Can Your Tomatoes. . . | DearDiary.Net

Tomatoes bubble in a large pot on the stove.

They will be done in another 20 minutes and I will can them.

Funny we say "can" when we actually use glass jars. I will be "glassing" my tomatoes soon. Or I will be "jarring" my tomatoes? Which given the complexity of the English language could mean, I am peering at my tomatoes with my telescope, or disturbing my tomatoes with loud rock music, respectively.

And if one was going to be even more of a literalist, "to can" something might also mean to throw it away... (in the garbage can).

So in the interest of clarity: I will "preserve" my tomatoes soon.

Or as the country folk used to say: "I hope to put up a few quarts of tomatoes today."

Which is kind of silly, because usually after they had been "put up" they were "put down" in the cellar.

It's a wonder we can communicate at all in English.

Though I have heard that the Icelandic tongue is considered one of the most complicated of languages. After a short internet search, it seems that honor is shared with Hungarian, Lithuanian and Basque. I wonder what phrase all these people use for canning tomatoes?

In any case, (or language), I have work to do, and it involves red stuff in a pot that needs to be put in glass jars and heated up enough to cause a vacuum to form along the rubber seal on the lip of the jar, thereby enabling it to be stored at room temperature for a few years without spoiling, so's we can add it to vegetable soup in the dead of winter and warm up our innards.

Skol!
Ya Vol!
Cain!
Yep!
Ja!
Oui!

WHATEVER!

Comments (9)

Pragmatist (Legacy)

OK, now let's see if I have the right of it. You grew some tomatoes in your backyard, and you harvested them. Then you cooked them in such a way as to prepare them for long-term preservation.

So, perhaps in the winter when such stock is at low availability, you will have your long-term preserved tomatoes available for soup, sauce, or whatever.

Have I stated it correctly?

Shalom

InStitches (Legacy)

"It's a wonder we can communicate at all in English."

Welcome to the age of the "Spin Cycle". Language goes in meaning one thing and comes out all dizzy...or is that ditzy? LOL

kordelle (Legacy)

bonjour petit gateau
the part that really amazes me about all this is that the tomatoes will be disturbed by the rock music
linguistic impossibilities well that doesnt amaze me at all

Dustbunny3 (Legacy)

CAN !!! Add another Twistered Wiskers to CAN.
The word has also been user for years as a search for a tolite. AGH.

waterspriteflying (Legacy)

And leave us not forget ''putting food by''!

And is there anything better in the world than home-canned tomatoes, pears, apricots or peaches? I can't even eat that syrup-covered plastic they pass off as canned stone fruit you get in the stores. Puke.

Hugs and success!
Ani

bookworm (Legacy)

Good on you for doing it, no matter what it's called. Just to let you know, you're one of those with the funny notifies coming to my inbox. I just go from the front page on DD, since you're always there in the top ten. But hope they can fix the problem soon. ;-)

allimom (Legacy)

I can't wait until it is time for me to do tomatoes! I need to pull up my beets today and pickle them, yummy! Next week after we get back from Vegas, I'm thinking maybe pickles. I'll have to see what mood I'm in then.
Alli

fairywishes (Legacy)

whatever language I am jealous that you have enough toms to can
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sezrah (Legacy)

very cool :)

here's hoping we get to see the finished product(s)?

sez