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Canned Food

Patented: History of Inventions

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Early Canning and Its Origins in America

During the Civil War, soldiers are moving away from often small and quite localized lives in rural communities to other parts. In that process they're being fed, not by their families, but by the army. So there's this kind of exposure that different regional tastes get introduced. And it very much speeds that sense of taking it in and trusting it.

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