You know I remember this like it was yesterday. I'm certain it was College Inn but I emailed them and they responded saying they have never carried a product such as this. It was in a clear jar and your right it was a mostly blue label.

Check the links. Dinty Moore (blue label, owned by Hormel) still makes their Chicken and Noodles. I was pretty sure it was a Hormel product and an absolute favorite of mine as a kid.

I know exactly which "noodles" in a jar you are referring to. I remember it from the 50's & 60's. Yes, it was "College Inn" and the noodles were were soft, wide, and packed with small chicken chunks. This, together with Swanson Chicken ala King, pimentos and bread crumbs, cooked under a broiler, was a dish indescribably savory and satisfying. I too wish the product was still available!!!

I am so glad someone else remembers this. It WAS College Inn. In a tall, glass jar, kind of flat on two sides. Nice thick noodles, chunks of chicken, and not too much broth. My mom always had a few jars in the cabinet. I really miss it, and wish it was still available!!! College Inn -- c'mon -- this was the best. I'd buy a case right now. :)

I loved college in Chicken and noodles. It was the best noodle soup in the entire world. I was so sad when they stopped making it in the late 1970's. It has such strong memories associated with family warmth from nights when my dad worked late and my mom let my brother and I eat what we wanted. My brother had Kraft dinner and I had College Inn.

During the 50's and 60's we had it a lot for lunch when I was a child. I don't know why they stopped making it. I've tried to find a recipe so I could make it myself...but I can't get it the way I remembered it.

Oh..... I was hoping I could get some still. My sisters 50th birthday is coming up and she loved it as much as I did!!! We've discussed how GREAT it was. Thought I'd buy her a case for the BIG 50 !!!! Is tyhere anywhere to get it?

I too remember, with salivating admiration, College Inn Chicken & Noodles, in a tall clear glass jar, close to 20-24 ounces as I recall, made a very satisfying one-dish meal, perfectly suited for heating with the microwave ovens then coming into vogue. Don't remember much about the label although the present-day "College Inn" label does seem familiar. I am awaiting a response I sent to their web site (collegeinn dot com) but am not hopeful that any miracles will happen. May call also (eight hundred fife fife two seven six eight four.)

Has anyone tried a recipe for College Inn Chicken and Noodles and even come close? That was the BEST noodle soup in the world and I still crave it even though I haven't had it in decades. I would make it at home if it took all day. I miss it.

I contacted College Inn a few years ago and received the apologetic response that they no longer make the product. Yes,,It was definitely College Inn. Oh how I remember coming home for lunch as a young child and having those great noodles.

I used to eat this chicken and noodles and crave it every so often. I would butter some bread and serve it over the bread. It was scrumptious. Such a simple dish. I can still hear the lid popping when you opened it. I would buy a case too! Come on College Inn, take a hint. I am so glad that there are others out there who remember and loved it like I did! Those were the days.

I was just asking my coworkers if they remember the chicken and noodles in a jar.My favorite as a kid!! I am 40 years old and I STILL crave tem. College Inn should at least try bringing them back at least as a promotion and see how they sell.

safeway makes a soup similiar to the wonderful colleg inn soup that we all miss. the safewy soup comes in a plastic container as a fresh soup.

I was just asking my husband if he remembered having College Inn chicken and noodles in a jar. When I came home for lunch in high school, Mom would have that ready for me. It was quick to fix and filling. No microwaves in the early 60's.

College Inn Chicken and Noodles was the best chicken soup even made. My mom would send this with me in a thermos to school in the 60's. It became harder and harder to find as the years went by and disappeared by 1980, I believe when the original company was sold. It all came out of the old Sherman House hotel in Chicago which had a restaurant called College Inn. Chef Joe Colton gave us many dishes that are now standards like Chicken ala King. I would like a recipe for his chicken and noodles. Using the college inn broth, I have tried to reproduce the flavor, to no avail. It was the noodles. They were amazing.

I didn't know about College Inn Chicken & Noodle until my late twenties...but when I did I couldn't believe there was such a thing! My parents were pretty stupid when it came to food. It really was great and I wish it was still made. Maybe if enough people request it they'd bring it back like they did hard-tack on the east coast.

I also remember College Inn Chicken and Noodles. The noodles were thick and the broth was almost (but not quite) gelatinous. The chicken was always choice cut. No fat oe skin. The lid was golden metallic and was pressed or popped onto a six sided, flat clear glass jar. We would buy it every week in the early sixties. It was wonderful!

Does anyone know where or if they are still making them ? They were the best !!!!

College Inn please bring back the chicken and noodles!! It was so good.

Nalley makes a Noodles and Chicken Meal that tastes very much like I remember the College Inn soup. Unfortunately, my local store no longer carries it. Does anyone know of someplace that carries it.

I used to manage Safeway stores, in the 60s, and would display 250 cases at a time, selling for 29 cents! It was great tasting and very well priced! I to have been looking for it, but found it no longer being produced!

I just made the wife and I some chicken a la king and I thought of these. I figured College Inn. What a great product it was back then. My older sisters and I would have it often, College Inn might be missing out on a gold mine here. ;-)

It was College Inn, glass jar, blue label. It was delicious. Looking for a recipe to make myself, but none look exactly right.

I remember sitting in my girl friend's mother's little apartment kitchen. She prepared a jar of College Inn Chicken and Noodles and since we were both very hungry from our sexual romp she was frying a couple of pork chops in addition. I distinctly remember that meal. As we ate "In the Year 2525" played on the radio.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic The year was 1969 and that might have been the last time I had that College Inn product. Good memories.

What I remember is exactly what you are all describing (this would have been around 1947-54), but the brand name I remember was Lydon's, not College Inn. I loved them.

Chicken and Noodles in a clear tall glass jar. A lot of noodles and chicken and little broth. I remember having it when we went camping in the 1960s. Loved it!

I still have a complete chicken in a jar. It cost 12/6d

Does anyone out there have an old jar this chicken and noodles came in-maybe used to store nuts and bolts or whatever-one that may have the label attached? Check your garages!! This has been driving my sister and I crazy for years! We seem to recall there was perhaps a "Kings Crown" type picture on the label-sound familiar? Jewel carried it into the late 70's MAYBE early 80's?? Thanks!!

Please bring it back

Absolutely the greatest! I used to just open up a jar and dig in. I'd definitely order some if it were brought back. Write me at unevrno@hotmail.com and I'll send you my Mom's Chicken and Noodles recipe. Next best thing!

Awesome stuff. I think it had a "pop" lid, not screw off. Deefinately College Inn.

I crave the College Inn Chicken and Noodles! Probably my favorite taste ever! I still look for it, just in case it is made again.

I still scan the grocery store shelves hoping to see it. My grandmother always had some in her kitchen cabinet, and I would eat it when I spent the night. It was SO delicious and there is NOTHING like it on the market today. I don't know why they don't sell it anymore!

I love College Inn chicken and noodles. It came in a odd shaped jar with a snap off lid. I have never been able to locate anything close to it's taste. I also would buy it buy the case. It would be great for lunch or dinner.

OMG! I totally remember this in the late 70's it was the most awesome chicken soup ever

HEY GANG....MAYBE WE SHOULD WRITE THE TV SHOW 'UNWRAPPED'...THEY SHOW A TON OF NOSTALGIC TYPE FOODS FROM OUR CHILDHOOD/PAST. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE. NOTHING WILL EVER COMPARE TO THE KING OF CHICKEN & NOODLES! SO, WE MUST START A PETITION TO BRING IT BACK...THEY JUST BROUGHT BACK FRENCH TOAST CRUNCH CEREAL TODAY! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK...

The chicken and noodles in the jar was made by nalleys.

I loved College Inn chicken and noodles. They also had the beef and noodles, which was also great. Wish they would bring it back. It would be a staple on my shelf.

I use to eat this all the time in 60' and early 70's. I have come up with a receipt that is very close to the original. The secret is in the noodles. I can explain in detail. jr8843@live.com

my wife used to thicken it a little. sign me up for10 cases!

I too remember this from way back , as I am 73 years old and still miss finding it in stores and it was definitely College Inn brand in a glass jar.College Inn people...you're missing out on a goldmine here. Please make this product again!!!!!

College inn, Lynden (washington) chicken noodle dinner and finally Kraft meals for now Chicken and noodles all were the same recipe. If anyone has a recipe for this recipe, please share it! mark_nowak@yahoo.com

My mom was a young widow and had to work 3 jobs to take care of my brother and I. She cleaned houses and when we would go with her she would always bring a jar of College Inn Chicken and Noodles. If we were good and stayed out of her way ( watched cartoons) then at lunch we would enjoy eating together. The soup was the best! I wish they would bring it back.

Thanks for all the remarks. My dad,who is 90, wanted me to find him some. I checked with all the stores in Chicago and finally decided to check the web. I to miss the noodles.

I never got the one in the jar but it sounds like the one I am looking for that was in a can and made by Lyden's. It was chicken noodle dinner and the noodles were a dumpling noodle and very soft. I can't find it any more.

I do not recall it being College Inn. I believe it was Lynden's Chicken and Noodles. One jar would just go into a Campbell's Electric Soup Kitchen Cup.

Lynden Farms Meat and Processed Foods defunct in the 70s

I've been looking for College Inn noodles in a jar also. I loved this stuff. Yes I remember the gold lid and blue label in the 60's. It was really chickeny tasting. I'd buy a case too.

I'm quite convince that College Inn Chicken and Noodles is the only product out there that cured just about any illness. My mom would always, always give it to me when I was sick and I always felt better. Campbell's has NOT had the same result. LoL I can't believe they act like it never existed.

Absolutely, College Inn Chicken and Noodles was the BEST!!! Mom used to bring home and if I was there it was gawn gone. I have tried to find it, even in the Philippines (because they have stuff us sexy senior citizens used to like) but to no avail. If someone could only re-create it!! But nowadays it would probably be regulated by the FDA to have too much Cholestrol...who cares!

HELL...I WOULD BUY OUT EVERY JAR ON THE STORE SHELF WHEN IT WAS STILL HERE...I WOULD NOW BUY OUT THE COMPANY IF I COULD, AND HAVE IT PRODUCED AGAIN. THESE JUGHEADS WHO DECIDED IT WAS TO BE D/C NEED TO BE WHIPPED WITH A WET NOODLE...BECAUSE IT IS VERY APPARENT THEY DID NOT SIT DOWN AND HAVE A TASTE TEST OF THE ITEMS THAT SHOULD BE AXED OR KEPT. IF THIS WAS SERVED TO THEM AS LUNCH DURING ONE OF THEIR BOARD MEETINGS...I BET WE WOULD STILL HAVE IT! BUTTERED FRENCH BREAD, LETTUCE & TOMATO SALAD, AND COLLEGE IN EGG NOODLES & CHICKEN...LET'S START A PETITION TO BRING IT BACK OR HAVE THEM RE-CREATE THIS FOOD OF THE GODS...LOL!...BUT I AM SERIOUS BOOMERS...WE GOTTA TAKE A STAND SOMETIMES. I BET THE PEOPLE ON THE FOOD NETWORK COULD DO SOMETHING. THEY HAVE LOTS OF SHOWS WHERE THEY PRESENT NOSTALGIC FOODS AS THIS. BUT UNTIL WE TAKE A STAND, NOTHING CAN HAPPEN...YALL WITH ME?

College Inn chicken & Noodles was the bomb!

Loved it! I could have lived on that stuff. Only got it once in a while as a treat. I've tried to duplicate it for decades and can't get it right. Anyone with a recipe please help me out. And thanks everyone for the memories.

has anyone been successful in contacting the company? would love some of this right now!! But IDID find Weaver chicken roll, it's available at Shaw's in the Northeast, thank goodness I live in Massachusetts!!!

COLLEGE INN; LYNDEN, NALLEY MEALS FOR NOW They all had the same or similar recipe for chicken noodle dinner. I remember this was the cure all when ever someone was sick at our house. I have no doubt the recipe was handed over from one company to the next. If any one has a real good copy cat recipe, please post it.

This 55 year old's favorite food EVER! Miss those soft noodles, tender chicken chunks and that thick savory, salty chicken stock...drool

I remember it well. Loved it. Nothing like it out there. I believe it was only sold in the north east, defiantly not in the south. Couldn't find it until I moved back north in 1980.

wish you could still buy this, just loved it !!! why not bring it back ?????

It definitely was College Inn Chicken and Noodles in a glass jar. I loved it.

My brother and I was just talking about the delicious buttery tasting College in chicken Noodles in the diamond shaped jar with the blue lid. How we would love to have some

I agree. It was the best and sure wish it was still being made. No other brand came close because you could see how good it was right through the jar.

I too would buy cases. Love this! No chicken soup has ever come close to this!!! Has anyone found a recipe that is close?

I remember buying it in a can- regular size and family size when I worked at Safeway in the late 70's and early 80's. My supervisor introduced me to this fab meal in a can. can't believe it's not on the market anymore!!

Just today, my well grown son called to say he was really sick and was wondering if I knew where they carried that chicken and noodle dinner I gave them as kids. I told him they used to carry it here in town at Ralph's Mkt, but I hadn't seen it around for a couple of years. During the 70s the name brand was Linden's (in a jar), but sometime or other they were either bought out, or the original recipe was purchased, by Nalley Food Products, and their newer version came in a can. So darn good that we all hanker after it with the fondest memories, and drool copiously whenever it's mentioned. If it were still available we'd be up for cases of it too!

Update ... it was sold on the East Coast under the name 'College Inn' and on the West Coast as Lynden's and later Nalley's!

I loved this soup and thought the brand was Linden's.

Pinnacle foods bought nalley and discontinued their chicken and noodles, go to there website contact them and request they bring them back.

I will never skip the soup aisle when grocery shopping, as I search eternally for College Inn chicken noodle!

If there is such a thing as a deluxe flavor College Inn had it ! It was so intensely chicken - and those noodles ! No other product comes near it !

I really liked College Inn's Beef @ Noodles in that unusually shaped jar. My two younger brothers liked the chicken.

I remember this College Inn Chicken and Noodles too...omg. I loved it and would do anything to get more! I recall a tomatoey broth one too... can't recall if that was chicken or it might have been beef but it was the bomb too! Tall thin glass jars....

My husband and I loved College Inn noodles and chicken. I made some by accident this week and I thought it was exactly like College Inn. My husband had it tonight and said it taste exactly like College Inn Chicken and Noodles. My husband wants me to sell the recipe. You can contact me at 708-364-1000. Here's to GREAT MEMORIES of Awesome Comfort Food. Susan

I cannot cook, when my Mother and later my wife was not home & I got tired of fast food, would buy College Inn Chicken & Noodle soup in the glass jar. It was like homemade, better than restaurant soups. I consider Crampballs (the salt co.)Soups crap.

This was my sick time soup growing up. Whenever I had a cold or sore throat mom would ask what I wanted to eat and it was always soup in a jar. Bad move on companies part to discontinue it. Look at all the fans here!

I remember this product well. My Mother ate it through seven pregnancies. She sent me to get it one day and I could not find it. I went back until I DID find it. I wish it was still available. I did find a pretty close substitute. Dollar Tree carries chicken and dumplings in a case which is not half bad. Unfortunately, I cannot 8remember the name. Has a yellow label. We need to form a FB page for College Inn lovers.

We use to have the soup alot when we went camping. Quick yummy meal. Here it is 2018 and I am still thinking about it.Really wish it still was being made.

When my mother or my wife was away or when I lived by myself, College Inn Chicken Noodle Soup was there for me. I knew how to heat it. I am not a cook. It was to me, the only processed food that was like home made.

I wish that I could have tried the Noodles in a jar but I had the good fortune to have had Nalleys Chicken & Noodles that was more noodles than chicken or broth but the broth was heavenly and had nice little cubes of chicken thighs it tasted of real chicken broth and the noodles were perfect sadly it is gon now I have spent years looking for a replacement and the closest that I have come to it is from Vermont country store Amish Canned Noodles And Meat is as close as your gonna get it good not great but passable.

I LOVED College Inns Chicken Noodle Dinner,it was in a clear glass jar with a blue label.I wish,oh how I wish the would start making it again,it was SO GOOD!!Maybe they will reconsider and start making it again.It is one of my favorite childhood foods and a symbol of a better world.

One of my very favorite quick lunches for my kids. I Could usually find it on the top shelf in any grocery store...right next to the pigs feet in a jar. I still look for it To this day. DELICIOUS COLLEGE INN CHICKEN & NOODLES!!

So so so good.in the 60s multiple times per week.

There might have been imitations, but College Inn "Egg Noodles with Chicken" is something I ate regualry from about 1957 to the early 1970s. The last jar I ever found was at an IGA store in Chamberlain, South Dakota in 1975. I ate it cold in the parking lot. Even cold, it surpassed every chicken noodle soup I ever tasted. Yes, it was in a tall, sort of oval-shaped, clear glass jar with a light blue label, and you had to use a bottle opener to pry off the lid. I've written to College Inn, but the people who answer their letters are young enought to be my grandchildren, so they have no clue ...

It was College Inn and I ate it all the time.

I also loved theese “College Inn” Chicken and Noodles I wiuld love to have them again—I check the shelves at every grocery store I go to!

and I also liked the Beef and Noodles College Inn in a glass jar..

Yes!!I to remember that chicken noodle dinner in a can. I use to eat it all the time in the early 70’s. I lived in eastern Oregon and bought at Safeway stores . It was labeled Lynden chicken noodles and was made in western Washington by Lynden farms. They went out of business in the late 70’s. I sure miss that stuff.

New Copycat Recipe from the Chef I have very fond memories of eating this. I'm so happy I'm not the only one who reminisces this amazing chicken noodle dinner in a can. I remember as a early teen going fishing with my grandpa and uncle and them cooking it in a pot on the camp stove with plenty of black pepper. I live in Washington state where this was readily available. It was Nalleys chicken noodle dinner. Then the name changed to Lyndens. But Lyndens recipe wasn't the same at all and it wasn't even close the noodles were flat and the color was like a regular egg noodle and the broth was like a soup. Nalleys had less wide and thicker noodles and was a white color, and a creamy thicker broth. As a chef who like to experiment. I created a recipe for Nalleys back in 2014. The noodles are the key. So here it is and it is nearly identical and it really reminds me of that delicious can of sustenance I grew up with. You will need to find japanese udon noodles. They will appear white and look like linguini but much thicker. Try to find ones that aren't to thick or round though because some udon are the size of rope licorice. Ok you got that, the rest is easy. Cook noodles according to directions then chill in ice water. Next in a pot add 1 can of Campbell cream of chicken soup plus half can of milk and half can water. Bring to a simmer. Continue to cook to thicken slightly. Next add canned peas, canned diced carrots, and canned chunk chicken breast then add chilled noodles. Heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Simple and delicious. Feel free to experiment with the sauce. Another way would be to use chicken gravy in a can and add milk or you could try chicken broth from a carton with a little milk plus a corn-starch slurry to thicken (my fav & preferred method). Also you can use frozen peas and carrots to make it a little bit more Homestyle with fresh poached chicken breast chopped. I hope you make it and enjoy it I think it is possibly the closest you can get and I really think that this needs to be back in the stores. Let me know what you think. Everyone here is my kinda person. Contact chefmike01 at hotmail dot com

Woops I forgot to mention one thing. After cooking the noodles cut them in thirds or in half just don't leave them long ☺

I had the brands reversed. It was Lyndens as the original. Nalleys was the company that screwed up.

OMG! I saw College inn broth and immediately I remember the chicken & noodle dinner they used to make in the 70’s & 70’s. We would have it as a treat dinner once in awhile because my Mom always made home cooked dinners. Miss that meal!

I remember College Inn chicken and noodles in a jar. Wonderful stuff. I also used to mix it with a can of chicken a la king. I like the pimentos and bread crumbs idea. About 1969 was when I could find it.

I don't think I ever ate Lynden chicken, but I certainly remember the ads on the radio: Lynden chicken, chicken in a jar. Lynden chicken is the best by far. Say that with gusto a few times, and it will be stuck in your brain for days.

My dad love the cottage inn Chicken and Noodles. It came in a tall jar, with a blue label. I can sill picture the jar. I know it had to be sold in the sixties, because he died in 1970. I also liked it. It was a great lunch meal. Wish they still made it.

Yoder's Amish Restaurant in Sarasota FL has Amish Noodles as optional side dish. They ARE EXACTLY like College Inn Chicken & Noodles. BTW, the BEST hangover medicine!

My mother loved College Inn Chicken and Noodles. I'm not certain when they stopped making them but they did exist and the company should know that. It was an odd shaped clear glass jar with a blue label. Someone mentioned Swanson's Chicken ala King. You can still get that, even on Amazon.

60 plus years and I, and almost everyone who Ever tasted this noodle meal, still crave it. There must have been something addictive in it, I crave it more than my old family recipes.

Wish they still made this! College Inn chicken and noodles. In my 60’s now, too. Never found anything remotely like it except Chik Fil A original chicken soup. Not the one they have now with curly noodles. Would buy College Inn if it was still made. ❤️

I wish I could duplicate this recipe. (The above recipe by Chef doesn't seem quite right).This is probably the best soup I ever had in my life, (so far) hands down. The last time I saw it sold was in the 80s in New York. I tried calling College in and the first time they said they never made it. Then I called years later and they said it was discontinued. I really don't know why they don't revive it. They would make a ton of money. Maybe we can start a campaign?

I have to say I don’t remember College I chicken and noodles but I definitely remember Collage Inn CHICKEN in a jar. My mother would make Chicken aka king or chicken sandwiches with it. The she would wash out the jar and use it as a glass jar

I was raised in Southern California and it was labelled Lynden's: clear glass jar, wide noodles and chicken, right. So Lynden's wasn't just Washington. Delicious. Part of my love for pasta. Cheers.

Also from Southern California, It was Lynden's .Dad bought it at A&P market. Best soup you could have on a rainy day. Delicious THICK noodles and hunks of Chicken in a squared glass jar.Nothing as good in market now.

Yep, College Inn Noodles and Chicken in the same jar everyone is describing. So wonderful and delicious. Obviously memorable! Why would such a great product stop being produced? I could it it right out of the jar. Wholesome and totally satisfying. Wake up, College Inn!

West of the Rockies, we had swansons noodles and chicken. Now I can only find chicken a la king by swansons. My son is now searching for a recipe like that because he is craving just that thing.

Here on a cold Winter night, in the state Lynden Chicken Noodles were born, I reflected back to the soups I miss. Lynden Chicken Noodles was the first to flash through my mind. I sure miss them.

Our family consisting 3 grown children would sure buy it. And keep some on hand. Sure do miss it. I’m 84 years old and would eat it as often as i L9could buy it BRING IT BACK. COLLEGE INN CHICKEN AND NOODLES IN A JAR.