Anon's wife finds the collection

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Lazy_Seal_@reddit

Serious question do people actually collecting this? And wouldn't the can swell up after like 10 years?

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Fisherman_Gabe@reddit

Idiot. The fish are dead, they aren't alive and growing fatter inside the can...

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Aetherium_Heart@reddit

Homie, have you never heard of bacteria growth creating gas and swelling canned goods? Idiot.

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Botulism. It's a bacteria that likes to live in canned goods and will sometimes kill you. You can tell when I can sometimes has botulism in it when you go to open it and it doesn't "pop" open. If there isn't a slight vacuum in there it means that bacteria has been eating sugars and pumping out gas and poop. This makes the jar grow.

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edbods@reddit

that can mean only one thing, there is a marker nearby and there's fish necromorphs inside

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BurnerNerd@reddit

Unless they’re eating the other fish inside, hmm? BUUUUURRP

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Antique-Vermicelli-6@reddit

hey man those can become a nice source of robot oil in a thousand years or so

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Skillr409@reddit

The canned sardine only becomes better with time (like wine). That's why people keep them for years, sometimes decades, before eating them. The value goes up

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nebraskatractor@reddit

I have a storage unit full of sardine tins. The value appreciates more than inflation and monthly fees and the insurance (yes, you insure your sardines if you have any sense). I’ll be able to retire when I’m 50.

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magistratemagic@reddit

can confirm. 4 kids' college fund in sardine tins right now. inlaws thought I was insane but

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lapideous@reddit

Where the hell can you sell “expired” canned food?

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wpgpogoraids@reddit

I thought this was a shitpost, but you’re telling the truth lol

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Intensityintensifies@reddit

Only if there has been some contamination, or the fat has gone rancid, or the overall quality has completely deteriorated. Basically only if there are gases forming inside the can.

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_MlCE_@reddit

Would be cool if it does

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twofacetoo@reddit

Swear to god my father does this. Motherfucker just buys tins of fish and then never eats them.

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mischling2543@reddit

It's for the zombie apocalypse

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back_reggin@reddit

They eat brains, dude. Not tinned fish.

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GargantuanCake@reddit

Canned sardines are one of the most shelf stable foods ever made. They just kind of don't go bad.

I'd also be willing to bet that he has been hungry in the past. Not "I skipped lunch today" hungry but "I had to choose between food and rent and haven't eaten properly for at least a week" hungry. Going through that makes you develop a food stashing habit especially stuff that just kind of doesn't spoil.

I keep a rice stash. If you don't open it rice stays edible for years. Some types of rice, if you never cook it, stays edible essentially indefinitely. I haven't been that poor for a while but still habitually stash rice. It's a subconscious thing at this point; I keep a stash of rice and canned foods that stay edible for at least decade.

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s00pafly@reddit

That's called a pantry

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twofacetoo@reddit

Most canned sardines last for 3 years at best. Fish is highly temperamental like that and the idea that canned food in general lasts for ever is a complete myth.

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edbods@reddit

lots of stories of people who had depression-era grandparents that were now filthy fucking rich but still had a lot of old habits from when they used to live in a house with a dirt floor. pretty surreal

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Mindless_Shame_4334@reddit

It doesnt go bad. Great for emergency food

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Rymanjan@reddit

This but my mom and canned beans. Not even during the COVID years, from like as far back as I could remember, we'd have no food in the freezer, no food in the fridge, basically no food in the pantry but there'd be like 2 dozen cans of green beans, which she only used in 2 recipes that she rarely if ever made (and that, if it came down to eating those beans, couldn't be made because it involves ingredients that would be unavailable like fresh chicken and cream)

At one point I just donated our whole pantry and started us fresh and we were back up to 2 dozen cans of green beans before I moved out like a year later lol

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