Posted on 01/01/2011 10:36:34 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
My husband bought me some of my favorite soup, Campbell's Cream of Potato. My mouth got all ready and I sipped the first spoon. I spit it back in the bowl. It tasted TERRIBLE! I thought it was spoiled. Nope. Now! With Sea Salt Added! If I wanted sea salt I'd go float in the ocean!
I just discovered that they've done the same to Vegetarian Vegetable. No more Campbell's soup for me. And I wrote them to tell them where they can stick their sea salt! I don't buy Healthy Choice soups because they taste awful. So they are now going to force their idea of healthy on consumers? The left is taking over everything and forcing their ideas on us. I'm really angry. They stick their nose in every aspect of our lives.
I guess I'll just have to make my own.
Accidents happen!
Of course. If you have a product that people buy, mess with it.
Over 400 replies about a soup... and I posted a thread the other day about the national debt getting to 14T and got 8 replies...
Don’t get me wrong! Wintertime and soup is essential!!
But sometimes I just can’t help but wonder WTF???????
I have noticed a change in taste of all the soups I buy now and whether it's due to the change in salt/sodium content, I don't know. but they leave a bad after taste in my mouth too...........
“You need to get the Mexican coke, it’s still made with cane sugar.
I wish I could. I don’t even know how to go about doing that.”
Turn on your local news. Make a map of arrests for drugs and locations of shootings. Drive to the center of that area and look for a sign that says Mercado.
I think the difference is timing. Nothing’s going on today.
Interesting that the ancient Hebrews figured out that sometimes you gotta' give up the wheat, barley and rye!
Almost like there was some segment of the population ~ maybe the Scribes ~ who were "different", so this was a token of respect.
My understanding is that rice was not known in ancient times in the Middle East ~ so it was handled like Quinoa ~ but it got put on the 'bad list" in the Diaspora in Spain.
Now, that’s not nice.
Weird tasting stuff. Probably cutting corners and using cheaper ingredients. Hubby said the label listed a salt substitute besides using sea salt.
I have a chest freezer so I'll have to make some and freeze it for when I want it.
DJ, read Sacajaweau’s comment.
I make potato soup that DH loves. Here’s my version (sorry no exact amounts of anything), I make it in a 2 gallon pot, usually about 2/3 full.
First I put about (3 or 4?) T of ghee or butter in the bottom, warm it up, chop up 1/2 to 1 onion in slivers and cook it, adding salt. When partway cooked, I add some turmeric (makes it nice and yellow too), some paprika (not very hot), a bit of coriander, cumin (both ground) and stir it up. If I’m very ambitious I’ll add a tiny bit of fresh diced and peeled ginger. Usually black pepper too. Then I stir in about 3 or 4 sliced and de-stringed celery, and stir some more and then add a lot of dill weed.
Then when it’s starting to get hot, I add (hmm, how many???) peeled and diced potatoes. Maybe 8 large ones? Depends on how much liquid. Stir up until it starts almost to stick, I use flat bamboo spoons.
Then I add water to just barely cover and cook until almost done, then add milk and cook a bit more. It’s easier to thin it with more milk if too thick, than try to add anything to thicken it if too liquidy.
Optional: Sometimes at the proper cooking time I add sliced asparagus, small brocolli florets, etc.
I don’t mash it at all because he doesn’t like it mashed. I do. I mash mine.
:-)
I’m thinking that’s not a really good idea. The local illegal pickers named their meeting hall Los Alamos
We have a rather large list of companies (Campbells & P&G included) that won't get a dime of our money. Activist causes, smaller portions, and closing US facilities while opening them elsewhere are impetus for us to buy American, grow or make it ourselves, or live with less (be content with what we have).
Yup. He’s a meanie! ;-)
Yeah. I saw the comment. Idiots.
It’s not just the size of chocolate chips bags. The ingredients in many are weird now. They’re inedible.
Mmm, that sounds yummy. Think I’ll give it a try!
Don’t be so quick to blame the salt on that one, it may be the oil or fat they used. The zero trans fat products are like eating cardboard. I called Archway to complain about their molasses cookies and the customer service person admitted they were getting lots of complaints about the change in texture and taste but the zero trans fat was healthiest and they would not go back. I told her that bag was the last Archway product I would ever buy.
I buy one small can of Crisco a year to make my grandmother’s ginger cookies at Christmas, now that Crisco has gone zero-trans fats the same thing, texture and taste is affected and they are like cardboard. I have seen lots of complaints about the new Crisco on a baking chat board where I read. Most comments are about the change in texture of pie crusts. They are now less flaky.
As far as chocolate is concerned, the ONLY chocolate I buy is the Lindt bitter dark chocolate bars, either the 70 or 85% cacao.
I'd have told her that she was probably less qualified than I to say what was and was not healthy, that she was probably basing that opinion on no more than what she was hearing in the pop media, and that even if she was qualified, and RIGHT, she STILL had no business trying to decide what I was and was not allowed to eat. And like you, finally, that I don't do business with companies that have that attitude.
IMO Crisco was a vastly inferior substitute for lard or bacon grease as a baking shortening in the first place. Go back to the real stuff.
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