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Originally posted by Misterstone:
<STRONG>I second it... and would also like to see sausages added as a way to squeeze (no pun intended) some further nutrition out of animal chunks and otherwise inedible parts.Also, maybe iron cans or glass jars for food preservation would be cool too .</STRONG>
Sealed cans require certain manufacturing techniques not present in pre-industrialized societies (for one thing, the cans are often lined with a polymer. For another, it takes certain tricks of machinery to hermetically seal the metal after filling it with food).
Jars, however, are win... but it's rare that whatever is sealed in a jar is a finished meal, more often it's an ingredient. Beyond that, "canning" (in jars) should take fuel, because you're autoclaving the food as part of the process.
Summary: sounds bloaty
Salted meat, however, is something that was very, very prevalent in and crucial to ancient civilized life and would be easy enough to do since it would give rock salt purpose as a resource, create salt as a trade good (understatement, salt was literally currency in some societies), and be useful since maybe you don't want to cook that herd of dead elephants all up at the same time.
[ June 06, 2008: Message edited by: MuonDecay ]