Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The evolution of a food preservation makes one wonder about the failures that came along with experimentation. How many people had to die before we figured out the perfect way to cure a ham? And so it was with canned foods, which were invented in France in the early 19th century, but weren’t common in the US until after the Civil War.
People didn’t quite trust the process, with good reason. However, it turns out that humans have evolved to deal with spoiled food, for the most part.Most canned food spoilage is fairly obvious—either the can itself becomes deformed or its contents are…
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