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.
The only difference between natural sea salt, which is 98% sodium and table salt with is 99.9% purity is only 1.9% purity. By weight, both contain the same amount of sodium chloride........You could have made up the difference by adding your own table salt.........
The packaging of products these days announcing "sea salt" is nothing more than a marketing ploy by the manufacturers in attempt to target the the new "anti-salt" crowd...........
Oh, two possible corrections — if you mash the 3/4 of the potatoes before adding to the milk, you may not need to simmer a full hour. That was how long it took before I got the idea to mash them first, which only made it into the last version of the recipe; I haven’t tried it yet. Also, obviously, cut the green onions in to 1/2” or so before sauteing. And since it’s milk based, be sure to always be scraping any buildup off the bottom of the pan with a pancake turner or spatula or it’ll burn and ruin the flavor.
NO SOUP FOR YOU
They are only incidentally halal ~ the style is more in tune with a monthly cooking cycle associated with availability of community ovens.
I don't think we do that anymore.
The big thing is they don't have pork, but they use every part of the cow so the range of cuts is a little broader than that of a kosher butcher.
One of our neighbors does Pakistani meatballs, which she puts away and freezes. When they cook them they do so outdoors on their grill lest the spices penetrate their plasterboard walls and destroy them.
They ever hear of oil based paint? You know, real paint?
Neither time did I see it before I tasted the soup.
The only difference between natural sea salt, which is 98% sodium and table salt with is 99.9% purity is only 1.9% purity.
See post 27.
And Hubby ate it and said there's a weird after taste. He thinks they did more than just the salt thing.
There is a real possibility that they were in compliance with both Islamic and Jewish dietary rules all along and all they did was revise the label
Thanks! Been saving recipes. I’ll have to add that.
Well stated!
The halal butchers around here keep neat, clean, tidy shops. Fortunately this is not the Middle East.
Were you able to detect the change in taste of McD’s fries when they removed the tallow?
No, I meant the Pakis cooking outdoors so as not to saturate the wallboard. I don’t think anything can penetrate a good coat of oil based paint. Maybe better not to tell them, then you wouldn’t get to smell the meatballs cooking!
DH loves Brown Cow and eats it whenever he can. I’m surprised you can’t find it now. I wonder if it’s still around here, haven’t bought any in a couple of months. I can’t handle it because of the cream layer (shudder).
On the other hand I found about a year ago that "Kosher for Passover" means that there's NO wheat, barley or rye gluten in a product.
There's rarely any "Kosher for Passover" marked foods on the market tough so it's nothing you can count on.
For some reason most stores only carry the big tub of plain. And the price shot up about 2 years ago. I loved the blueberry but the only store that carried it closed due to losing a mint to shoplifting.
If they were in compliance with Kashrut, the label has a small “K”in a circle on the label. If the product is “Pareve” meaning that it contains neither milk nor meat, a “P” in a circle appears. If the product is “Kosher for Passover” (contains no leavening) THAT will appear on the label. It is up to the Observant Kosher Jewish person to look at the labels and READ them prior to buying the product, based on THEIR personal beliefs. I have No problem with that.
But when a Company announces that they will now be “halal” or use Sea Salt merely to appease politically a correct green agenda-driven propaganda machine, I have to draw the line.
The only time “Kosher For Passover” products are readily available is in the Spring...Just Before Passover.
After that, they become out of date!
Yeah, I quit going to the toilet a half hour later. It’s only in recent years that I’ve been a McDonald’s frenchfry fan.
Just went to a Campbell’s soupo site. Said the “reformulation” of the soups involved more than just the salt.
I prefer the way this rabbi discusses “Kosher for Passover” because it’s not just Kosher, it’s wheat gluten free (which is an incidental matter, but highly important to those with Celiac). Try: http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_passoverkosher.htm
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