Man Eats 50-Year-Old Chicken to Honor His Bride

After 50 years of marriage, this guy sure knows how to make a lady feel special.

A United Kingdom man celebrated his golden wedding anniversary not by bestowing his bride with jewelry or a night out on the town, but by eating a 50-year-old tin of chicken.

The BBC reports that Les and Beryl Lailey received the chicken as a wedding gift in 1956. The Buxted Chicken tin remained in their pantry through several moves until the couple celebrated 50 years together this month.

"We kept it safe, and I always said 'on my 50th wedding anniversary I'm going to eat that chicken' -- so I did," Lailey said.

Lailey explains that when the couple first wed, they had very little money, so they "did their own buffet."

"We got a hamper as a present and included in it was this whole chicken in a tin. We didn't use it and packed it away and kept it," Lailey said.

Les Lailey, he of the iron stomach, hero of those who stand defiantly in the face of the threat of food poisoning, says he has not felt ill since eating the chicken.