• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      I looked up the ingredients and apparently it’s only chicken, water, and salt, so it’s gotta be the chicken’s own stock (since it’s fully cooked).

      Looks disgusting I guess but I suppose it’s far healthier than many of the more delicious looking products the food industry churns out every day.

      • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
        0·
        8 months ago

        It looks disgusting cuz it’s canned and cold lol. Whenever I cook with real chicken or even beef and there’s broth leftover, it will turn into slight gelatin due to the collagen in the bones! There is flavor and protein in there. It’ll just liquidify when you heat it up and it’s some seasonings and a pinch of flour away from being gravy too.

        Wild how cooking can get when you start to understand ingredients more

  • shadowspirit@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    Growing up latch key many a canned chicken was turned into chicken salad.

    Tastes better than it looks but that’s not saying much. Would not recommend but if yer hungry dive in.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      who raises chickens, slaughters them, then cans them at home? can y’all attest to these home style claims by Sweet Sue?

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    This is why Americans are the only country that doesn’t get to insult British food.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
      0·
      8 months ago

      American living abroad, food is one of the things I miss the most, and not just classic American foods. But, outside of extremely large metropolises, international options are often lacking in European cities in general.

      • gmtom@lemmy.world
        0·
        8 months ago

        But, outside of extremely large metropolises, international options are often lacking in European cities in general.

        That’s true in America too no? Like from my experience even fairly large towns just have the major fast food brands and not much else, unless they’re on the southern border.

        • aidan@lemmy.world
          0·
          8 months ago

          Not at all, this is just relevant because its one of the types of food I miss the most, but in my city in the US of like 500,000, there were like 5 Ethiopian restaurants. I now live in a European capital city, with millions of people. If I wanted Ethiopian food I’d have to go to another country.

          • gmtom@lemmy.world
            0·
            8 months ago

            Can I ask what city because there only 10 cities in Europe with a population in the multi millions and pretty sure all would have Ethiopian food even if its quite niche.

            And I’m sure I could pick some big cities in the US that are missing certain cuisines that are common in Europe. Like does Charlotte NC or Jacksonville have any Polish restaurants? Or Morocco restaurants? As in my limited experience you’ll be lucky to get a “”“European”“” or “”“Mediterranean”“” resturaunt at best outside of the most major cities with large inmigrsnt populations like LA and New York.

            • aidan@lemmy.world
              0·
              8 months ago

              Prague, I’ve never seen a Polish restaurant here- though I’m sure it exists. And checking Google maps I can find 1 Moroccan restaurant here.

              Also, there is a fair amount of good Polish food, its definitely far better than Czech food. But it’s not at all comparable to Indian, Ethiopian, Chinese, or Korean foods which while they all exist in Prague(except Ethiopian) are generally much worse than in the US, unless you happen to know the basically secret menu items to order that aren’t adapted to the local taste. The one thing I will say is far more abundant for quality than in the US is Vietnamese food here. And German Kebab but if I include fast food then I’ll start ranting about how bad the pizza is here.

              • gmtom@lemmy.world
                0·
                8 months ago

                That explains a lot. Eastern Eruope isn’t nearly as culturally diverse as the west/central…

                much worse than in the US, unless you happen to know the basically secret menu items to order that aren’t adapted to the local taste

                I wonder why the American thinks the restursunts adapted to American tastes are better than the resturaunts adapted to Czech tastes.

        • Donkter@lemmy.world
          0·
          8 months ago

          I think that’s kind of true. There’s no “traditional” restaurants from other countries, but in every small town in America you can have a choice between “Italian” food(both “fancy” restaurants like olive garden and pizza) “Chinese” food, “Mexican” food and the occasional gyro shop, German place or Indian place.

          • gmtom@lemmy.world
            0·
            8 months ago

            Yeah same in Europe for the most part. There are a few places I’ve been that are very rural and traditional, that don’t have that, especially out east or in countries like Italy, but most towns have your typical Chinese, Italian and indian/Greek/Turkish place sending on the specific area.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      0·
      8 months ago

      IDK, my Memphis style ribs and blackened burger with caramelized onions and blue cheese begs to differ.

      But I don’t really know much about British food aside for the jokes about depressing bean dishes and of course the “English breakfast.” Lol

      I literally just ate and I’m making myself hungry again thinking about those ribs…

      • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        0·
        8 months ago

        That’s because you haven’t had the perfect british dish ever created! Chicken tikka masala, the most british dish you could ever find. Beloved by all. Very British. Definitely not from, influenced, or inspired by any other country or its diaspora. Nope…

        Whats wrong with the English breakfast? You definitely didn’t have one you’d be full until dinner time otherwise.

  • beefcat@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    Food, especially fresh food, used to be a lot more expensive when adjusting for inflation. A canned chicken like this doesn’t look super appetizing right out of the can, but it probably tasted OK after you shredded it and put it in a casserole. And it was significantly cheaper than buying a fresh whole roasted chicken, assuming you lived somewhere that fresh whole roasted chickens were even readily available. Food like this became particularly popular during the great depression, and stuck around for decades afterwards.

    Nowadays, between industrialized farming, highly optimized supply chains, and a buttload of government subsidy, fresh food is comparatively cheap. You can get a whole roasted chicken right off the spit for $5-10 at just about any grocery store. So for most people the value proposition of a $3 canned chicken isn’t really there anymore, especially if you don’t have an enormous baby-boom-era sized family to feed.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      Hmm, well using it for chicken soup does make some sense I guess. Might be useful for a pandemic stash.

        • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          8 months ago

          omfg lmaoo im seriously crying from laughter 🤣…hhold up…🤣🤣…

          why would anyone think a recipe clled sticky chicky dump chicken with those four ingredients taste anything but terrible? lol and people where complaining that it tasted like peanut butter spread on chicken!! lmaoo why would it taste like anything else?? it’s literally that with a spoon of soy sauce mixed in! omg im laughing so hard 😆 yet, there was still someone that said that they liked it. imagine what they usually eat to give this 5 stars 🤢

          that recipe has to be a troll. it cant be for real.

          apparently that great depression era style canned chicken is $25, so theyre paying like 5 times more than if they would have used a frozen chicken. i wouldnt trust the decisions of anyone that has seriously tried that recipe out.