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A waitress is holding a steaming pile of food on a tray, while Everett sits at a dining table, a frown on his face. Waitress: We didn’t have any spring chicken, Mr. True, so I brought some boneless canned- Everett punches the tray out of her hands, throwing the contents up onto the ceiling, knocking his chair and table askew in the process. Everett: Take it away!! TAKE IT AWAY!!! Do you think I’m a scavenger? None of it for me! I read the papers, I do!!!

  • @I_Has_A_Hat
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    373 months ago

    Was there something more wrong with canned chicken back in the day? Besides the obvious poor taste?

    • @[email protected]
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      913 months ago

      1906 is the same year The Jungle was published, a story that sparked interest in the quality of the meat industry in America. If your meat was more processed, the worse it would be. Boneless canned chicken is probably just a bunch of meat scraped off the parts nobody wanted to eat, maybe even a few pars from other animals, or humans if there was an accident that day.

      • 🔍🦘🛎
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        113 months ago

        Ok his reaction seems justified now

    • The Pantser
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      543 months ago

      The conflict begins a week earlier when the health department labels 50,000 pounds of canned chicken at the North American company and the A. Booth & Co. as suspicious. The health commissioner does not take long to arrive at a conclusion, noting that when samples were thawed out the smell “was so nauseating it was necessary to drench them with formalin before they could be handled.”

      http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2017/10/october-2-1906-north-american-cold.html?m=1

      • @[email protected]
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        223 months ago

        Fascinating. The manager thought having a bulldog by his desk made him arrest-proof. He also had the cops trapped in an elevator on the way to his office. Truly, the Moriarty of Meatpacking Malfeasance! I’m going to say that if I paid for fresh “spring” (i.e., young, tender birds less than 8 weeks of age) chicken and got canned mystery meat instead, in Upton Sinclair’s world, I would push the food away, too.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Formalin, by the way, is a chemical preservative similar in effect to formaldehyde. They’re both used to preserve and embalm bodies for burial, scientific research, etc.

    • Stern
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      3 months ago

      If I had to guess…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

      Published Feb, 1906.

      However, the novel’s most notable impact at the time was to provoke public outcry over passages exposing health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, which led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act.

  • @Rolando
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    123 months ago

    Nobody should be treated that way, especially people with such an awesome pompadour.

  • @other_cat
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    103 months ago

    TRANSCRIPTION

    A waitress is holding a steaming pile of food on a tray, while Everett sits at a dining table, a frown on his face. Waitress: We didn’t have any spring chicken, Mr. True, So I brought some boneless canned- Everett punches the tray out of her hands, throwing the contents up onto the ceiling, knocking his chair and table askew in the process. Everett: Take it away!! TAKE IT AWAY!!! Do you think I’m a scavenger? None of it for me! I read, the papers, I do!!!

  • @riodoro1
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, it’s her fault. Fuck up her day by making a mess on a ceiling.

    All because mr. fatass here didn’t get his chicken.

    • @NateNate60
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      153 months ago

      Yes, that’s why it’s “Outbursts of Everett True”, not “reasonable reactions of Everett True”. He is an asshole and proud of it.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        May you always get the real chicken you ordered and your steak cooked just right. Tip of the bowler to you.

    • @Lumisal
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      103 months ago

      Read the other comments. During that time, there was a good chance that canned chicken included human fingers, rat shit, rotten chicken, and/or rats and roaches.

      She might not have known about it, but his hyperbolic overreaction isn’t towards not getting fresh chicken, it’s towards paying for fresh chicken and being served possibly literal shit stew.

      Processed meat back then was is a really bad state.