Canned Food

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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For centuries, food preservation was a significant challenge for humanity. Even if you were successful in hunting or gathering food, if you could not preserve it, it would be difficult to keep enough for survival. One of the most important advancements in human history was the development of canning, allowing for food to be preserved for significantly longer periods of time. Sometimes, very long periods of time. Find out about the history of canning and its impact on humanity on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Jerry Compare quotes and coverages side-by-side from up to 50 top insurers at jerry.ai/daily American Scandal Follow American Scandal on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For thousands of years, food preservation was a significant challenge for humanity.
0:05.0	Even if you were successful in hunting or gathering food, if you couldn't preserve it, it would be difficult to keep enough for survival.
0:11.0	One of the most important advancements in the history of food preservation was the development of canning,
0:17.0	which allowed for food to be preserved for significantly longer periods of time.
0:21.9	Sometimes, very long periods of time.
0:25.9	Learn more about the history of canning and its impact on the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. You know, when I started this podcast, it felt like I had to become 10 people overnight.
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2:23.8	Food preservation has been a massive problem for centuries. Food starts to spoil the second it's collected, so to combat this, people had to develop methods to preserve food.
2:29.0	Forms of preservation like drying, fermenting, pickling, and salt curing were discovered,
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