3 lbs seems about right for one chicken minus the bones. I assume no beak, feet or feathers, either.

Packed in Brine?
Packed in British Columbia?
Packed in Brown Goo?

This feels like a product made by whoever makes Spam.

Old news. Sweet Sue has been doing this for years (notice the gourmet food header!):

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Caw!

Disgusting!

Words fail me. And the chicken look so happy!
You just don't get those kinds of smiles when you buy frozen or fresh.

Minus the giblets? That's not a whole chicken. I ay false advertising! Executive carpet bomb!

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This magical product belongs in the aisle of fame, much like the Hamburger in a can.

@Ash78: I vote for brine.

I used to keep a can of "Spam, with Cheese!" on my desk at work, for shock value (or to eat if we ever got thrown into a lockdown for several days).

@Ash78: Packed in Broth, I would assume.

It is a whole (suitably trimmed) chicken and yes, it is packed in broth. It's a very small whole chicken. It makes decent emergency cat food if you debone it and put it in the blender with some canned pumpkin (for fiber) and a cat vitamin. It's really not so hot for humans.

Follow me on this.....I was thinking about an old joke about a resturaunt serving a kid's menu entree - Clown Burger, made from 100% ground clown.

So I went to look for a visual. I am so disturbed by this, luncheon meet with a clown face, deli sliced to order.

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Just imagine it in the slicer! "I'll have a half pound of clown bologna please"

Once they figure out FRIED chicken in a can I'm totally in.

Can I get that with some Bacon in a Can?

I remember seeing this in a store when I first moved to Hawaii 4 years ago. I took a picture and sent it to my vegetarian brother. He dared me to buy one and open it, but I was afraid.

This seems like an "emergency dinner" not for, you know, unexpected guests, but for the post-apocalypse shelter. Right in there with the red coconut Zingers.

I've been known to keep a can of chicken breast meat around to mix with some Stove Top stuffing for an easy meal. I don't think I could do the whole chicken in a can thing. I'm having trouble with scale here as I can't quite picture a 50 oz. can.

@marike: I'm with you, I would be scared to open it up and see what is inside.

I keep imagining opening the giant can with a can opener and a whole little chicken pops out, like those Cornish hens. That would definitely cause some nightmares.

@Leohat: check out www.canned-bacon.com for your canned bacon.

College Inn used to make canned chicken. My stepmother made an evil stepmother-ish dish of canned whole chicken, cream of chicken soup, canned mixed vegetables, and Bisquick dumplings. I'm surprised the salt content alone didn't give us strokes.

@SkokieGuy: MMMMMMM. Next time I go to the UK I'm gonna buy some clown meat and have a deliciously terrifying sandwich.

I really like canned food abuses such as this chicken.

@imaLttlGrl: Even better if you he looked at you and went, "Thank you, I've been in there for ages!".

I wonder if anyone calls the company and asks them if they have Chicken in a can, cuz if they do, they better let it it, how's it supposed to breathe?

In six months time a "whole" chicken will magically fit in a 45 oz can.

I'm very dissapointed we do not have a picture of the chicken sans the can. I really want to see whats inside. And no, I'm never going to spend my own money to buy it and find out.

My parents buy canned salmon that contains the entire visible spinal column mixed into the chunks of flesh with skin attached.

"Just mash it up, you won't know it's there. The bones are what give you the calcium". Says Mom.

Blech - say I.

And I'm not a vegitarian why?

Sounds right to me. Frankly, when you remove all the bones, a chicken can easily fit in there.

I almost bought one of these at Albertsons a couple of weeks ago!
We've canned a hamburger, cooked bacon, and now a whole chicken!
What can't be canned?

They used to sell these at the discount poverty grocery store before it went out of business. I never had the courage to buy one and peek in the can. I can only imagine it tastes somewhere as horrid as canned ham. Ham, that tastes like a can.

Both belong on a list of bomb shelter quality food.

So many things wrong with this picture. Not the least of which is the price...$6.19 for a whole chicken? A 50 oz. whole fresh chicken runs around $4.00 in the local supermarket around here. I'm not sure the extra $2.19 to have it stuffed into a can can be considered "added value."

@Craig: But a fresh chicken sure goes bad fast when you don't refridgerate/freeze it. If I was preparing a Y2K bunker right now, I would probably buy one or two just to add some meat to the diet (spam does NOT count as meat).

@Craig: I was thinking the same thing. I can pick up a hot rotisserie chicken any day for $5-6 bucks at a number of grocery stores.

Nasty.

Is is "broth". I was in an Asian grocer and saw this on the shelf. Could not resist taking a picture. And no...I am not going to open one...blech!

This...is...AWESOME!

I wonder if it tastes like a tin can or like hormones and chicken poop.

My experience with canned chicken? Quite similar in flavor and texture to canned tuna. Seriously.

We all laugh, until the apocalypse comes. Then we break down the door of the people with all the canned chicken.

That's why I'm fervently stockpiling battering rams rather than food.

I like to think ahead.

I bought one of those as a joke a couple of years back, and put it on the shelf in my apartment building's laundry room where everybody keeps their detergents.

One day we took it and opened it up - what was inside was kind of a smallish chicken, skinned and boiled, and packed in brine. I would estimate the brine probably accounted for 30% of the can's contents.

It tasted like.......(drumroll)....salty chicken. The texture was very mushy, not unlike canned tuna (thanks Applekid, that is spot on). The chicken still had most of its fat on there.

I bought it for the shock value, but the more I think about this fact the weirder it is. Why is it that we as Americans are so far removed from our food? I mean, there's nothing worse about a canned chicken than a can of tuna fish, and there's nothing worse about that than a can of sardines. It is strange to me that we hate being reminded that our food actually comes from animals, and that we demand the abstraction of a pre-cut chicken breast or steak.

the question is, would you use the battering ram on people with Spam? I still have a can of Spam lite that a buddy bought for me as a joke back in 2000. I intend to keep it until I retire or until I'm around 60ish and see how it looks... then feed it to someone who doesn't suspect a thing.

@crazyasianman: This is exactly my point. What makes Spam inherently better or worse than cold cut bologna? It's essentially the same product, except one is packed with nitrates in a can and the other isn't.

What makes us so willing to turn up our noses at perfectly good food? Maybe it would be better with pomegranate juice on it, right?

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@crazyasianman: Desperate times call for desperate measures.

I ate spam as I kid, I can do it again. Right before I go back to hunting and gathering. :)

@SkokieGuy:
When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to fight over those canned salmon bones. GOOD EATIN'!

Canned whole chicken (at least the Sweet Sue brand) has been available for decades. It's nothing special or disgusting; it's just a boiled chicken in broth. Same sort of thing you'd do if you were making chicken noodle from scratch.

@Applekid: I would totally expect that to be honest. Canned chicken, tuna and salmon are all about the same to me.

These things are disgusting. More like chicken jello in a can. Out of boredom i tossed one off the roof of a four story building. It hit the ground like a water balloon, leaving a greasy circular stain about 10 feet in diameter.

I hope nobody slipped in it.

A whole canned chicken for $6.19? Its cheaper to buy a fresh whole chicken around here in Chicago, about $3.

Also, I feed canned chicken to my dog. I've tried this canned chicken, and its disgusting. I couldnt help it, the artificial dies made it look tender and juicy. Eating it was like water-soaked cardboard.

Weird. I have an almost identical photo in my Flickr photostream (it's not the same one, though). Mine was taken at an Albertson's in Las Vegas.

someone needs to make canned water soaked cardboard now, which will, presumably, taste like chicken.

So, one thing I learned from the Consumerist today: They have canned version of EVERYTHING! Amazing!