Canned whole chicken

Yuck.

Oh noes! My eyes!

Did you actually taste it?

This was posted on a forum that I'm a moderator of and I surely don't plan to taste it!

Did they kill it before it implanted a baby one in their chests?

If you want to see someone eat a chicken in a can, the AV club did a "taste test" of it a couple months ago:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/chicken-in-a-can,23883/

Hi,

The picture on the can suggested it was stuffed, but it sure doesn't look like it.

Iis there really a head on there or is that just the neck folded a bit oddly? Any idea how much this cost?

Regards,

It also shows lettuce and peppers. I think that's a "serving suggestion." They ruined the packaging. It used to be much more old-fashioned. BTW, I used to get Sweet Sue chicken and dumplings back in my dorm days. Not as bad as you'd think.

I used to have some Amish kids that worked for me. One time she said she loved when they slaughtered an animal because they got fresh meat. It turns out that they canned all of their meat (no electricity).

teatpuller wrote:I used to have some Amish kids that worked for me. One time she said she loved when they slaughtered an animal because they got fresh meat. It turns out that they canned all of their meat (no electricity).

Being from one of those farm families that canned pork, beef, and chicken annually, the canned product can be quite excellent. In fact the canned beef my wife's uncle did a couple of years ago was infinitely better than some of the fresh product. It was tender and flavorable.

It was a lot easier to can the meat than to freeze it (especially in one of the older style freezers) and you lost less to freezer burn.

Now if your frame of reference is the government commodity product, it is better to be a vegetarian.

those are some of the most unappetizing picutes I have ever seen, especially the one with the gelatin coated chicken sliding out of the can.

It's funny, in researching recipes for Derby Day, one of the dishes I kept finding was "pressed chicken," a de-boned, boiled, gelatin-covered dish. One photo shows an entire boiled chicken (or possibly a turkey) covered in detailed green-pepper and carrot cutouts, the space between the legs and breasts filled in with a pile of peas - and the entire thing glued together with a slick of aspic.

We've moved away from dishes like these, but cold meats in their own jelly are quite good once you get past the initial culture shock. Depending on what the ingredients of the canned chicken are, I bet it's quite tasty- I'd rather have that than the completely flavorless canned Swanson "Premium Chunk Chicken" in water.