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 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 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.