"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>>sf wrote:
>>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> sf wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Have you figured out yet where this supposed "Chinese chicken" is
>>>> > being sold.... Walmart maybe?
>>>>
>>>> I have seen that claim. I am eating some now. Let's see if I die.
>>>> Oh!
>>>> I'm eating it out of a Melamine soup mug made in China.
>>>
>>> You bought chicken that said Product of China? Was it blue skinned?
>>
>>No and no. The chicken is canned. Bought it from Amazon. A product
>>reviewer said it is a Sam's Club brand and that the chicken is from China
>>even though it is packaged in the US. Don't know if any of that is true.
>
> I buy canned chicken breast all the time, I like it better than tuna.
> Canned chicken also costs about 1/3 the price of tuna and it doesn't
> have that mercury issue.
> Walmart sells Swanson brand, a Campbell Soup company.
> BJs sells their own brand; Berkley & Jensen.
> Both cans say "Made in the U.S.A."
> Both cans have the seal "Inspected by USDA".
> Did it contain chicken from China it would be canned in China and the
> label would say so, like it does with many canned foods, ie.
> mushrooms. The US doesn't import live chickens for food, they'd need
> to be held in quarantine for about a month, then a can of chicken
> would cost like $100 or more. The US raises more chicken than people
> can eat... if anything the US exports canned chicken. The only
> chicken from China I know of is in some crummy brands of pet food.

I only said that one person posted a comment to that effect on Amazon.
Otherwise the chicken came highly rated. I tried it and found it to be no
better or worse than any other canned that I have found.

Canned chicken is one thing that I have gotten for free, countless times
with coupons. I can get tuna for cheap but I have never gotten it for free.

To me, canned chicken and canned tuna are very similar. Same sort of
texture and the taste isn't that far off in terms of differences. I also
buy canned turkey for use in gravy and casseroles. But it is harder to
find.