Weird. Who is so violently opposed to peeling a couple of vegetables? I mean, lazy now and then, okay.

I have never seen canned lentils, and would laugh and laugh at them. I do come from canning people -- I remember my stepmother standing over the pressure-cooker in August, red-faced -- but she only ever canned pickled beets, not plain ones. (Plus green beans, wax beans, applesauce, and I don't remember what else. The beans were the biggie, and I still don't really believe beans are cooked until they're gray. It is a thing.)