I am not sure what this means but they often seem to use this term on the TV
show, Chopped. Usually in reference to tomatoes. Tonight it was about
tomato soup. They always say that it should have been cooked longer to get
the taste out.

Now maybe it's because I grew up eating a lot of canned food but I just
don't get it. As a kid, we had canned ravioli, chili, soup and vegetables.
I will say that canned vegetables do have a mushier quality to them.
Exception perhaps being corn and some brands of dried beans. And most of
the soup and other foods like ravioli are not to my liking for a couple of
reasons. One being the mushiness of being canned and the other being
ingredients that I would not put in the dish if I made it from scratch.
Like HFCS or sugar. Gives them an oddly sweet taste.

Maybe I am taking what they are saying as wrong. I am assuming that they
mean that they can actually taste the can. And that cooking it for longer
would make that taste go away.

The only thing like this that I have tasted that tasted really foul to me
was Muir Glen pasta sauce. This is the product, and no, I didn't buy from
them.

http://www.plummarket.com/home/muir-...es+pasta+sauce

As you can see, there are a few ingredients that I wouldn't put in there if
I were to make it at home. But I can't see what would give it an off taste.
And it does have an off taste. So much so that I couldn't even doctor it to
be edible. I bought it once at what used to be my local health food store.
They decided to stock it instead of the Amy's because it was so much
cheaper. I then begged the owner to please get the Amy's again and I would
pay any price for it because the Muir Glen was so bad. He then told me that
I was the 5th person to have told him the same thing! In the end, they
wound up selling both because some people did buy the Muir Glen.

Please note that I am not knocking the Muir Glen brand. I have bought other
of their products and they were fine.

So what do you think is meant by a canned food taste? And can you taste it?