bomb. Add a little homemade Pico de Gallo salsa and you're talking five-star restaurant quality.

I have heard tell that creamed corn added into cornbread batter results in good results.

that sounds like a fantastic photo op, xp

DEFINITELY beth, that's one of my bf and i's favorite dinners. we add carmelized onions, over rice? mmmmmmmmmmmmm

i really don't know that i've ever had creamed corn. it scares me. i like the kernels

But the kernels would surely roll off a breast making for a very unsatisfying eating and photographic experience.

well alanis of all ppl could definitely find a way of keeping them on her breast. but right for alanis creamed really might be best

It would be ironic.

don't ya think?

i'm sorry it was like one of those itches. it just had 2 come out

I think it was warranted.

:::wave of relief::

Creamed corn has kernels! And cream! And shitloads of sugar, yay America.

hahaha... so roseanne

which is absolutely a good thing, obv

Unquestionably. I haven't eaten canned creamed corn in ages, but I have eaten corn chowder. I started this canned soup thread a while back:
Canned Soup Yumminess