Availability of canned chicken in Germany

Can anyone tell me if they sell canned chicken here, like what you use to make quick chicken salad or chicken and rice?

I have seen it in the Russian section of Real and other markets. Other than that, they all have chicken of the sea cans.

Canned chicken...? Luckily, I am pretty sure this doesn´t exist Down Under or have never come across it.

they got canned turkey but its disgusting

You can use frozen chicken pieces, found in bags or boxes in most grocery stores. Usually pre-cooked already, either spiced or plain, breaded or unbreaded, so you can just defrost and do whatever you want with it.

WTF?!?
There are so many places selling freshly roasted chicken at reasonable prices... why not buy that?
Why not buy fresh chicken breasts from a supermarket or butchers?
Chicken is hardly difficult nor so time consuming to grill fresh for a salad or to cook with rice...

You'll be telling us next that the tinned chicken is to go with "boil in the bag" rice :-}

What is this world coming to?!?? <sigh>

Not so many places open when you have a sudden urge on a Sunday ... that's why I keep frozen chicken around. Never seen the canned stuff.

I also keep fresh chicken frozen for emergencies - gotta be better than processed tinned crap :-}

Wow chicken in a can! Never heard of that before. Now I feel like hunting some down just too see what it's like.

Chicken in a can? I have to say "eww" and I've never heard of it before. At the same time I guess tuna comes in a can and some people buy corned beef in a can (another 'eww' in my book) so why not put other animals in a can?

Is it little chopped up cubes or a giant can shaped mess like dog food?

It's a giant can shaped like a chicken, with special tin protrusions for the feathers.

Guess what I found available on the internet?

i just looked and you can get it on amazon.com
here it shows how i thought it'd be. Chunks of chicken in a can (kind of like tuna)

Please, please, please do not invite around me for dinner. Better not invite Gordon Ramsey either.

we used to get canned turkey sliced for school lunches in Midlothian when I was in primary school. I always used to wonder how they managed to get oblong turkeys. Needless to say you needed to douse it with gravy to make it edible.

That makes two of us... I am still vomiting at the thought LOL

You can get fresh chicken in broth in a glass jar. It's Hühnerteile in Brühe or something similar. Not the worst food I've eaten but I also advocate buying some fresh chicken breast, chopping it into small pieces and freezing it. Defrosts quickly and has all the natural juices.

Don't think I'd buy it but if you get tinned tuna, salmon, spam or whatever, why do people think tinned chicken is so odd.

Probably because getting fresh Tuna or Salmon here is unusual, we're a bit far from the sea, whereas fresh chicken, cooked or uncooked is available everywhere. I'm not sure if spam comes in any other form than in a tin!

Delia Smith is now into using canned EVERYTHING. Pathetic little mare used a can of tinned, chopped, fried onions last week on telly. I've never even seen that, not even in Waitrose. She's just trying to use tins for the sake of using tins, to look for a differentiating factor to give her latest TV series some sort of "edge". On that basis, I thought this thread might have been something to do with Delia, but nope, just somebody looking for rubbish food. Oh well.
You can get tinned cat food with chicken in it I think. Try that.

She really annoys me anyway, but never moreso than now with all her tinned shit! WTF?!? She started her career teaching us all to cook and now she is pretty much invalidating everything she taught over the years!

Or maybe she has it right because society is turning into a bunch of lazy bastards anyway... :-}

Chicken in a tin, how horrible.

We tried the German fresh chicken the Excelent brand I think, and it was worse than tinned chicken. We then found that Globus sold the free range French at twice the price but were 10 times as good so that is what we eat and very good they are. Roast at 20 mins per lb plus 20 mins. med/hot oven.

I truly can't believe that such an asinine Q regarding availability of canned chicken has made it this far, truly a statement about expats and how exciting they are.

Worse is that some people are reading and replying to it at 1:00am ;-)

Stick to Polish Sausage HS!

... canned chicken sounds absolutely grotesque to me, being a vegetarian!
I once went out with a guy in Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, who had a frozen chicken factory at the bottom of his garden - the smell was awful!!!
- why not try a nice piece of smoked tofu in your salads??? - it´s healthy, it´s animal-friendly, and it keeps quite well too!
malzeit!!

I can acquire canned chicken quite easily as I have access to an American base. I avoid it, however, and not for Ms Robinson's reasons. It's full of salt, preservatives and other shit that humans shouldn't ingest. Kind of like canned sardines. Come to think of it, the uber veggie, buddah-loving Japanese LOVE sardines on their pizza.

Goddamn Greenpeace Whale-killing pacifists!

I'm a once-a-week veggie meat eater with random samplings of fish and milk and eggs mixed in - I'm a fishasteakalacto if anyone cares

I also kill kittens for fun and sell them to Chinese restaurants in Lappersdorf

I would follow Don Riina's suggestion to gdysinger and just go with tinned cat or dog food. They may even taste better than what you are looking for to be honest.

Being curious, I looked for and found canned chicken at Kaufland on Saturday. It was among those canned Rindsrouladen and spammy things and Kalbsgulasch, just seeing them made my mouth run dry at the thought of the immense amounts of salt in each can.

The "thought" being the operative word - don't think it is required in Germany to put the info about how much salt something contains onto the product. Heinz do it on Baked Beans in England (shitloads of salt and sugar. Seriously shitloads.) but the product they sell here does not. weird. You'd have thought regulaton loving Germany would be on that one like a frisky rabbit onto that cartoon rabbit bird that used to do the caramel advert, and make eating chocolate sound like a cartoon rabbit orgasm.

As Gordon Ramsay might say: What the fucking hell is that shit? A fucking chicken in a can? Fuck off.

I agree with the Don there. Considering Germany squueels when they even think there might be the off chance that there may possibly be a slight but still insignificant and deadly life threatening disease out there to kill em - such as draughts and zecken - they don't seem cock a hoot cared about the amount of salt and its life threatening possibilities in their food. In fact quiet the opposite. Never meet so many people who are only content with a dishes taste when they've shifted half a mountain of the stuff onto their plate.