**A Descent into Apocalyptic Cooking: A Journey with Canned Goods**

As I sat down to cook, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. The ingredients seemed...unusual. And then it hit me - we were cooking with canned goods. Yes, you read that right. Canned bread, canned chicken, and a block of cheese. It was like a culinary adventure into a post-apocalyptic world.

The first step was to unstick the loaf of bread from its can. I carefully inserted a knife and gently pushed it out. "Gently push loaf," I muttered to myself, trying to convey the delicate nature of the task. And then, in a burst of insight, I realized that the problem wasn't just with the bread, but with the chicken too. It was more like boiled chicken than anything else.

As I tried to cut two slices of brown bread, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation. The density seemed almost palpable, and the moisture level was off the charts. But I persisted, cutting out two slices and setting them aside for now. Next up was the chicken. I carefully pulled it out of its can and...wow. It was salty. Very salty.

I decided to try the chicken first because it was hot and seemed like the best place to start. Taking a tentative bite, I was greeted by a flavor that was eerily reminiscent of canned chicken broth. "It tastes just like canned chicken broth," I mused aloud, trying to make sense of this strange culinary phenomenon.

But despite its unappealing taste, the chicken was tender and juicy. And when I bit into it again, I realized that it had a certain kind of metallic tinned flavor to it. It was...interesting, to say the least. Still, the texture was off. The skin was overcooked and lacking in that all-important crispy quality.

Moving on to the cheese, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. After all, who doesn't love a good block of cheddar? But as I unwrapped it and took my first bite...wow. This was no ordinary cheese. It was sharp and rich, with just the right amount of creaminess.

And then, in a stroke of genius (or madness, depending on one's perspective), I decided to combine the cheese with the molasses bread. The result? Absolutely sublime. The sweetness of the bread paired perfectly with the savory flavor of the cheese, creating a taste experience that was truly greater than the sum of its parts.

As we sat down to enjoy our apocalyptic meal, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction. Despite the initial reservations and the occasional bout of culinary horror, it had all come together in the end. And as for the chicken? Well, let's just say that it was an acquired taste.

**Conclusion**

As we finished our meal and cleared the table, I couldn't help but wonder what other culinary adventures lay ahead. Would we be able to find a way to make canned goods truly enjoyable? Or would we remain forever stuck in this post-apocalyptic purgatory of flavors?

One thing was certain: cooking with canned goods had been an experience unlike any other. And as for me, well...I'm just glad I made it out alive.

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So it says to reheat this in a475 degree oven for 10 to 15 minutes. I believe you can still find this on supermarket shelves in parts of the country --but not anywhere where I live -- so I purchased this on the internet.And this was $27, so very expensive whole chicken,but it's in a can and presumably you could keep it for quite a long time.Not indefinitely, but quite a long time.So let's go ahead and open this.Oof!Ooh, I'm getting that canned- and chicken-broth-canned chicken smell. It's not too pleasant. All right. Wowzers....Okay, so there looks like there's some headspace in there;definitely some congealed fat there; andit looks a little gelatinous. Alrighty. So let's go ahead and dump our chicken out.Oh boy here we go. Here it is.Oh that poor, sad chicken. Okay.Oh wow, that is a pretty sad looking whole chicken. Yes, it is whole, but not really.Oh man!So here's the whole chicken it is indeed a whole chicken, although it's pretty disintegratedI'm gonna do as instruct it and place this in a475 degree oven and bake it for 10 to 15 minutesSo while the chicken is baking, let me tell you a little bit more about expressvpnSo what is a VPN the VPN stands for a Virtual Private Network?And basically it creates a secure connection between your computer and the internetso if you're at all like me and you use a public Wi-Fi system, for exampleIf I'm editing and I'm in a cafe, and the connection is not secureSo once I'm connected to express VPN, all of my data is encryptedSo I don't have to worry about passwords or other sensitive information being interceptedSo I love the peace of mind that comes with having the security that comes with the VPNSo expressvpn is really easy to use and easy to connect to and it offers the fastest and most consistent speed without any internetRestrictions so expressvpn works out to be about seven dollars a month and they offer a 30-day money-back guaranteeSo take back your internet privacy today and find out how you can get three months free by clicking the link in the description headOver to expressvpn dot-com slash any made and take back your privacy with expressvpnAlright next we're gonna open our can of cheese now this is cougar gold and this comes from Washington State UniversityNow look at the size of this cheese, isn't this incredible?Now Washington State University has been making this cheese since the 40s and this is their flagship cheeseI also purchased these two the natural cheddar and the natural VikingI think I'm going to do this in a separate taste testing videoSo this has been produced since the 1940s when Washington State University received funding from the US government and the American can companyTo develop a way to preserve cheese in a tinSo this means the preservation came before plastic was invented and it was seen as an improvement to wax because it didn't crack like waxSo if it kept unrefrigerated and the tin is not punctured in any way this cheese can last indefinitelyIn fact, the cheese flavors will improve you'll have more amino acid crystals for being formed and the flavors will be even betterI'm super excited to taste this because I've heard a rave reviews ofSo this is one pound and fourteen ounces of cheese, it's not inexpensive one wheel of cheese was twenty-two dollarsLook at that that looks gorgeous. It smells great to get the cheese outDah-dah-dah, isn't that a great tin? I love this tinAnd there is our wheel of cheeseIt is huge I'm gonna slice a couple pieces of cheese off of there. I'm a handy dandy cheese plain. I love this thingSo to go with the cheeseLet's have some bread. And this is B & M's brown bread original B and M stands for Burnham and Morel nowThis is a very regional thing. I live in New England in Rhode Island, and this bread can be found in most grocery storesI had never seen this before when I lived in California because this historically wasn't really eaten in, CaliforniaThis brown bread is eaten. Usually with baked beans Boston baked beans and it is a darkslightly molasses bread but it comes in a can and because it comes in a can you can just keep it in your pantry andYou've got bread whenever you want it. There's a nice littleVacuum hissed thereHear thatSo to open you're supposed to open both sides of the canJust gonna remove the top push it out push it outWhere does it come out better this way this way?Doesn't want to come out use my knifeGently push loafOut of one end with a spoon. What do you mean? Push it out with a spoon? No. No, I'm feeling what you're saying. OkaySo I'm gonna unstick it with a knifeGently press it out ridiculous, right? I don't remember it being this hard last timeOkay, there we go, ohWow that was a lot harder than I expected. So let's cut a slice of thatThere's the beautiful brown bread it's pretty dense but very moistIt smells a bit of molasses to cut two slices of brown breadSo we baked this chicken, but it's more like a kind of boiled chickenAll the jelly bits just kind of dissolved into kind of a soup here andLet's serve up some of this chicken. I am a dark girl. So I'm gonna put some of that on my plateAll righty, so there is our apocalyptic dinnerAlrighty so I'm gonna try the chicken first because that's nice and hot and here we go get that lucky mossMmmExcuse me while I pull bones out of my mouthHmmThat was part of the wing. I thought that might be some meat but let's try that againHey, that was basically very salty very softchicken skinAlrighty, let's try that. That's uh me. Here we goYeah, first of all, it's very very very salty and very well cookedSo the chicken is quite tender, but very salty. It tastes just like canned chicken brothIt does have a kind of metallic tinned flavor to the chicken, but it is very very tenderAnd of course juicy because it's been sitting in chicken broth all this timeBut it doesn't really have a very great texture because it's so overcooked and I'm really missing the carmelizationThere's no crispy skinNo, those kind of meillard effect little bits happening here because this is basically a boiled whole chickenBut post-apocalypse. I'm sure this would be absolutely incredibleYou know, let's go ahead and try our canned breadIt has a very strong flavor of molasses, there's a slight sweetness to it andThe texture of it is very moist. It's quite intense, but it is moistNot at all dry and it's a very unique style of bread don't imagine sandwich bread because this is nothing like itIt's rather than being yeasty. This is more akin to say a quick bread like banana bread or aScone, I think the leavening in this is baking sodaso it has a slightly different texture but quite good coming out of a can andSitting in your pantry for how many years this would be goldenMm-hmm. Now, let's try the cheese the one I've been waiting for. Let's give this a goMmm, oh my that is excellentMmm that is a delicious sharp cheddar cheeseReally nice mouthfeel not overly crumbly it still got a little bit of that kind of silky richness in terms of textureBut dry nice sharp cheddar a flavor, but not too much of a biteYou don't have any of those amino acid crystals formed yet. But the flavor is very intense. It has a great nuttiness. This isfantasticMm-hmm aLittle bit of sweetness in there as well delicious now, I'm gonna have it on my breadMm-hmmIt surprisingly actually goes really well with the molasses bread the rich dairy creaminess and the nuttiness goes really well with the sweetnessLet's just go ahead and make it an open-faced sandwich and add some chicken to thatDefinitely improvement on the chicken as well because the chicken is so salty and the bread is slightly sweet.It really bounces out all that sodium.So yeah,I think that's the best choice to take the chicken,place it on the bread, have a little cheese -- or omit the cheese if you're gonna have the chicken because the cheese is salty.But yeah, altogether not bad. 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