You grocery shop in preparation for your big Thanksgiving dinner. You lug all those bags in from your car, fling them onto the counter and begin the tedious process of putting everything away. You unload everything and begin arranging the cans in perfect order in your pantry. All cans must be precisely stacked with all labels facing forward {okay, so this just might be if you have slight OCD like me}.
But what’s this? The cranberry sauce cannot be stacked like the other cans because it’s labeled upside down?! What?! So you either have to flip the can over so the label is pointing the wrong way {unacceptable} or you have to set it on top of together cans without locking the cans in place {also, unacceptable!}. What is the meaning of this? Does someone know I have major OCD and they are messing with me?
I had to know if it was a conspiracy, so the next time I went to the store, I checked. Sure enough, every last can of cranberry sauce was labeled upside down so the normally rounded bottom of the can became the top. Weird.
When I got home I hit the internet to find out why. Turns out, it wasn’t a mistake. Every last company that manufactures cranberry sauce does it like that on purpose. And they do it to make our lives easier {clearly, they’ve never met anyone who needs their pantry properly organized!}. The rounded end of the can {the normal bottom} is filled with an air bubble vacuum. That makes the sauce slide right out when opened if you simply insert a knife between the can and the jelly. The knife trick allows some air to reach that bubble vacuum, and push the cranberry sauce out.
Then you have a perfect mound of cranberry sauce to slice into perfectly equal portions, and your Thanksgiving dinner tables looks amazing. I suppose they are forgiven for wreaking havoc on my perfectly organized pantry!
And now you know. Did you ever ever notice the can was upside down?
Did it make you crazy?
~Mavis
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