She had a little box of wooden matches in the shed, which she used for lighting her canned heat so she could do a tiny bit of cooking.

A saturated solution of calcium acetate in alcohol forms a semisolid, flammable gel forms that is much like "canned heat" products such as Sterno.

Slinking through the slums, picking pockets, drinking canned heat, bumming dimes.

The fire, which started in a luxury suite leased by a local radio station, apparently was caused by a container of canned heat left unattended under a chafing dish.

(She did not think Roland would sneer at the idea of canned heat anymore, and she was right.)

Fermi had a glass coffeepot set up above a tin of canned heat.

They just wanted to know on my radio, does she always demand canned heat when her heart acts up?

Chester asked, grabbing the coffee pot that perked lazily over the blue flame of canned heat.

Cliff lighted a tin of canned heat and placed a tiny kettle over the flame.

He'd be a bum, hungry, skinny, begging on the streets of Harlem, sleeping in doorways, drinking canned heat to keep warm.