"David Harmon" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>
When it's a whole chicken folks know it's not mystery meat.