the.com/can
A pressurized time capsule that outlives whatever survivalist hoarded it in their bunker.
means A sealed metal container used to preserve and store food, drinks, or other goods, or the verb for sealing something inside one.
from From Old English 'canne,' meaning a cup or container, with cousins across the Germanic languages — Dutch 'kan,' German 'Kanne.' For most of its life it meant a vessel for liquids; the modern airtight metal tin only arrives in the early 19th century, when preserving food in sealed containers became a practical art, and 'can' grew a verb to match. The unrelated 'can' meaning 'to be able' comes from an entirely different Old English root, 'cunnan' — a coincidence of spelling, not kin.
- older than opener
- Cans predate the can opener by 48 years
- early instructions
- First cans said cut open with chisel and hammer
- war ration
- Napoleon's prize funded canning for feeding armies
- recycling champ
- Aluminum cans can be back on shelves in 60 days
- shelf life
- Properly sealed cans last decades, sometimes a century