How Canned Food Conquered the World—And How It Almost Didn’t

The BBC hasa howling diveinto the history of canning , trace its root from a engineering designed to avail lucubrate and sustain the British Empire , to a miracle commodity of modernistic capitalism . And it almost bomb before it ever got going .

Though he really stole the idea for canning from a Frenchman , Bryan Donkin is the man who developed the idea to help tip the Royal Navy . He was awarded a patent for the technology in 1813 . Canned food was laud by royalty and sailors likewise — indeed , nobody had ever seen anything quite like it before . It made it possible to send familiar British intellectual nourishment to leghorn overseas , thousands of land mile from home .

But the skill of canning did n’t get off to a perfect commencement . You see , canning preserves food , and keep it fresh and tasty only so long as what go in there in the first position was good . A malicious gossip in the 1850s revealed that a vast amount of the canned “ beef ” being institutionalise overseas was not fit for human consumption . Much of it was n’t even beef at all . The proprietor behind the operation implicated in the scandal at last make clean up his act — as did the whole manufacture — and so canning make it long enough to become the supermarket good par excellence . Make sureto look into out the whole BBC level . [ BBC ]

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