1y ago

Why does this exist?

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Welp, Idk how to gif
- 10/10 hilariously horrifying
- This is the gif I reply with anytime I get a spam text.
- Holy fuck, i just sprayed coffee on my screen.
  
  Not gravy?
- Came to the comments to make sure someone posted this lmao
- Needs more jpeg
- There you go. I reused your link like this:
  ![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/635/624/224.gif)
- How does one even come up with that?
- good Lord!

LOOK AT IT
- Hmm, well using it for chicken soup does make some sense I guess. Might be useful for a pandemic stash.
- What's that she said about peanut butter sauce? What's that got to do with cold gelled canned whole chicken?
  
  Oh right!

Your scientists were so preoccupied with canned chicken, they didn't stop to think if they should chicken.

what would be the best temperature for fucking this?
- Aight, imma head out. Enough Internet for today.
- 37
  
  Well, to be honest, that's generally the best temperature to fuck anything... unless of course, you are one of those weirdos
  
  is this kelvin or BTUs?
- 69

Food, especially fresh food, used to be a lot more expensive when adjusting for inflation. A canned chicken like this doesn't look super appetizing right out of the can, but it probably tasted OK after you shredded it and put it in a casserole. And it was significantly cheaper than buying a fresh whole roasted chicken, assuming you lived somewhere that fresh whole roasted chickens were even readily available. Food like this became particularly popular during the great depression, and stuck around for decades afterwards.
Nowadays, between industrialized farming, highly optimized supply chains, and a buttload of government subsidy, fresh food is comparatively cheap. You can get a whole roasted chicken right off the spit for $5-10 at just about any grocery store. So for most people the value proposition of a $3 canned chicken isn't really there anymore, especially if you don't have an enormous baby-boom-era sized family to feed.

It looks nasty but I bet you that "gelatin" actually makes for some fantastic stock
- If you love Buffalo chicken dip you've probably enjoyed this type of chicken before.
- I looked up the ingredients and apparently it's only chicken, water, and salt, so it's gotta be the chicken's own stock (since it's fully cooked).
  Looks disgusting I guess but I suppose it's far healthier than many of the more delicious looking products the food industry churns out every day.
  
  It looks disgusting cuz it's canned and cold lol. Whenever I cook with real chicken or even beef and there's broth leftover, it will turn into slight gelatin due to the collagen in the bones! There is flavor and protein in there. It'll just liquidify when you heat it up and it's some seasonings and a pinch of flour away from being gravy too.
  Wild how cooking can get when you start to understand ingredients more

I think you are supposed to cook it for a bit under the grill and it will look fine.
- That's what the girl in the video mentioned here did, and it didn't seem to turn out that great.
  Perhaps using it for soup, as many other commenters have suggested, is the better move here.

One time I shot one of these with a 454 casull revolver and it created a 20 foot wide mushroom cloud of protein
- pink mist
  
  Least unhinged gender reveal

Remove this image from existence right now.

Probably would be fine for soup or stock.
- I looked up the ingredients, and apparently it's literally only chicken, water, and salt. So it could be worse I guess. Might be useful to have around if SHTF.
  
  Why would shit hit the floor? Do you poop downwards? Fucking weirdo.

There’s a video from Ashens where he tries this. It’s actually rather disturbing.
- Well you can't just mention it without linking to the video.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  linking to the video.
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- Do you mean Ashens?
  
  Yes, autocorrect ruined it.
- As well as L.A. Beast, if that's more your flavor (and not just once, but twice).
  
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some people take their canning process to the extremes.
as an aside, I've never seen a canned pickle product. I guess they stopped at chicken.
- as an aside, I’ve never seen a canned pickle product.
  What? Lots and lots of pickles are canned (all the ones at the store, except for some of the refrigerated ones). They just do it in glass jars instead of metal.
  Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted for stating a fact. Shelf-stable pickles (that aren't lacto-fermented) like this...
  
  ...are, in fact, considered "canned." If you don't believe me, call up Vlasic yourself and ask them if "canning" accurately describes their manufacturing process. The number is right there on the jar in the picture: 1-800-421-3265.
  Edit 2: Just to be even more clear, pickles like this:
  
  Are not canned. The difference isn't the container (which has exactly the same kind of "lug" or "twist-off" lid as the Vlasic jar), but the fact that this one isn't pasteurized and has a warning label telling you to keep it refrigerated.
  
  This is the kind of shit the internet was made to argue about.
  
  Everybody gangster until the pickles come from Uranus
  
  If you don't believe me, call up Vlasic yourself
  Loved that
  
  He's obviously talking about metal cans instead of glass jars, not the manufacturing process called canning.
  
  When something is put into a can, it's considered canned.
  When something is put into a jar, it's considered jarred.
  This concludes session 6497 of Getting More Familiar With Your Own Native Language.
- psst
  Can we “as an aside” ourselves now?
  I feel like a Pokémon evolved. I’ve wanted to do that.

ITT people who don't make their own food
- Well, you got me.
  Guilty as charged.
- What does ITT mean?
  
  in this thread

I want to see a prochef use this for a recipe.
My best guess use would be to use it for a stock and make a soup or chili. Might work any application poached chicken is needed.
- I want to see a prochef use this for a recipe.
  Probably not going to happen. I watched the review mentioned in this comment and the verdict was that isn't not particularly flavorful when just baked in the oven, as the can apparently recommends.
  Does sound like a decent option for making soup, however. Especially during a pandemic.
  
  The channel i was thinking of is Epicurious. They have some videos using canned tuna that look edible, at least. There is an example in the link.

Have you people never heard of chicken soup?
- That's 2 cans over.
- Obviously they never cooked one
  
  If I'm making chicken soup, WHY would I start with canned meat? It's like buying the shittiest plain cake at the store to bring home and decorate with your own, painstakingly homemade frosting.
  Chicken carcasses to make soup/broth base (and get some of the meat) is all stuff you would otherwise throw away and is basically the same effort yeah?
  
  If I'm making chicken soup, WHY would I start with canned meat? It's like buying the shittiest plain cake at the store to bring home and decorate with your own, painstakingly homemade frosting.
  Chicken carcasses to make soup/broth base (and get some of the meat) is all stuff you would otherwise throw away and is basically the same effort yeah?

The Matrix for chickens

Emmymade on YouTube did an “Apocalypse Dinner” featuring these whole canned things, the chicken, brown bread, and cheese being the subjects of the video.
She’s pretty fun and tries out some odd stuff occasionally, but this particular episode stuck in my mind as I’d never seen one of these prepared and eaten before. She also has Apocalypse Breakfast, Hamburger In A Can, among others.
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I'm out.

If someone is going camping, or to a cabin with limited or no electricity, this is a convenient way to store chicken. Preppers also buy this stuff.
- Thank you. I see Cunningham’s Law remains in effect.

"Home style goodness"
I bet
- who raises chickens, slaughters them, then cans them at home? can y'all attest to these home style claims by Sweet Sue?

Good fucking God, what have we become?!

Growing up latch key many a canned chicken was turned into chicken salad.
Tastes better than it looks but that's not saying much. Would not recommend but if yer hungry dive in.

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This is why Americans are the only country that doesn't get to insult British food.
- American living abroad, food is one of the things I miss the most, and not just classic American foods. But, outside of extremely large metropolises, international options are often lacking in European cities in general.
  
  But, outside of extremely large metropolises, international options are often lacking in European cities in general.
  That's true in America too no? Like from my experience even fairly large towns just have the major fast food brands and not much else, unless they're on the southern border.
- IDK, my Memphis style ribs and blackened burger with caramelized onions and blue cheese begs to differ.
  But I don't really know much about British food aside for the jokes about depressing bean dishes and of course the "English breakfast." Lol
  I literally just ate and I'm making myself hungry again thinking about those ribs...
  
  That's because you haven't had the perfect british dish ever created! Chicken tikka masala, the most british dish you could ever find. Beloved by all. Very British. Definitely not from, influenced, or inspired by any other country or its diaspora. Nope....
  Whats wrong with the English breakfast? You definitely didn't have one you'd be full until dinner time otherwise.
  
  Sorry I forget Americans don't get banter.

New Ordinary Sausage video idea

"fully cooked"

I can't chicken this.

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