Would Bushie eat this?

[angus]

mmmmmmmmm, canned whole chicken.  yummy.

If that doesn't make you hungry, check out these canned pork brains:



With 1170% of the USDA recommended allowance for cholesterol, you can't go wrong.

[angus]

I agree with you, though, I wouldn't buy it.

If leaves more for me.  We have lots of canned fish.  Just now we have canned tuna, canned kippered herrings, canned sardines in tomato sauce, and canned roasted eel in the pantry.  

The only time I've ever had canned chicken it was in a can sort of like a tunafish can and the chicken was flaky and there was no bone.  It was okay.  Bland and not particularly tasty, but probably nutritious.  I think we mixed it with mayonnaise, garlic, onion, olives, and pickles and made sandwiches out of it.

Flo, just for you:  Here's another attempt from a different website.  Maybe the first one doesn't allow hotlinking.  Anyway, if you can read the nutrition label, check out the cholesterol content.

[angus]

I buy canned tuna and salmon all the time. I just don't think I'd buy it at the dollar store, knowing that in order for them to sell it for less than a dollar and still turn a profit, plenty of corners were cut and no doubt a few regulatory lines were tested.

With that attitude, you'd starve in most of the world.  I suggest that you don't ever leave North America.  Anyway, I've had Dollar Tree tuna and it's not bad.  It's the same as Wal Mart tuna and supermarket tuna and convenience store tuna.  We actually shop at ALDI quite a bit and their tuna is far less than a dollar so I don't have much motivation to get it at the Dollar Tree.

I haven't tried canned salmon, but I never met a canned fish that I didn't like, so I'd be open to that as a possibility. 

[angus]

We can do better today than canned chicken.

The alacrity with which you make that statements leads one to the conclusion that you too have sampled the canned whole chicken.  If you've tried it, then I suppose that you have earned the right to knock it.  I have not, so I would not presume to make such judgments.  We can do better, as you say, but I suspect that we can also do worse.  In fact, most Americans do much worse.  The CDC claims that about 75 percent of the medical expenses go toward diet-related diseases.  I suspect that the whole chicken, once it is deep-fried with a blend of eleven herbs and spices, and served up with a generous portion of french-fried potatoes and about 100 milligrams of salt, will go a long way toward realizing the CDC's claims.  As it comes out of the can, however, that is not the case.  I haven't tried it (and probably won't), but I looked up the nutrition label for it and I think it's probably far less taxing on the cardiology, and therefore less expensive to the taxpayers, than what many of your neighbors are probably already eating.

[angus]

haha.  Inspired by the image of the beheaded, denuded, pimply chicken emerging, thoroughly covered in gel, from the Armour ("a subsidiary of Dial Soap Corporation") Foods can, I googled "bizarre canned meats" to see what would turn up.  Actually, as unappetizing as the picture looks, canned whole chicken probably isn't that bizarre.  I eat chicken fairly often, so I'd probably eat it from a can.  However, there are, apparently, many other really weird things that you can find in a can.  For example, there's canned scorpion, canned fish mouths, canned rattlesnake meat, canned silkworm pupae, canned haggis, canned armadillo, canned monkey, and canned whole lamb tongues, just to name a few.