On Tue, 05 May 2009 09:16:15 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote,
>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.

The part I don't get is, why whole? Separated and deboned canned
chicken meat sounds a whole lot more attractive to me.