The Recursive Can: How a Single Tin of Corned Beef Repeated the...

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2026-06-03 00:01:55 -

The Recursive Can: How a Single Tin of Corned Beef Repeated the Pattern of a Dying Empire

The can sits on a walnut shelf in the American Food History Museum on West Adams Street, Chicago. It is displayed in a glass case labeled "Early Commercial Canning, 1880–1900," between a squat sardine tin from Portland, Maine, and a tall cylindrical can of condensed milk from Elgin, Illinois. The can is brown with rust, its label long since dissolved or peeled away. A curator's card identifies...

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