It’s perfect for pasta sauce. Add a little water, shake the jar, add it to the pot with the sausages, olives and mushrooms, and cook it until it’s reduced and the flavor is concentrated
My Mom lived to 99. Dad to 97. I think their secret was no canned food, no frozen food and no processed food. All my siblings died in their sixties and seventies with exception to one sister who made it to her eighties. They did not follow our parents example.
Yep. It comes from memories of the Great Depression handed down to us by the Greatest Generation. Remember the Greatest Generation? Fought WWI and WWII. The people Trump calls losers?
The artist drew this incorrectly. The point the author was making is that you add a few drops of water into the can so you can shake out the remaining veggies into your pot. The small amount of added water doesn’t affect the soup very much. And Pluggers are thrifty folk who hate seeing even a little bit of food go to waste. But this is drawn as if it’s a joke about preparing cans for recycling, with gushing water. Marcia, if you’re out there, back me up on this! Isn’t that what you meant?
I have a quart container in my freezer, and rinse out all cans, using about a tablespoon of water, into that container. Wine bottles, too. When it gets full, it goes into the basement freezer. When I have 4-6 quarts, I buy some beef bones and make soup.
Yakety Sax about 1 month ago
I do that with my soup.
Farside99 about 1 month ago
It’s perfect for pasta sauce. Add a little water, shake the jar, add it to the pot with the sausages, olives and mushrooms, and cook it until it’s reduced and the flavor is concentrated
Zykoic about 1 month ago
My Mom lived to 99. Dad to 97. I think their secret was no canned food, no frozen food and no processed food. All my siblings died in their sixties and seventies with exception to one sister who made it to her eighties. They did not follow our parents example.
PraiseofFolly about 1 month ago
And that’s just to get the very last bit that the spatula missed.
kelloggs2066 about 1 month ago
Doesn’t everybody…?
juicebruce about 1 month ago
Good to the last drop ;-)
Gent about 1 month ago
Wastes notheeng. Especially foods.
tpcox928 about 1 month ago
Yep. It comes from memories of the Great Depression handed down to us by the Greatest Generation. Remember the Greatest Generation? Fought WWI and WWII. The people Trump calls losers?
ctolson about 1 month ago
Doesn’t work so well with the peanut butter or jelly jar.
DaBump Premium Member about 1 month ago
But first you use a spoon or spatula to clean it out — and get one last taste.
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 1 month ago
I imagine her buying Betty Crocker canned frosting.
anomalous4 about 1 month ago
And/or you have to rinse out the jar before you put it in the recycling bin.
g04922 about 1 month ago
Of course… Especially if you are recycling.
ms-ss about 1 month ago
The recycle people tell you to do that.
kaycstamper about 1 month ago
In our neck of the woods we rinse things out so as not to attract bears into our garbage on trash pickup day!
Sean Fox about 1 month ago
Man I was a plugger since i was like 6 then
wildlandwaters about 1 month ago
ditto!
the lost wizard about 1 month ago
Doesn’t work with beer. Burp! :)
pheets about 1 month ago
Mom was adamant about it.
rfdfolkart about 1 month ago
I always do that because it makes another serving!
mistercatworks about 1 month ago
Well, yeah, that’s how I clean jars.
r.feinberg about 1 month ago
The artist drew this incorrectly. The point the author was making is that you add a few drops of water into the can so you can shake out the remaining veggies into your pot. The small amount of added water doesn’t affect the soup very much. And Pluggers are thrifty folk who hate seeing even a little bit of food go to waste. But this is drawn as if it’s a joke about preparing cans for recycling, with gushing water. Marcia, if you’re out there, back me up on this! Isn’t that what you meant?
MVMartinek 25 days ago
I have a quart container in my freezer, and rinse out all cans, using about a tablespoon of water, into that container. Wine bottles, too. When it gets full, it goes into the basement freezer. When I have 4-6 quarts, I buy some beef bones and make soup.