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.

Welp, Idk how to gif

It looks nasty but I bet you that "gelatin" actually makes for some fantastic stock

ITT people who don't make their own food

what would be the best temperature for fucking this?

I want to see a prochef use this for a recipe.

My best guess use would be to use it for a stock and make a soup or chili. Might work any application poached chicken is needed.

LOOK AT IT

The Matrix for chickens

If someone is going camping, or to a cabin with limited or no electricity, this is a convenient way to store chicken. Preppers also buy this stuff.

Good fucking God, what have we become?!

Your scientists were so preoccupied with canned chicken, they didn't stop to think if they should chicken.

One time I shot one of these with a 454 casull revolver and it created a 20 foot wide mushroom cloud of protein