Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 04, 2024

I do that with my soup.

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.

And that’s just to get the very last bit that the spatula missed.

Doesn’t everybody…?

Good to the last drop ;-)

Wastes notheeng. Especially foods.

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?

Doesn’t work so well with the peanut butter or jelly jar.

But first you use a spoon or spatula to clean it out — and get one last taste.

I imagine her buying Betty Crocker canned frosting.

And/or you have to rinse out the jar before you put it in the recycling bin.

Of course… Especially if you are recycling.

The recycle people tell you to do that.

In our neck of the woods we rinse things out so as not to attract bears into our garbage on trash pickup day!

Man I was a plugger since i was like 6 then

ditto!

Doesn’t work with beer. Burp! :)

Mom was adamant about it.

I always do that because it makes another serving!

Well, yeah, that’s how I clean jars.

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.