How many cans of tomatoes does Dan Shaughnessy have in his pantry?

Shaughnessy sure does love him some tomato cans. He mentions them every chance he can, like in his no doubt intensively researched, carefully crafted column today:

Little Tomato Cans sitting in a row. They all fall down.

Thanks to Dan Shaughnessy Watch for noticing this since they read Shaughnessy so we don't have to.

Now, back in January, I discovered that Shaughnessy was using the inane tomato-can metaphor at a rapidly escalating pace, almost as if he knew the thing was rapidly approaching its sell-by date and he needed to use it all up.

How's he done since? Including today's column, he's used the phrase 9 times since that review, including one in May in which he posited "Celtics are the new tomato can in town" (how's that workin' out for ya, Dan?) and declared "Je suis Tomato Can."

Tomato-can photo by Paul Sableman. Posted under this Creative Commons license.