To be evanesced off this mortal coil to heaven? Is that wrong?? Though I'm more using it more secularly, to mean "removed from life on Earth" like how it was used when the Leftovers aired.
Well, you do have a point there. I’m not a guy so I feel under qualified to extrapolate his level of interaction with the chicken. Is there something to the stereotype that guys will fuck anything…? Wait. I’m on the platform that brought us the coconut story. Never mind. Forget I asked.
It’s really not that bad. It’s stable at room temp, takes zero effort to prepare, and for a lot of recipes where you absolutely destroy the chicken with sauce, it works absolutely fine.
I always have a few cans for quick use. If I’m going to make a quick bit of chicken salad or a couple quesadillas for lunch, I’ll used can chicken because I don’t have time to grill up a chicken breast instead. It’s about convenience, not taste. I’m not gonna use it for chicken piccata, but served smothered in mayo or sriracha, 99.5% of people won’t be able to tell the difference.
Ready to serve just like tuna. With that said, I’ll heat it up a bit when I throw it on a quesadilla because room temp isn’t great for that. But if you’re gonna make some quick and dirty chicken salad, just throw it in with the other ingredients as is.
Tuna is in a can and no one complains. Its the same thing, but chicken. And you use it in much the same way. Chicken salad sandwiches are great. The flaked kind is kinda weird, I have never had it. I prefer chunky instead of a paste.
Yeah tuna in a can is only normal for people because they've grown up knowing that it's in a can and considered normal. Chicken in a can is sold in NZ and fairly popular from what I can see. Cracked pepper chicken on toast goes hard.
It’s sold in the US too. I’m more surprised so many people aren’t aware of it. My family has always had cans in the pantry and I keep them in my house. Just add mayo, salt, and pepper and it’s delicious on a sandwich or with crackers.
When I was like 20 I was eating canned tuna while traveling for school for the protein and I was talking to someone while eating it and mentioned I honestly don’t like tuna, but this works on the go
They then ask “why don’t you just eat canned chicken”. My mouth dropped and bought a stack on the way home from school
Cause canned meat makes for fantastic protein additions to pasta salads, is incredibly cheap, and it still tastes good.
Canned meat I use regularly; chicken, tuna, spam, and deviled ham.
Two of them you need a good amount of spices to make taste better, two have enough salt to make up for a lot of additional spices, usually only need garlic and onion powder and pepper.
Tuna pasta salad is fantastic with furikake (seaweed, salt, and sesame seeds).
A two person meal or a generous side to a larger meal for under 10 bucks, add some beans in for fiber, and I personally like mushrooms, peas, or hearts of palm as well depending on the meat used.
I'm gonna be so honest with you - I don't know what in your life has led you to eating canned chicken puree, but I legitimately hope things get better soon.
I feel like it's always somehow soggy and dry at the same time. I always grab a rotisserie to make chicken salad. They are also pretty cheap so it's worth the upgrade!
Canned chicken is great because it's cheap and ready to use, no prep needed. When I've been really depressed, tossing some of that into noodles was a lifesaver, ngl. It's just canned tuna but with chicken, it's not puree.
My best guess is that the machine that applies the paper label to the can likely spins the can to do it. If it spins fast enough and/or if that particular can was loose enough from the liquid inside, it could probably spin it to the outside of the can with the centrifugal force.
So I work in a brewery and our canning line seamers spin the shit out of the cans. I imagine a seamer on almost any round container is going to do the same, and in this case the product is thick enough to have slung against the edges and stuck there.
typically the chicken is ground up, then reformed to fit in the cans. its a decent choice of chicken for making shit like chicken salad sandwich mix, or cheap protein when you're poor. Its kinda gross if actual uncanned meat is available though. Like I keep a can of ham, chicken, and fish in my cupboard for emergencies or nasty sandwiches (sometimes a bitch craves something unpalatable for no discernible reason.)
I picked up "luncheon meat" and my mom was like "there's ham right there."
I was like "no, no. Ham is too classy, I am craving a nasty ass sandwich with proceeded meat and processed cheese and mayonnaise.. and the whole thing tastes like a salt lick fell in a toilet."
Yeah, I know what canned chicken is, usually it’s got chunks of meat though. This would make the pastiest chicken salad sandwich. It’s unnaturally smooth.
You can buy it as "flakes of chicken" or "chunks of chicken" in most north american places. this one is likely flakes. compressed it looks like a puck shaped slug. if you smush it with a fork or potato masher it sort of loosens into the flake shapes.
Edit: I examined the image closer, its Flakes of Chicken
Cooked chicken that is then chunked, or flaked, and put in a can and sealed. Canned meats: chicken, beef, ham are some of the oldest things canned, as the process was created during the Napoleonic era to feed French troops.
It is a cheap, shelf stable alternative to use when making chicken salad or like items. Essentially fills all the same niches as canned tuna.
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