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A Whole Chicken In A Can: YUMMO!
Published on: April 29, 2009 – 1:18 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Tracy from I Hate My Message Board is a very, very brave woman. You see, not only did she purchase one of Sweet Sue’s Canned Whole Chickens, but she actually cooked it… and ate some of it. And luckily for all of us less brave souls, she photographed the entire process.
I don’t know about you guys, but I wouldn’t eat anything that looked like forgotten leftovers from the “Neo Being Birthed In The Matrix” scene… though I do fully expect to see Sandra Lee pouring one of these into a slow cooker on an episode of Semi-Homemade. Bon appetit!
15 minutes at 475 degrees later… voila!
(Thanks to Tracy for the images. She wants the world to know she did not feed this crap to her kids!)
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That is one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen. It’s so slimy!!!!
where can i buy sweet sues whole canned chicken?
Halloween came early in your kitchen this year, eh Tracy?
It looks… raw. How the hell did “Sweet Sue” cram that into a can?!
Makes me never want to eat chicken again.
Sweet Sue? More like SWEET JESUS, SUE, WHYYYYY
OMG, it looks like Jon Voight after he got spit up by the snake in Anaconda!
On closer inspection, the chicken appears to be . . . hairy. Which begs the question, was it in the process of evolving when it was crammed into the can with a cupful of its own intestinal fluids?
That third picture of the chicken emerging from the can is making me nauseous. It also makes me think of a less gory version of that scene from Alien.
EEWWWWWW!! (gag) I expect (cough) to see this (rrrrr) product on Homemade/Sandra Lee (gack gack) any day now…..uh-oh…..blllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhkkkkkkkk
With all that slime it appears the can is giving birth to it, and it seems to be lying in a pool of its own afterbirth. Ewwwwwwww. There is nothing delicious-looking about that. And why do they use the word delicious so many times on the can? Who are they trying to convince? This is beyond disgusting.
Oh my goodness…they can just about anything these days.
I’ve never even heard of that or seen that before. Weird and truly nauseating.
I just noticed that one of the instructions on the can says “chill before opening”. Do they mean the can of chicken or “chill out, dude, cause this is gross”.
Good god! This could be a good demo to curb teen pregnancy.
Is it organic free range chicken ?
I actually tried it myself.
First, its a very small chicken w/ very little meat (how else could they cram it into a can). Second, it smells like nothing I have ever smelled before. The only description is “really old soup,” you find in the back of your fridge that you’re just not sure is still good, so you hand it to your dog and he sniffs it and backs up.
Next, it disintegrates after you cook it. Following the instructions, I took the “juice” and made a gravy.
Scraping up some meat, what little there is, with the gravy, and PUT IT IN MY MOUTH.
It sort of tastes like chicken & gravy, sort of. I wouldn’t turn it down if I was starving, but I can say this, I will never eat another one unless I was starving.
-and I mean, zombie brain eating starving…
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Are you people daft? Its a “canned” chicken, like all “canned” goods, its heated in the can. It clearly says on the can…fully cooked.
Of course if you cook it again it will fall apart. What did you expect? All you need to do is heat it up. Sissies.
kinda what I would imagine a late term abortion would look like
this crap is real? i thought it was a joke !
Ok, this is so SO disturbing! I’ve never seen such an abomination! ROFLMBO!!!!! I wonder if Sweet Sue ever tried any of her experiments, uh, canned goods.
I got one at Big Lots. It was cheap, and easy to pull off all the meat. Tasted just fine in a gumbo.
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when we were children and had little money that there chicken tasted pretty good. the gov’t. gave it out. makes a great chix salad. better than a spaghetti sauce sandwich……
I’ve been eating whole chicken in a can since I was a kid. You don,t have to cook it in the oven, you can eat it straight out of the can. We used to have it for lunch when we where out working the fields. What a great taste and so moist.(Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.)
Better stock up on this, before the apocalypse.
A friend gave me one of those once. As a present. I stopped being friends with him after that.
That’s almost as bad as “canned fish” from Russia. Better watch out…in Russia, canned fish eats you:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=763
I will have nightmares tonight, I’m sure of it!
Hahaha at the “chill” comment!
In #3 Tracy’s son (I’m assuming that’s who he is :-p) looks a little amazed/scared. I can only imagine the look in his eyes, of course.
Yeah, you guys are wimps.
It’s just cooked chicken put into a can.
The can is sterile, the cooked chicken is sterile, the “slime” that’s so “gross” is just grease/fat.
As long as it’s not too old, there’s nothing to be grossed out about.
“Tastes like chicken”… yeah right.
Looks like page 74 from my old pathology text book. I bet it’s loaded with salt… Insta-CHF.
Well she should have fed it to her kids, otherwise she shouldn’t have bought it. It IS (was) a chicken after all, and it died for nothing if you just buy it so you can take pictures and throw it away. Eat that shit. EAT IT.
lol it looks the same cooked as it does right out of the can! hahahaha
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I keep a canned chicken as part of my emergency kit in the trunk of my car. No joke. I mean it may look nasty, but if your car dies in the middle of nowhere and you’ve gotta eat, this will keep you and whoever is with you from starving for a night.
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I’d eat It
I don’t really have words to describe this.
Canned foods that should go bad scare me.
Fuc&*ed up beyond belief.
The things “we” do to the animals of this planet never ceases to amaze (and disgust) me. This was once a living, sentient animal…
Obscene.
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Wow, that is freakin scary dude!
What’s the big deal? Grandma used to jar whole chickens for the winter. Had a chicken coop and pig sty out back. A huge vegetable garden behind that. Mom was one of nine children.
Gigwave, times have changed. My grandmother did a lot of things too in her day, but this isn’t 1920 anymore. This….. is disgusting.
It reminds me of Neo in The Matrix
It looks pretty much like chicken that has been slow-baked. I’d eat it.
I’d eat it.
Wait, you won’t feed your kids this, but you’ll feed them McDonalds?
buh-GAWK!
I think the last photo looks really tasty. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy this product. It looks far superior to anything my girl Lisa has ever knocked up in the kitchen. Or anywhere else for that matter.
seen a chicken lay an egg but never a can lay a chicken… ugh thats gross
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Oh, that looks really, really bad.
That’s one of the nastiest things I’ve ever seen that was intended for human consumption. If I were starving, I’d eat the can before I ate that slimy mess. Some people will eat anything, even if it looks like an unborn alien.
That’s just fowl.
Ewwwww. That totally put me off my lunch.
OMG, I think it was dead long long before they put it in there.
Not only that, is the name incorporating Sue?.. Like in ‘you should sue them’?
This would seriously confuse Jessica Simpson if she saw this.
Lol, from the cradle to the grave – or should I say from the ‘Cage’ to the ‘Tin’ – and its still fluffy!!! :P
Poor chicken to have lived a life only to end up w/ such a fate. What a waste of time, resources and life for a bunch of un-nourishing consumable(?) crap.
That looks like a tasty and nutritious meal for my kids and me.
Thanks Tracey for the wonderful and quick idea!
These chickens are very good. Put one in a kettle, add some water and chicken bullion or broth, cook some egg noodles. Instant chicken soup.
Even if I wasn’t vegetarian, I still wouldn’t eat this!
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I’ve eaten Balut before ( a fully formed duck embryo that you eat the head, feathers, etc all at once) and i have to say… even after that…i still wouldn’t eat this…
That is disgusting. At first I thought it was a fake, that whole chicken just meant lots of chicken. Eww! Gross.
It looks like something that fell out of the Sphinx’s nose !
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I hope that all these “ooo, icky-poo!!” comments are just a prank to make it seem like this blog is read solely by phobic imbeciles, because the alternative is very depressing. C’mon people – it’s chicken, it’s in a can, properly processed and perfectly edible. Sheesh!
Finally, something that makes “hamburger in a can” look delicious.
It looks a bit unappetizing coming out of the can, but there isn’t anything gross about it.
If you had ever made fresh chicken stock, you’d know that it tends to gelatinize and look like slime when it’s cold, the canning process cooks the chicken, and probably makes a pretty decent chicken stock around it at the same time.
If you broiled it for a bit to get it looking nice and browned, it would probably taste no different than any other slow cooked chicken.
Looks like a quick way to commit “suicide in a “can” to me!
Just looks like a poached whole chicken to me, cooled in its juices till its jelled. Nothing so scary about that – what’s the fuss???
Would make a great chicken noodle soup, or a pilaf, or gumbo. Wusses :P
When the apocalypse comes and there is no fresh meat, these here babies will be pure gold.
Also, it’s just chicken fat.
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What’s the problem? I’d eat it!
I can’t believe you got 87 comments on this. Yeah it looks gross, but so does Spam and Vienna Sausages. It comes down to, if you are hungry, you will eat them no matter how gross they look.
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Oh. My. God.
Thanks for making me gag!
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OMG. That is the most horrifying thing ever.
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back of label suggests: “. . .or serve cold just as chicken comes from the can”.
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no thanks.
that shot of ‘chicken’ being liberated from can should send a warning to all expectant fathers out there…stay in the damn waiting room for gods sake…..although they do say babies taste like chicken, dont they?
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I just feel horrible for the poor chicken
Hahaha, nice Alex, (sweet jesus sue why)… but aye, this is truly ghastly. Kind of what a cow baby would look like being born i imagine. slimey and gross. .. i’m aware its called “calf” i prefer cow baby.
America, lol
yum yum in my tum!
I’d buy THAT for a dollar!!
The canned chicken is not new.My oldest is 41 years old.I use to buy that can of chicken when my kids were growing up.It is just cooked chicken put into a can.The slimy stuf is the same stuff you get when you cook a turkey for holidays and put it in the fridge.The liquid around it gels.You make gravy out of it.How often do you really cook to not know this?We did not have the beautiful FROZEN FOODS that we have now.That can of chicken was what a Mom had for a FAST food to fix a fast dinner when we had to continue working when we got home from work.See, most women have 2 or more jobs.Most Moms have more than 2 jobs 24/7. When you have a new marriage or a new marriage and a new family and the $ is tight, you work with what you have in your cupboards, freezer and fridge.THAT is what Sandra Lee does.The creativity is great, but the decorating is not necessary for every day.That can go to once a month with a them and she can just stick to the creative part with what people have in their homes without having to go to the store.
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hmmm delicious
WHOA! That can just gave birth!…but if someone served this to me I would try it.
Yea I ate this once, It is precooked and I had to eat it cold. Gross, goooy, but tasty. I did have hot sauce. If you take it camping please thow away the SKIN!! Eww
I have used the canned chicken many times and so have many other members of my family and friends. It is wonderful for chicken and noodles, chicken casseroles, etc. The chicken is well cooked, falling off the bone and the broth is very flavorful, not the watered down kind. Yes, the product may look gross but most chickens do when cooked. Don’t let it’s appearance fool you. I just wonder why they took this off the market at grocery stores. It was very convenient for quick meals, much better than the steaks that some people eat rare, talk about gross! Get these back on the grocery store shelves, please!!!!!
I have always wondered what it would look like if a human gave birth to a whole chicken. Well now I know. I think I would rather implode that eat this lazy, desperate slop of inhumanity.
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Uhhhh….I think Sweet Sue sent 10,000 of those to the troops.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
From the comments, it would seem that you have never used canned meat – you’re supposed to warm it up and it is truly delicious.
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I have looked at all kinds of gross stuff over the years, and I think I’m getting more squeamish in my old age, but these pictures of the slime-slathered fowl actually made me a little nauseous. For real. No hyperbole. My stomach actually is a little upset. Wow.
It’s Eraserhead Chicken, it’s man made and it’s new!
Tater’s et a lot of canned chickens in his life, and he thinks you all actin like a bunch of sissies. That chicken been cooked to death — that’s why all that gelatin — some of you called it slime — is in there. Ain’t raw, and it ain’t “gross”. That’s just what happens when you cook something with bones in it and shove it into a can. And you know what? It tastes just like chicken.
Tater Gumfries
I suppose if it was the only alternative to cannibalism. Then again maybe not.
Yes we can!
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Sad. It was a little animal at one time and just went to waste. Should have at least fed it to the dog. It’s a real chicken, so what?
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^^^but for real who the hell would eat chicken from a can …omg thats nasty
Here is a message to everyone squeamish about the gelatin that appears when you cook meat in a can.
1) Give up gummi bears
2) Give up marshmallows
3) Give up gum/altoids/mints
4) Give up pop tarts
5) Give up sunny d
Then come and talk to the canned meat producers!
where did you get this?
I have such a funny story about this I would like to get one as a gag gift where did you find this at?
Oh?? Can that be eaten? Oh my gosh!
i think im gonna puke, that is just nasty
so nasty
Tosh.0 dared a morbidly obese gentleman to eat six of these gems in one sitting. On camera. He did. Cold. Straight from the can. GAG
I’m sure it tastes just fine cooked into something(it’s hard to ruin chicken) if you can get over the visual. After all, people eat processed foods that are far lower down the food chain than a whole chicken, however the preparation happens to leave it visually.
One thing however… this whole “we have it in the fallout shelter”. Newsflash: If you need a fallout shelter that chicken will be your last meal. Do yourself a favour and splurge on some MREs if you’re that worried about some kind of apocolyptic event you actually expect to survive… in a home shelter… with canned chickens.
For people used to this from a time when “it was fast food”… bull. My great grandmother definitely lived in that time, and her version of fast food was killing the chicken and roasting it. I’m not kidding in the slightest either. Hell, people used to hang foul (not chicken granted) and that improves the flavour! Really, canning poultry makes no sense from any, but a financial standpoint…. and I’m not sold on that either. If you’re so poor you need canned chicken, I’d consider raising chickens, or NOT EATING CHICKEN. I’d rather eat rice and beans than that ****.
WHoever manufacture’s these things should be put to death. Sick. Im sure that there are a bunch of sterilants and mercury included to wipe out the % of the population stupid enough to purchase this crap.