A WHOLE chicken in a CAN

by Tracy

Or, oh yes, that did deserve crazy caps – warning gross pictures below!

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You might remember I bought this at the same time I bought the canned pork brains in milk gravy. At the time, I did not fully comprehend that it was an ENTIRE chicken bones and all inside the can.

BTW you can’t see it but under the lettuce, on the far right it says “serving suggestion”. Yeah, why not also suggest you poop gold and fart jet fuel? It is also without giblets, don’t want to know what they did with those.

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Here are the serving suggestions. I decided to roast it according to the instructions provided for the purest experience. It had been chilling in my fridge for a month at least before I opened it today.

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When you open the can, this is what you see. Little chicken knuckles poking out from the schmaltz. I initially wanted to pull out the chicken and reserve the broth in the can, but the bones were too wiggly, so I had to pour it out.

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Wow, Sweet Sue doesn’t look so sweet upside down.

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My 3 year old was fascinated. That’s chocolate on his face, btw from the other taste test we did today.

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And it’s out!

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Close up of some sort of something. All I know is that it wasn’t the giblets, as those are not included.

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I poured all of this off to roast the chicken.

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Goofball wanted to make sure I got a picture of his whole face!

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Bowl of reserved goo. Realized I did not in fact want to keep it and tossed it down the garbage disposal. I did taste it (the broth part, not the fat globs and mystery bits) with my finger and it was very weak like somebody had just dunked a chicken in some water.

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Out of the oven after 15+ minutes at 475 as instructed. It never did get brown.

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It was really scrawny!

 

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And the taste? There really wasn’t any. The white meat was a bit more cottony than the dark meat, but it all tasted like all the flavor had been cooked out. Sort of like the little bits of chicken in condensed chicken noodle soup. I thought before cooking it that I might use the meat in some sort of chicken salad, like you’d use canned chunk chicken breast but this is seriously lacking and I don’t think anyone would eat it. I am going to strip the meat and put it out for the neighborhood cats (not in front of my house though!) it doesn’t seem too salty or anything, so I think it will be okay.

You can see all my Chicken in a Can Photos here.

And check out my brother’s video review of canned silkworm pupa. I only coerced him a little bit!

BTW, I am pleased to announce you can get a six pack of Sweet Sue whole chicken in a can from Amazon. That is my affiliate link, btw, I’m sure you can understand me trying to get in on the meat in a can market while I can as I’m sure it’s about to boom. If I sell enough haggis and spotted dick the O’Boys can go to college!

If you are interested in learning how to can your own chicken, here are instructions for canning chicken breasts.

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  • http://www.theofficialmagicofmakingupreview.com/ Thomas Trumen

    I have to say that does look disgusting coming out of that can but i bet it tastes really good when its done being cooked. I dont think i would want to cook it but i would definitely eat it!

  • http://www.theofficialmagicofmakingupreview.com/ TW Jackson

    I have never heard of sweet so chicken. Where to you buy that stuff because i have never seen it in the store. I could try cooking that for dinner and some other things to go with it.

  • http://www.theofficialmagicofmakingupreview.com/ TW Jackson

    I have never heard of sweet so chicken. Where to you buy that stuff because i have never seen it in the store. I could try cooking that for dinner and some other things to go with it.

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  • derp

    Like fuck that’s an unjustified reason. Morals don’t even come into it. It’s because this shit is fucking gross.

    and yeah, enjoy your steak, you REBEL~~ you

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  • guest

    Dude… if there were Zombie Chickens… this would be one.

  • http://www.howtogettingbackwithmyex.com/ Getting Ex Back

    Lol, that can just BIRTHED a chicken. Gross

  • http://www.sixthirtythree.wordpress.com Sixthirtythree

    Why put a whole chicken in a can?

  • Anonymous

    Kill it Kill it!

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  • Justinbussell

    she speaks of canned chunk chicken breast like it’s acceptable to put on a salad and serve to people

  • watchforyou

    Time ha inoltre aderito la vicenda umana del progetto, puoi caricare le tue foto o il testo e dire che sono normalmente difficili da esprimere a parole, faremo del nostro meglio per soddisfare le vostre esigenze, per creare la tua orologi esclusivi, evidenziare le personalità, veramente, “io guardo il mio padrone!”
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  • Jjames

    You have never been hungry. Not just ready for dinner.

  • http://blogstalk.com blogger

    I’ve eaten canned chicken meat before, but it wasn’t a whole chicken with bones and guts.

  • Tjm101987

    as a chef this is nasty it looks so WRONG

  • Billychn8

    It looks… raw. How the hell did “Sweet Sue” cram that into a can?!Makes me never want to eat chicken again.Which begs the question, was it in the process of evolving when it was crammed into the can with a cupful of its own intestinal fluids?
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  • Zach

    i like that they use the word ‘delicious’ 3 times in the instructions. If we say it enough maybe we’ll convince them its true!

  • Ben

    Oh my god, this hasn’t just put me off tinned chicken (which I wasn’t even aware you could get) but ALL tinned meat, that is the most disgusting food I’ve ever come across!

  • Wilycoyote

    umm.. it says 15 servings? that chicken was 15 servings?..

  • Deon Eve

    It does not look good. I can not eat this chicken.

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    I don’t think that I can eat this chicken. It not looks good.

  • Kate

    Oh my, how can it look like that? Sorry, but disgusting looking chicken. No more chicken for me, for 2 weeks at least.Kate

  • T2sister

    Hey the only time I ever bought a sweet sue product there was a nasty huge some kind of black bug in it. That pretty much taught me to cook my own damn chicken..

  • FrancaisSiVousPlait

    This is SO beyond disturbing. Seriously, that was horrifying. Like a car accident where you really REALLY want to look away, but You. Just. Can’t. Although I considered barfing multiple times, thank you for sharing, it was… educational.

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  • Nyayaya

    I love the way they try and cement the idea of the gloop in the can being “delicious sauce” rather than a horrifying ordeal.

  • http://obbop.wordpress.com/ obbop

    I fed a platoon of semi-starved Marines with one can of canned chicken.

    After those Marines found out what they had eaten they demanded more; declaring it was even tastier than pickled Viet Cong ears.

  • http://ClinicalPosters.com ClinicalPosters

    How can you complain about the taste when you threw out the “delicious broth?” You were supposed to baste the chicken with it. ;-)

  • Producer

    Hey we just did a video review of the exact product!

  • Kara Oh Review

    Interesting

  • Robbvann

    The canned chicken is already cooked so what did you expect? A good hurricane food and would probably make a decent chicken salad sandwich.  But since I havent bought one yet, I’m just guessing by your photographs.  I was recently interested in Baconnaise but when I read the label in the supermarket ($5.69 for a small jar) the smoke flavoring was the 18th ingrediant and there was no bacon at all which explains why it is labeled Kosher!  But once again I haven’t tried it so what if it really is as excellent as some people say? P.S. I think the word grodiest is actually grotiest as the expression comes from the word grotesque, popularized by the Beatles in “A Hard Days Night”–”Groty”. I think it all comes down to 42!

    • Joolyer

      Er, that would “grotty”

  • Dan Aplet

    Yes i do remember chicken in a can,Chicken did have flavor (tasted like boiled chicken) and yes it will brown.the stock is wonderful for making all kinds of stuff. I would sure like to know who sells it today

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  • http://itsworthitall.blogspot.com Lyzz

    Well you obviously did not judge this nasty thing by how it looks, because you said that you tasted it…which you deserve a medal for. 

    Mouth sweats, this is nasty.

    • D Aplet

      The reason it looks the way it does is because of the natural gelatin in the Chicken stock that comes from the bones.When heated the gelatin will melt. 

  • http://twitter.com/mr_jcb_1973 John Cieślik-Bridgen

    Not ‘free range’ chicken I rather suspect

  • Miranda_g96

    Sweet sue should be shot. thats really gross. ewwwww. The can is my phones screensaver saw it at H.E.B. for $2.25 and thought it was hilarious.

  • Me

    I’d have rubbed some paprika and garlic powder and just a tiny pinch of salt on the exterior and cooked it long enough to brown it.

    Also, the broth is salvageable and usable, you just have to boil it down a bit to strengthen it and add a bit of salt and perhaps pepper.  Then it can be thickened with cornstarch to make serviceable, if not great, chicken gravy.

    Imagine being a 1950s housewife.  Surely this would have been a godsend.

  • Kia

    HORRIBLE 
    AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH FOOD 

  • Slumpy

    I feel sick…that is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen…

  • http://rosebeautybox.blogspot.com/ Sundari

    that is vile..

  • Lmstatz

    My Mother in Law used to home can chicken.  It was great and she had the quart jar packing down to a science.  The chickens were cut up and she knew just how to put them in there so a whole chicken would fit.

  • Ke

    so how big was the can?

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