Or, oh yes, that did deserve crazy caps – warning gross pictures below!
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.
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.
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.
Wow, Sweet Sue doesn’t look so sweet upside down.
My 3 year old was fascinated. That’s chocolate on his face, btw from the other taste test we did today.
And it’s out!
Close up of some sort of something. All I know is that it wasn’t the giblets, as those are not included.
I poured all of this off to roast the chicken.
Goofball wanted to make sure I got a picture of his whole face!
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.
Out of the oven after 15+ minutes at 475 as instructed. It never did get brown.
It was really scrawny!
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!
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BTW, I am pleased to announce you can get a six pack of Sweet Sue whole chicken in a can for only $49.99 and $30.70 shipping 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! Besides, it’s a public service to let people know where they can buy Baconnaise
and tvs that cost more than a lot of people make in a year.
If you are interested in learning how to can your own chicken, here are instructions for canning chicken breasts.




















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I have a vintage cook book with recipes using the Pinafore canned chicken of that time.
That is the most disgusting thing that I have seen in a long time. It always amazes me that more and more of our foods are becoming so processed and we all just get so use to it. yuck!
Dennis
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‘Serving suggestion: Serve cold just as the chicken comes from the can.’ LOVE!
Man, that’s so gross.
Id eat it!
If I had a can of that, I would first say a prayer for the poor chicken and then I’d chuck it at my sister’s head.
oh the humanity….err….poultry
i dread to think what a life that chicken led.
Being a vegetarian and animal lover, I find this deeply disturbing, revolting and sad.
OMG I think I just threw up a little! Ah ha ha! I like canned chicken but not WHOLE! It looks like the can gave birth!
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Yea I agree that is a little gross. Perhaps a good dinner for an ex girlfriend?
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Okay, not that’s the grossest thing I’ve seen all day… totally unappetizing! I think I’ll stick with ham for Easter dinner!
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Nasty. Seriously.
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seriously this is so gross , I will move to vegetarianism
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Oh. My. Heavens. I think that I may have just thrown up in my mouth a little bit.
The End.
P.S. However, I will keep this in mind when trying to shave off a few lbs.- quite sure it will work like a charm! Thanks for sharing!
You know, I’ve been told I’m a great weight loss aid a few times today…
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holy crap. I’ve never seen chicken in a can and won’t be looking for it. No affilliate love from me. It looks congealed. Thanks for the warning in case I may have seen it and thought it was a good idea. How big was the can?
BTW. I came from a link Kathy (The Junk Drawer) posted on Facebook.
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Hi Rachele! The can was a bit smaller than those cans that V8 juice used to come in. I imagine the chicken was about 3 lbs, it was a pretty scrawny thing.
A girl I dated used this type of chicken and other canned varieties to make chicken broth when she was sick. I think she grew up pretty well below the poverty line as I understand the government hands these out for food programs.
I think that they probably do. Like I said, it wasn't nasty tasting, just rather bland. A fresh chicken would be worlds better but if I were in a situation where it was this or nothing, I'd have this.
It did look rather foul but that was partly staging.
This is absolutely disgusting! I love it! I ate some canned Member's Mark chicken at supper and woke up at 2 AM puking my guts out, among other things. I googled canned chicken and food poisoning and this is what comes up. Never again. Never!
Oh no! I'm so sorry. For what it's worth, one of my kids was puking last night and his brother woke up and puked all morning and it was well over a year ago that that chicken was in our house so maybe there is just a virus going around the whole world.
Hope you feel better today!
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I dont think this was such a great idea….i'm pretty sure i just threw up in my mouth
that’s like watching a breach deliverly
I love your blog chicken in a can is the one that started my following you both here and on twitter i dont know if u have already heard of them or not but would love to see your review of candwiches when and if they ever release here is their web site http://www.markonefoods.com thanks and keep the wierd foods coming i just cant seem to get enough
Hi Matt,
I have contacted Mark One Foods but haven’t received any reply. I’ll let you know if I get my hands on some product to review. Thanks for the comment!
Tracy
Your kid is so cute…love the look on his face…
Those pictures made me hungry now 

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Thanks! And I think you’re the only person who has ever said that about this post. In fact, I’m going to see if Jenny Craig will sponsor it based on how many people use it as a diet aid.
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!
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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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