This tastes delicious. Now, how can we squash it into a tin can?
This is the question posed by all food company chief executives whenever a new food combination is discovered. By squashing food into a can, it can be stored for longer, shipped further and sold more cheaply than any other food storage method.
The other advantage to canning food is this: cans can be stacked. And by stacking cans creatively, distributors can create incredible displays: a tomato soup display in the shape of a tomato, a baked-bean display in the shape of a bean or a dog food display in the shape of a horse's rectum!
But this pastime isn't limited to food distributors - private individuals are free to build can structures as high as they please. And the largest canned food structure is the work of one such individual.
For in May 2010, Joe Lorison of Henley-Upon-Thames, UK, completed the largest canned food structure - a 1:1 reproduction of the iconic science fiction spacecraft, the I don't think it was called anything, from the film Flight of the Navigator!
It is made entirely from cans of tuna fish!