Nostalgic Recipe for the Eldergays - Chicken a La King (2024)

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I've never tasted Chicken à la King but it looks delicious.

It's one of my favorites from Stouffer's. I used to have it in Banquet boil-in-bags when I was a kid.

School lunch, Thursdays. I liked it.

You know Swanson makes canned chicken a la king, right? Amazon it.

^ Yeah, it's made in Russia by people who care 🙄

Never had the stuff and it's probably good but the photo makes it look like somebody vomited lunch.

Prefer it over white rice.

Chicken lacking flavor.

We had this at the school cafeteria

I think we used to call it sh*t on a shingle. Is that the same thing? Put over a slice of toast?

^ I think that's chipped beef

Yep, you're right. Thanks R13.

R10, made properly, it's pretty good. It's basically chicken pot pie without the pie.

It looks like cat puke.

Yuck.

Kinda looks like chicken pot pie.

How soon we forget.

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I miss the strumpet niece troll.

R21 An absolute masterpiece!

Nice! Mom made it for my dad and I growing up.

Vomit on toast.

As kids we called it “bum barf”

Chicken A La King was only good out of a Banquet bag you boil.

Cleanup in aisle 9.

I used to have it as a kid, served over mashed potatoes.

My mother always used pastry shells when she was out of ideas, turkey curry, seafood newburg, etc., probably the reason I like anything in those things to this day.

I like the idea of chicken á la king, but it usually has pimientos, which I detest.

^ I don't like them either, so you use some chopped red pepper instead

Funny. Last night I was thinking of making a pot pie by getting a Costco rotisserie chicken, making a cream gravy with the drippings. Adding some frozen peas and carrots that is sold out there. They come diced. Cut up the chicken into small cubes or chunks, mix that in, pour the whole thing into a Marie Calendar pie shell with a pastry top and baking it. Was surprised to see this here.

^ Mmm, pot pies are so good especially if it's cold out

R32 I love pimentos but I challenge you to find them. Because I am a lazy whor* I do all my grocery shopping through Instacart. I add a little jar of pimentos every single time, and Instacart shows "plenty in stock" but they are perpetually out of stock.

Stouffer's used to make a frozen Lobster Newburg (boil in a bag) which we ate over those pastry shells. Very rich and surprisingly delicious for a frozen dinner.

R39 Stouffer's used to make a Noodles Romanoff that I would commit crimes to eat again. There are copycat recipes online, but none of them come close to the original. It was a f*cking masterpiece. Every Stouffer's social media account is continually bombarded with requests to just make this f*cking great thing again, but for reasons we will never know, they refuse.

^ Stouffer's used to make a frozen Welsh Rarebit that was out of this world. I would have it at least a couple of times a month, but like everything Stouffer's used to make that was good it was discontinued ☹️

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Eldergays should NOT be eating this!

Vintage (1933) recipe for you.

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