While most associate canned food with other grocery store convenience items like frozen foods and instant foods that came into the mainstream in the mid-20 century, if you look past traditional "canned" foods in glass jars (think Mason jars), you'll find that At that time, a French chef, Nicolas Appert, was experimenting with packing foods into tin cans and then soldering the tin cans shut. He fine-tuned the process, canned foods grew in popularity, and it all eventually led to the double-seam cans we see today. Canned foods are cheap, long-lasting, versatile, and delicious (even if ).
Some canned foods have stood the test of time — one of the first foods that Appert canned was peas. Others have fallen in and out of vogue, and here are some of the weirdest and wildest canned foods that people have stopped eating. Whole chickens When you think of a whole chicken dinner, you probably imagine a perfectly cooked bird covered in a golden-brown, crinkling, shiny skin or something similar snagged from the .
Whatever you think of, you probably don't think of a pale, worse-for-wear bird that resembles a raw chicken at best and a naked mole rat at worst. However, this is what you get when you open up one of the large cans that contain a whole chicken. That's right — someone had the idea to take an entire chicken and stuff it into a can.
Canned chicken has been around for a while. Hormel sold this product in the mid-20 century. Other suggested uses included soups and gravies.
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