And originally, they used champagne bottles for canning. It was when the inventor of the process (or one of his associates) moved to England that they switched to metal cans.
Right you are CT and the two British inventors began using the tin coated iron cans for food with lead solder as I mentioned and depending what they contained, leeched lead into the food. This may have led to many of the deaths of the ill fated Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845. Archeologists and forensic anthropologists were able to examine three perfectly preserved bodies from the expedition and found high levels of lead in their systems (see the Franklin mummies). So canning got off to a pretty shaky start. But I digress, back to Pat and his predictions about god wiping out the homosexual population with hurricanes.
Cap't Jack