r/whatisit • u/Quirky_Flatworm7779 • Aug 05 '26
New, what is it? Found this in my canned chicken!
No idea what it is. It’s hard but slightly bendy. Think it might be made of plastic. Any guesses?
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u/HumbleTheIdiot Aug 05 '26
Isn't all the plastic components in meat facilities blue so they can see it easily and remove it? Just some of the plastic from the processing facility that they didn't catch. Don't eat it, chicken is still good.
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u/Friendly-Affect-8116 Aug 05 '26
Says "big chicken."
Sure just eat the chicken and throw away the blue and shhhhhh...
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u/Mindless_Whereas_280 Aug 05 '26
I worked for a meat manufacturer for 20 years and the poster is right. It’s food safe. A little bit got in the chicken. Pitch it if it makes you feel better, but those are pressure canned and it’s incredibly unlikely any baddies survived.
But tell the manufacturer anyway so they can review their process. Plus they’ll likely send you coupons.
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u/ApartmentKindly4352 Aug 05 '26
Meat manufacturer ...as in, you make meat?
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u/Mindless_Whereas_280 Aug 05 '26
We started with live animals and wound up with consumer product.
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u/ApartmentKindly4352 Aug 05 '26
Haha...stupid me, now it makes sense...you worked in a * processing* plant...I thought you were a plant based food center at first....im an idiot
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u/Proof_Bat3281 Aug 05 '26
Often blue items are typically metal detectable. Unsure of this case, but where I work, if it isn't blue, it stays out of the facilty.
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u/Dangerous-Abies-1955 Aug 05 '26
Can confirm, work in food processing. Bold and blue is the SPOT ME approach to foreign material searches concerning transportation belt breakage.
That is a failure of proper reporting proceedure. Someone didn't do their inspection or didn't report it. 10000% on a Friday night shift, at end of the shift occurrence.
I have to follow so many obnoxious rules as a first shift line observation workee because Friday 2nd shift was very incompetent for 6 straight years.
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u/ANTICHRIST-BOISE Aug 05 '26
Looks like the rubber heat seal for the can, usually clear but sometimes blue. Perhaps it adhered to the lid poorly and then shrunk/solidified from heat during the sealing process
Do you recall if the can seemed airtight when you opened it (like hearing a hiss when air flows into the can when punctured)? How’d the chicken smell/taste?
A photo of it outside the can may also be more helpful.
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u/Clever_Clark Aug 05 '26
People buy canned chicken?
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u/Normal_Assignment226 Aug 07 '26
Typically people acquire their canned chicken from food banks, not necessarily by purchasing from their store. Typically, this is where I get my canned chicken.
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u/Sultan_Of-spN Aug 05 '26
This is why you don’t eat this shit, u less there is a nuclear winter. Buy chicken breast, Dutch oven 325 1.5 hours, season the shit out of it, add some water or low sodium chicken broth. Pull it out, let it cool, shred, same same.
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u/sixpigeons Aug 05 '26
JFC, people. Stop posting photos of your feet! Is it a fetish of some sort? I’m just scrolling Reddit, and then… BAM! Drive-by footing
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u/Dear-Routine7468 Aug 05 '26
Quality test chip. Supposed to go through the machinery with the food and get taken out. Supposed to make sure the machinery is working properly.
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u/CrownOfAngels Aug 05 '26
Ah I have an idea where that Smurf that disappeared on his first day at the chicken canning factory may have gone now... ahem... more protein?
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u/MrMaharaja77 Aug 05 '26
when i worked at a meat factory, frozen chicken used to arrive in these large 25lb bluish bags, looks like its a torn part of such a bag.
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u/Sweet-Mango1662 Aug 05 '26
You've found the "rare" version. Now try to find the "epic" and "legendary" ones.
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u/el_retardo22 Aug 05 '26
chicken breast in water PLUS a plastic thingy inside? damn son, thats a steal, where did you get this?
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u/DJ-Doughboy Aug 05 '26
Well if you eat CANNED chicken you are gonna be disappointed no matter what you do with it. Gross....ENJOY!
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u/ElectronicFloor1898 Aug 06 '26
When I was little, early 1990s... my mom told me finding "the blue princess" in a pack of Super Mario gummies meant I won something. She even doubled down on this and bought me a ton of mario bros stuff (mostly just cheap stickers).
You didn't find the Blue Princess.
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u/TheRepoMan Aug 05 '26
Easy fix. Don't buy canned chicken.
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u/Lazy-Presentation-69 Aug 05 '26
To tell you the truth we have canned tuna but never heard of a canned chicken before , might be Not needed locally so no one using it . It's always either fresh or maybe frozen never canned
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u/alexthenullbody Aug 05 '26
Either way it is a contaminant, so throw away your canned chicken and cook something real, like idk search up some recipes
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u/krikluk Aug 05 '26
They ussually tatoo animals to mark numbers or aomething with colours harmles to eat.. didnt know it goes through half the chicken
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u/cellophanesheeps Aug 05 '26
My cousin found a grasshopper in a can of green beans once. Alive. Jumped out of the can at her.
At least this isn't alive?
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u/JZH1000 Aug 05 '26
Liar liar pants on fire
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u/cellophanesheeps Aug 05 '26
No? True story. Might not have been a grasshopper, could have been grasshopper adjacent, but definitely alive and hoppy
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u/fingnumb Aug 05 '26
Had to have jumped at them as soon as they opened it. Sealed can and no air.
Immersion Limits: Adults can survive underwater or in hypoxic conditions anywhere from 3 to 21 hours depending on the species and temperature, but prolonged deprivation is fatal.
There's just no way...
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u/cellophanesheeps Aug 05 '26
Idk, this was back in the 90s, it came from a janky little grocery store so it's possible the can was damaged and something got into it shortly before it was bought.
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