"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> this could be your dream come true:
>>
>> <http://ihatemymessageboard.com/2009/04/23/a-whole-chicken-in-a-can/>
>>
>> your pal,
>> henrietta
>
> Do I detect a note of sarcasm in your tone, Bucko?
>
> In the 1950s Mom used to travel about 100 miles to a commercial cannery
> to can whole chickens. It had to have been economically practical in
> order for her to do that. For whatever reason, canning some chicken was
> a better plan than freezing them -- probably didn't have a deep freeze.
>
> Don't knock it; if you don't have much in the way of resources, you make
> the best of life as you can with what you do have. I'm pretty sure she
> never served them as 'roasted chicken' but likely used the meat for
> creamed chicken on toast for a crowd.
>

Sam's Club sells all white meat canned chicken, about twice the size of a
tuna can... it's pretty good, for salad, pot pies, whatever. The US Navy
long ago developed freeze dried canned roasted chicken parts, a #10
contained the equivalent of like ten whole chickens... was actually quite
good when cooked in caseroles and such.