Tinned carrots. Who eats these?

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Sorry, inspired by another thread, but really not a TAAT!

I know supermarkets sell tinned carrots (and potatoes etc) but who buys and eats them?

I always assumed (when a young child) that older people, who'd gone through the war would like the peace of mind of having a good stock of non-perishable food. Indeed, there were a great number of power cuts when I was small, so everyone had something in, so you could eat if you came home and the power was off.

But that was forty years ago, and there are dwindling numbers of people left from those generations, sadly.

So who (under the age of seventy, say) buys tinned veg, but particularly tinned carrots?

Do you actually prefer the taste to fresh ones?

But those are the reasons why tinned food works out cheaper than buying fresh, meadowmeow

I am not disputing that.

I was just clarifying that when I said fresh is cheaper it was based on fresh being cheaper. With none of the circumstances later given included. Obviously there are many variables.

Use tinned carrot, sliced mushrooms, sweetcorn and peas. Mainly added to stew or in a pie or spag bol. They have a long use by date and mega cheap in Aldi so saves me money over time and so quick to heat up.

Also do frozen veg and never buy fresh anymore, too much wasted in our house

No Hopping they're not my thing (I like tinned peas) but there are plenty of posts on this thread suggesting why people eat them yet you have come on to declare yourself "baffled" and claim it's "a mystery".

You're free to not eat tinned carrots but your comments were sneering and superior IMO.

Btw I've googled out of curiosity and Tesco everyday value tinned carrots contain carrots, water and ascorbic acid (vit c) so not a "soup of additives" as you claim.

TInned new potatoes are gorgeous to eat with salad, roast chicken and French bread.

Yum

Okay. Did read the above comments and even so could not fathom why any of them made tinned food equal or superior to fresh. So it was still a mystery, shoot me. Cost wise wondered if people were taking the weight of the edible contents into account rather than weight/volume of tin etc. Not sneering, purely baffled even having read stuff about people not agile enough to deal with food prep but who seem to have no prob with tin openers etc. Again, shoot me.

I love baby carrots in the jar! I eat them out of jar on the drive home from the supermarket. They are lovely!!

Wouldn’t touch a sliced carrot though or any type of ‘mixed vegetables’.

People are strange.

Potatoes in corn beef hash.

Tinned carrots aren't nice but my 1 year old son gobbles them up

The Royal Navy, especially the submariners. When they go to sea they create a false deck from tinned food. There is a limited amount of fridge/freezer space, and fresh food doesn't last all that long. If you are at sea and dived for in excess of 6 weeks, having to provide three meals a day for x amount of crew, then tinned food has its place.

Whilst they wouldn't be my first choice for carrot eating, why are tinned carrots any worse than tinned sweetcorn or tinned tomatoes? i get through stacks of the latter.

Hopping

Vegetables in a soup of additives??? That'll be the dihygrogen monoxide that's preserving my tinned potatoes then.

And fwiw you can get organic veg in tins as well

What additives? The only thing added to Tesco Value tinned carrots is an antioxidant (to stop the liquid rusting the tin, I guess) - not at all dangerous - and you do know fresh veg will have stuff put in to it or in the packaging to prevent it going off quickly? The canning process is the preservative, not the ingredients.

even having read stuff about people not agile enough to deal with food prep but who seem to have no prob with tin openers etc. Again, shoot me.

Against the day you or someone you know develops long-term hand problems that make using peelers/knives difficult:

Automatic can openers

"Did read the above comments and even so could not fathom why any of them made tinned food equal or superior to fresh."

It's up to you to prove that their inferior.

I like tinned carrots and peas in a shepherds pie or mince and tatties. I don’t buy them otherwise.

HoppingPavlova - which benefits of tinned produce are you struggling to fathom?

1. ambient storage with a very long shelf life
2. requires no planning, can be held as a standby addition to a meal
3. requires less fuel to prepare
4. no preparation required/less equipment needed
5. can be less wasteful when cooking for one

It's like questioning why anyone would eat tinned tuna when fresh is so much better. It possibly is in some ways, but the benefits of tinned food are so obvious there's no need to puzzle over it. You'd have to be so far out of touch with the average British household to not be able to get your head around the use of tinned food!

If you are at sea and dived for in excess of 6 weeks, having to provide three meals a day for x amount of crew, then tinned food has its place.
Exactly. If I was stuck on a ship for 6 weeks I would expect to be eating a shitload of canned food. Indeed anywhere I didn’t have access to fresh food I would expect I would be eating canned food. I thought that’s the point of canned food, when you don’t have ready access to fresh food.

I eat tinned sweet coelrn and actually ate quite a lot of tinned veg when my kitchen was getting put in and I only had a microwave. They were actually ok.

I buy them as a standby,as carrots are one of the few veg one of my kids will eat so if I ran out of fresh I'd be fucked.I also like to have a coupla tins of peas and sweetcorn in my cupboard just in case.There's nowt wrong with them.

Tinned potatoes rock in frittata.

Tinned sweet corn is so much nicer than frozen.

hopping Try Belgian and French supermarkets and wonder at the array of jarred veg. I have a friend who buys jarred peas and carrots and then stews them to mush with lettuce in chicken stock.

Again, I buy jars of Italian antipasti veg like peppers, sun dried tomatoes, mushrooms, artichokes etc in oil, but can't fathom why you want jarred peas. Different taste buds I suppose.

Cans have their place though, and I suppose if things get more expensive or you don't have space for or can't afford the running costs of, a freezer, then canned food is your friend. I buy massive cans of cassoulet and coq au vin here in Belgium - just stick the contents in a pot and reheat.

Also, if we have canned fruit, (and I love canned peaches and pears in their own juice), then why not canned veg?

When we go on holiday will buy tin veg for convenience

Scaryteacher, that's the great MN conundrum.

Tinned fruit OK, tinned veg not.
All MN's children love hummus and various other food children in the real world don't.

Any way Tinned, frozen and fresh veg/ fruit all have there place within the real world.

I'm repeating what others have said, but I know people with issues like arthritis who would struggle to peel/chop veg like carrots and potatoes so but a mix of canned and pre-chopped. They use electric can openers.

Also, people with mobility issues who can't get out in icy/slippery weather or if they're sick.

Some people only have access to a microwave or one of those plug-in hobs. For example, care leavers who get put into B&Bs/hostels.

People with learning difficulties who might not be able to follow a whole recipe, but can put something together if ingredients are prepped.

Ooh I'd forgotten how much I love tinned potatoes!!!! Yum, yum, yum!!!!
Wouldn't bat an eyelid at tinned sweet corn or tomatoes.
I might have to get some tinned carrots when the weather gets cold and I start making casseroles again

Tinned baby carrots are the only way I will eat carrots! I'm not overly keen on them to be honest,and I really do not like raw carrots (except in coleslaw). I have always found that when carrots are cooked from fresh,they are always too hard for my liking,and they have an 'earthy' taste which I don't like. I'm 54 btw,so not of the war generation!