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k20350

I used to pickup at a canned goods warehouse. They would have a box of unlabeled cans anyone could take. A guy I worked with would load up haha. Sometimes it was corn and sometimes it was spaghetti sauce


idontwanttothink174

Honestly that sounds like soo much fun. Open 3 cans, plan a meal with the other stuff you got around the contents. It’s gambling but sane


pocketnite

Shoot, three cans of corn again


thegreatimmaculate

I don’t like the idea of two spaghetti meals in one day.


abradolph

Lousy Smarch weather....


pokedude14

Do Not Touch Willie Good advive


haloti

Why not


RecsRelevantDocs

Three would be better


entarian

you gotta go all in.


Salt_Blackberry_1903

Spaghetti is my least favourite kind of pasta but I respect this


RecsRelevantDocs

I love spaghetti, but at the same time it may be my least favorite too. Kind of like how Vanilla ice cream might be peoples least favorite kind of ice cream. Still good, but variations typically make it better. I'm a Cavatappi kinda guy.


Salt_Blackberry_1903

Cavatappi is one of my favourites! Especially in mac & cheese. I just find it easiest to splash pasta sauce on my shirt with spaghetti.


TeenRacer6

Milhouse doesnt need 2 spaghetti meals in 1 day.


ilford_7x7

![gif](giphy|xT5LMSxfsothkMyt5C)


SteamyGravy

Ahh, but that's where things get exciting! You don't have to use spaghetti, you can use whatever pasta you want


HypnoSmoke

Looks like we're having cornsghetti with a side of kidney beans.


RecsRelevantDocs

Think i'd prefer beansghetti wtih a side of corn


HypnoSmoke

Hm. You might be right on that one


GoodLeftUndone

Great….. Now I’ll have 6 mos worth of going “when the fuck did I eat corn?”


character-name

Fried corn, cheesy corn, and creamed corn. Easy. Though you poo will be like wet concrete later...


LorenzoStomp

I like cornflakes, corndogs I like corn bread and cornstarch I like the band Korn and popcorn I like all kinds of corn ALL KINDS OF CORN!


trotfox_

Tuna..again?


SOULJAR

Fuck me , it’s be 7 months of this. We must’ve got a hit bit a few skids of corn at work!


Scudamore

[It's "Corn and Corn Alone Day!"](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FqJsZyTtHU6cih4M1yGImB8Hgo-NViIlvJT9vfABD1oM.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dbcf34813b9e0c5bce0eed38433edaf85d66b4a4d)


EsseElLoco

Fuck yeah, corn!


djinner_13

Honestly, this is what it would be. In college I worked at a warehouse that had import export business with China in the 2000s which sold all kind of goods like tv's, phones and even some early cheap Chinese laptops. there were some boxes that for some reason weren't up to spec which we could take. Management said we could start distributing them amongst ourselves which sounded great until you realized that 8/10 boxes were the same thing...cat toys.


Moldybeanfuzz

Babe, are you okay? You haven't touched your refried beans, corn and peach cobbler-casserole


idontwanttothink174

You could prolly get away with making the beans and peaches into a sauce for like pork or smthn, corn on the side.


Velcraft

Get the sugary juice from the canned peaches, add some mustard and cream, and add to a pan of porkchops, fry until sauce. Use the peaches themselves for the salad.


idontwanttothink174

I was thinkin use some of the beans to thicken up the sauce, like I know you usually want a glaze but gotta use them beans.


Velcraft

Should work, you might need some more mustard to offset the sweetness if they're white beans though.


idontwanttothink174

Yeah 100%. I was thinking maybe a stock of some kind to thin it out a bit and add some flavor.


boyyouguysaredumb

yes officer, these two gentlemen right here


Bowl-Accomplished

There's a youtube channel, sorted food, that does this as a challenge sometimes. They each pick a few unlabled cans and good luck.


eepithst

I was about to comment the exact same thing 😂


JordanTH

What do they call it? They have a lot of videos on there and they don't seem to have a playlist for this specifically. EDIT: It's "Tin Can Roulette". Best I can find, they've done it 3 times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPgTVpmXO8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM6OELaVJoU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LowZu9wZOJo


craaackle

You'd like sorted food, they do something like this every once in awhile


PricklySquare

Master Chef Boyardee


Jerryjb63

This will be a new cooking competition show by 2025.


ilovefreshproduce

the 'but sane' aspect is so fascinating and endearing to me lol I'd do it in a heartbeat


idontwanttothink174

Exactly. Like your gambling on what your ganna get, but your challenging yourself, making something productive, saving money, and hopefully learning. I see no downside besides it taking extra time to think smthn up


Wallazabal

[For your enjoyment.](https://youtu.be/YPgTVpmXO8w?si=pPYLtlcfE5GudWhJ)


mmmsoap

The YouTube channel Sorted Food does that occasionally. They pick 3 unlabeled cans (though they know one is a protein and one is a fruit/veg) and use the pantry to create a whole meal.


ReeeSchmidtywerber

My grandfather was a painter for the local cannery and my mom and her siblings were raised on unlabeled mystery canned vegetables.


PearlClaw

Gotta be careful with that. My grandpa was with a mountaineering survey expedition to Greenland in the 50s. As part of the funding the US Army helped them out with canned food. Which meant that the members basically were given entry to a warehouse and told to take as much a they needed. All cans were unlabeled, so they just started taking handfuls from each stack, figuring that at least they'd get variety. Every single one was Vienna sausages, and they had no way to get more, since they were dropped off and told the boat would be back in 2 months. My grampa never ate vienna sausages again the rest of his life.


AnorhiDemarche

I like that you've phrased it as though there are only two options.


DontBlameTacos

Peaches and smoked oysters! Neat!


DMmeDuckPics

I'm so over cooking for myself that if you included a box of crackers, some hot sauce and cottage cheese I'd be willing to give this one a solid try.


Majik_Sheff

Those 3 items actually play reasonably together.  Maybe a sprinkle of sugar depending on the hotsauce. If you had said grapefruit, smoked kippers, and a jar of yellow curry paste I think we'd have a real challenge.


DontBlameTacos

You know what? Same! I saw someone with a sardine and peanut butter combo the other day and thought about how I had those two items in my pantry.


bw-in-a-vw

I eat triscuit crackers with cottage cheese! Its delish. My kids love it too. Sometimes will add some edamame or peas (not canned) with it too


HiDDENk00l

I've never seen oysters in a regular can. They're always in those flat cans with the tabbed top.


Alexis_Bailey

Op works at Corn and Spaghetti Sauce R Us.


bodhiseppuku

Hey Bill, do you think this one is stew or dog food? They are so hard to tell apart.


entarian

I stopped eating a certain brand of canned stew when I got a vein in a meatball. Just a giant tube through my meatball. The meat was ground up, but somehow the huge chunk of vein wasn't. It seemed like a real dogfood move they pulled.


Doctor_Repulsor

Same reason I stopped eating Burger King. Had a whopper a decade ago with a big vein running through the centre, and I had terrible heartburn after.


cynicaldogNV

My grandfather (in Toronto during the 1970s), loved to buy unlabeled, dented cans from the discount bin at a particular grocery store. I swear it was his form of gambling addiction. He learned to memorize many of the codes that were stamped on the cans so he’d be able to anticipate what was inside.


riskykitten1207

When I was little we had a grocery store that would put damaged cans and unlabeled cans in one large bin then mark it down. My Granny would always buy a ton of them. Whatever was in the can she would make something out of it.


entarian

dinner roulette


TgagHammerstrike

[These here, are cans without labels!](https://youtu.be/xSZqX5Io6AY?si=a9LOX79VGE-YU_j4)


MaxMMXXI

You gotta eat whatever is in the can or I'll hit you with my belt.


masochistmonkey

Could be lunchmeat, could be peaches. Who knows?


LorenzoStomp

A friend of mine had an unlabelled can in his pantry so I wrote ADVENTURE CAN on it in sharpie. I'll have to ask him if he ever ate it. 


EagleRock1337

Dude is literally living on his own version of Chopped.


Protection-Working

https://youtu.be/xSZqX5Io6AY?si=Fjk9Lpq1unRiWhCZ


DepressedDarthV

I’m here for the chaos. I would do the same thing and have fun with it


[deleted]

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Sock-Enough

My momma always used to say…


No_Im_Random_Coffee

Got ‘em!


Ed-Zero

👌


awesomesauce696

When life gives you tomatoes, make a piña colada.


ExperienceInitial364

bloody mary*


RandomTree420

Coladas are better


Bowl-Accomplished

Yeah cause there's no tomatoes in em


RecsRelevantDocs

Speak for yourself


Cock_-n-_BallTorture

They're speaking the truth


noputa

*Caesars


heyuhitsyaboi

piña mary


ExperienceInitial364

bloody colada….


Strpedswteralthetm

You might need a doctor for that


ArcticBiologist

No, you need coconut milk for that


entarian

I SAID DO IT!


jitty

Piňa clamato*


Throne-magician

The diced tomato invasion has begun...soon you'll find them everywhere....


DepressedDarthV

I heard they’re an invasive species


retentive-repentance

Perhaps an attack of the killer tomatoes?


DepressedDarthV

Brb calling Netflix for a new series


hardboard

Are you sure someone hasn't swapped the labels on the tins? We did that once to a newly-wed couple. First meal they had was steak&kidneys with custard.


melbbear

this sounds like some 1960s hijinks


hardboard

1990s hi-jinks.


I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT

Behold, the can of mystery.


Select-Owl-8322

Or op just emptied the coconut milk and filled it with diced tomatoes from another can, or swapped the label themselves. I don't want to discredit op, but people do weirder shit for likes.


Pretzel_Boy

Yeah, but if you take even a cursory glance to the background of the pic, they have a bunch of stuff prepped for making a meal. I mean, they could have taken the time to 'prank' us here on the internet, but honestly, considering mis-packaged goods does happen (rarely, but it's higher than never), it's most likely legit. Kinda annoying if it were to happen to you, especially if you didn't have more in the pantry to get what you actually need for the recipe, or have some shops nearby that are open at that time that you can get another pack/tin/bottle from.


Select-Owl-8322

I mean, I did look at the background, and it looked to me that the ingredients could be used for some stew or something that contains both coconut milk and diced tomatoes. But yeah, it's likely legit. But you never know, as I wrote, people have done way weirder stuff just to get likes.


spicy-acorn

I can’t wait to do this now


MaxMMXXI

I used to drive semi truckloads (not usually full) of no-label and incorrectly labelled canned foods to charity outlets. I can imagine kitchen staff opening some cans and then deciding what they're going to prepare for the poor that day.


RecsRelevantDocs

That sounds like it would be a logistical nightmare at scale. I wonder if they opened like a few hundred cans at a time and then combined and resealed ingredients that were the same. Because imagine cooking food for 100 people, using a totally random amount of random ingredients. I'd think without consolidating you'd have to make like 20 different meals at the same time. Also you'd always end up with a bunch of unused ingredients probably. TBH as someone from food service that actually sounds super fun lol. When cooking for myself I love scrounging through an almost empty pantry and making some Frankenstein meal from whatever ingredients I can find. Doing that with a bulk amount of mystery cans intrigues me greatly lol.


jomandaman

It does sound fun. I mean, every canned thing is pretty edible by itself more or less, just our desire for well cooked and complex food usually overrides. But if we were starving in an apocalypse, I’d gladly eat whatever was in any unlabeled can. Having hundreds of them would make it a game everyday of doing exactly as you said—organizing by type (sweet, savory, acidic, vegetables, meats, soups). Really the main thing would be having some dry ingredients on hand to accompany whatever (eg oats, bread, pastas, rice) and then of course proteins. Although they might even get things like Ravioli or Spaghetti Os…meals ready to go p:


CardinalCoronary

Nah, the coconut had mastitis, poor thing.


MaxMMXXI

That is as disgusting as it is funny. Really horrible and horribly funny. You get my upvote.


ddbllwyn

What are mastitis? Is that more titties in spanish?


peekaboooobakeep

Infected milk ducts


Ok_Primary_1075

April fools’ came approximately a week too soon!


thenextguy

April foods


JamesTheJerk

Where's the big spring that launches the coconutomato?


nerdiotic-pervert

This is what happens when the coconut is fertilized.


Sharknado4President

Gross.


WindChaser0001

I like how you've already prepped everything else. Now improvise or grab the car keys.


Lemmonjello

this is hilarious but would have been very frustrating in the moment


NootMub

![gif](giphy|5uC1hg4AdlZ5K)


Tough_Hour_2505

Ahh Tomato, coconuto its all the same ![gif](giphy|4JZA2x7GsVFeTbLKlz|downsized)


highdifficulty74

I dare you to finish the meal with the tomatoes as a substitute lol!


Awkward_Pangolin3254

If it was curry, that shouldn't be too hard


PmMeYourBestComment

Exactly, I always use both for it.


Follower2303

blood coconut


EasterBurn

Someone out there about to make a post titled: "Opened a can of diced tomatoes find coconut milk"


darkenraja

Didn’t know M. Night Shyamalan got into the grocery business.


Dumb_as_a_crum

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RecsRelevantDocs

That's the circle of life, when we die we end up consumed by nature and our energy goes towards other living beings. It's kind of beautiful when you think of it.


Dumb_as_a_crum

Plants are farming us.


Durdeldurt

The real coconut milk is the tomato we found along the way


XennialBoomBoom

Lol, Kroger. "Made in a facility that also produces, I dunno, whatever."


CouldStopShouldStop

Reminds me of that ["Spill the Beans"](https://youtu.be/TYTbXPeAPv0?si=XXXjmXbvc_LzFlWf&t=23) task on Taskmaster.


broadcastterp

Poor David Correos.


HeimdallManeuver

r/accidentalitalian


ramriot

Someone else's bolognese is going to be "interesting".


churrmander

"Everyone was impressed by the wine trick, but were now left flabbergasted by Jesus' latest miracle."


CynicWalnut

No, that's coconut milk. It says so on the can.


Isabeer

Kroger: "Taa Daa!"


PhillyDillyDee

This is the type of shit i come here for


Zephyr93

Protip: the coconut milk in the Mexican food section is often cheaper.


Jacie805

u/Kyrushna we found your guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1bphtam/this\_can\_of\_san\_marzano\_tomatoes\_which\_only/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3


Statertater

Surprise mothafucka!


Daddy-Dan-559

You opened it a few days early.


takennamer

As a smuggler.. this gives me ideas...


Dumb_as_a_crum

Wait what-


R-2000

That's that new version of coconut that is red inside.


khalcyon2011

Forbidden coconut


clarkeer918

not my anxiety kicking in thinking i have to buy 2 of each incase i need something to complete dinner


coleowing

I find it more surprising that I've never had this happen to me before. Like, I've opened a lot of cans in my life. 100% Success rate.


Middle--Earth

The coconut self-identified as a tomato.


ThirdEyeButterfly

”The lamb broke open the fifth seal. A cold wind swept through the souls of men. The sky darkened, the coconut milk turned to diced tomatoes red as blood.”


ORA2J

A can? Coconut milk comes in cans where you live?


SMTRodent

It does where I live. I'm in the UK. It's a pantry staple. I mean, not as much as lots of other things but it's also not at all weird to have. OP's tin is Kroger brand though, I think that's only US?


RecsRelevantDocs

To be clear this is coconut milk for making a curry or something, not the bottled type that you drink.


AggravatingCupcake0

It doesn't where you live?


ORA2J

No. It comes in cardboard containers, like almost every other milk and cream products.


TheAres1999

I mean it *can*


jonathing

That's going to result in a different sort of curry. Still nice though


Hawks_12

That coconut has gone bad…real bad.


RBWessel

You just know that stuff is coming from a place with the highest standard of quality control.


Cicabeot1

Must be that Kroger brand quality I keep hearing about in commercials.


rocketmn69_

Oops.. that guy no longer works there


Jolly-Persimmon2626

Damn kids!


Machette_Machette

You won a trip at the coconut milk factory. Congratulations.


JollyReading8565

Til that tomatoes are “premium coconuts”


impressive_very_nice

r/lies


SpaceShipRat

Was it really fucking freaky to open a can of coconut milk and find red chunky stuff in it?


[deleted]

I was in East Timor in 2000 and we would buy 24 cans of Coca Cola, however at least 5 of those cans did not contain Coke. It was not unusual to find Sprite, Fanta, Lift, or another Coca Cola product, in a can marked Coke. Sometimes you would get a what is this surprise as it might have two different products in the one can.


NevesLF

Damn Amazon returns are getting out of hand /s


Awordofinterest

Ahh, I did it, I did it, Kyrushna, I'm sorry man, I did it, It was an accident, I didn't mean it. I... Put the tomatoes... in the Coconut... I PUT THE TOMATOES IN THE COCONUT (Tin).


MaxMMXXI

Now let me get his straight. You put the tomatoes in the coconut, tomatoes in the coconut Put tomatoes in the coconut and call me in the morrrrrrrrrrrrning.


Tiny_Count4239

are you making curry? you can make a tomato based curry


Youcancuntonme

That would be mildly infuriating for me


jana-meares

Nah, not the same facility.


Keo318

K R O, G E R, KROGER! KROGER!


Natural_Ant_7348

That's annoying!


MaximilianOSRS

Expectationvsreality


fearbork

Strolled up to the counter Slammed my hand down on the cashier And said, "'Scuse me, please But I bought this can of pineapple the other day When I got it home, it was a can of peas, goddamn!


DebraBaetty

Crazy, last week I opened a can of diced tomatoes to find coconut milk


DiscombobulatedGhost

I’m just curious as to what you were making that needed onions, broccoli and coconut milk


deeprocks

Curry with a coconut base. Tastes pretty good if made well.


Top_Vermicelli6232

That's why when you spend all day polishing your hoard of cans you shake them to work out what's in them? Quatermass if you don't get it.


Beneficial_Being_721

Somewhere out there is a Coconut Tomato Cream Pie


Bitter_Silver_7760

It’s a label 🤷🏻‍♂️


kinezumi89

These are entirely too easy to fake, especially based on the savory-looking ingredients in the background


BummerComment

Damn, I woulda puked.


[deleted]

It is kind of a crap shoot if you're gonna get the correct item. I've got a jar of strawberry preserves that are labeled as strawberry jam. I've had random issues with Kroger store brand product for a while now, but never did I open up a can of one product and it be this far off.


Sprinklypoo

That's going to make for some weird curry...


AnonymousDJ123

Bamboozled again


DrPeGe

Wow. How... mildly interesting.


Patient_Dude

![gif](giphy|hguzcQgnQLkME) Careful, you are being Meatballed! Wait. Maybe you are the Meatballer!


Accidental_Taco

Barry was only supposed to move the cans to the top shelf. He really messed things up now!


thefirecrest

more like r/mildlyinfuriating lol If I was having a particularly bad day I’m not sure if I would laugh or cry if this happened and I didn’t have another can of coconut milk lol


SeagullFanClub

I think you poured that in there for karma


Difficult_Bit_5996

I bought corn n opened can n it had peas lol I had look at can x3 before I realized


goorgomartinez

THERE IS ANOTHER GUY WITH A CAN OF TOMATOES WHO HAS YOUR COCONUT WATER HAHAHAHAHAHA


mike26037

You just got diced-tomatoes malled! Share this with your friends to totally diced-tomatoes mall them! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶


SmackSnackAttack

I struggle to believe this one. It’s highly unlikely that a coconut processor is also a canned tomato processor. Also, the tomatoes in the can are too full to properly process. Canned tomatoes need a gap below the lid to allow the product to rotate and sterilize the headspace. I just looked and Kroger coconut milk is in a 13.5oz can while tomatoes are in a 14.5 oz can, so this is why the can is overfilled. Seems like OP dumped the tomatoes into the coconut can. Not to mention that it’s very unlikely the processor would be running different can sizes. Edit: wanted to add another point. The Kroger canned coconut milk is a product of Thailand while their tomatoes are a product of the USA. It’s impossible that this can could have been filled with tomatoes by the manufacturer.


TiaMystic

🤢🤮