(144 quotes found)
“We'd tie cans to our (cars) and drag them through the street and there would be fireworks. You make noise for a long and happy life.”
Elise Marquis
“They even stole the damn garbage cans.”
Frank Sibley
“He challenged all of the clubs in our district to see who could collect the most amount of canned goods for the Haitian Health Foundation.”
Samantha Lee
“We have exhausted our supply of canned meats. We need things like cans of chili, crackers, flour, corn meal, dried spaghetti and dried beans and rice. We have plenty of vegetables but we need those things to round the meal out.”
David Warrick
“They're not going around foraging in garbage cans and things like that.”
Stan Gehrt
“Basically I started canning because of the economics of it. And I like the taste of home-canned green beans better than the ones from the store.”
Dave Baker
“Last winter we canned venison, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, chili sauce, tomato soup, turkey, catsup, barbecue sauce, fish, sweet potatoes, duck, butternut squash, pumpkins and potatoes. You might say that whatever we find, we can. The entries will help out the competition at the fair and it will give the boys a little bit of income.”
Janel Maurer
“I had never canned jams and jellies so we tried that. This year we are going to add jalapeno pepper jelly and canned squirrel. The canned squirrel was Smokey's idea. We asked the Fair Board to add it to the list of acceptable items and they did.”
“Anyone who's interested in helping can call me, and we can bring them a cage to collect cans in, build a hut for them and put them on the regular pick-up route - whatever we can do to help others help us, we'll gladly do.”
Roberta Keefe
