On Fri, 08 May 2009 19:40:54 GMT in rec.food.cooking, "brooklyn1"
> wrote,
>
>"David Harmon" > wrote in message
om...
>> 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.

Somehow I think Barb's mom knew whether she was canning mystery meat or
not.