Chicken tastes supreme after 50 years in a tin

[Haymarket]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ick08.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/08/ixhome.html

Mrs Haymarket

 

[dberszerker]

Good info

 

[okie medicvet]

I don't think I would have been that 'brave' unless starving..especially with it being chicken and all..maybe if it was a fruit or vegetable or something..but a meat based product..especially chicken..I don't know..would just be leery of it..

 

[watchin]

It was just yesterday that he ate it. Maybe they should have waited a few more days before they announced that he didn't get poisoned.

 

[OldMan]

Also...in general, for something that old....what is the possiblility of a soldered can...and the lead leaching into the food?


OldMan

 

[vessie]

All I can say it that this picture say's it all... goto http://www.nworbcire.com/NotChicken.jpg V

 

[Meggsie]

All I can say it that this picture say's it all... goto http://www.nworbcire.com/NotChicken.jpg V

Dangit! where's that cat gone to now?

 

[vessie]

Meggsie,

What's that I hear? Is that Mushu Pork purring on my fork? V

 

[jlee]

Also...in general, for something that old....what is the possiblility of a soldered can...and the lead leaching into the food?

My father was a canmaker. I believe they were all soldered at that time.

Another consideration is the level of soldering technology: even in the 70's we sometimes saw imported cans with lumps of solder on the inside of the can.

The pH level of the contents might make a difference in how much lead leaches into the contents.

 

[Haymarket]

It was just yesterday that he ate it. Maybe they should have waited a few more days before they announced that he didn't get poisoned.

Although this article from yesterday does not give the date he actually ate it except to say that it was on his golden wedding anniversary and that he commented on the tastiness the day before the story ran, the separate editorial comment (Related Links, Leader: Cock of the walk) says he ate it "the other day" and "has suffered no ill effects" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/08/dl0803.xml.

Mrs Haymarket