In the north east we are well
into the deep winter and with winter comes snow storms and power outages and
short supplies and all sorts of panic even though we go through the discomforts
every year. Some look forward to it and others dread it nevertheless it is
here. And so is the need and desire for soup. No other time of year do I really
want hot liquid food sliding down my throat.
Only when my neck is cold. These days
you can find all kinds of soups everywhere with ingredience you never thought would be good in a soup. A
real guy soup is a can of Chunky Beer-n-Cheeze with Beef & Bacon that you can buy right
off the supermarket shelves. I’m not
sure how good it is for you but it sure was filling Burp!
Hey! With beer in soup written
right there on the label in supermarkets? Can a kid just buy a lot of soup and
get a buzz on? Silly me. The alcohol is cooked out of the beer in the boiling
process. The guys at Cambell’s Soup,
guys like Mark Alexander the president of Cambell’s Soup of North America says
that they are working on making hundreds of kinds of soup. Soups like Tomato
Chipotle & Olive Oil, Moroccan Style
Chicken with Chickpeas, Tuscany-Style Chicken & Pasta, Mexican-Style
Chicken Noodle Creamy Thai Style Chicken with Rice and more. Now I know our
country is becoming more diverse by the minute, but must my soup be that different
too?
When I grew up soup was basically
Chicken noodle and I would only endure that when my nose was really stuffed up.
Now I can feel like I am on vacation eating some exotic soup. Cambell’s Chunky
has a variety called Jazzy Jambalaya with Chicken Sausage & Ham. There is
Kickin’ Buffalo-Style Chicken even the packaging is not even in a can anymore.
There are squeeze pouches filled with soup now. No can opener necessary. There
are now 2 Billion containers of Cambell’s Soup sold each year. There are
still the old standby recopies the company would not dare to discontinue.
Varieties like Cream of Mushroom Soup that makes every casserole special, or
good old Chicken Noodle and Tomato Soup even though they have a slew of Organic
varieties. So where did the old fashioned stuff come from?
The company big shots say that
their chicken noodle soups have 32 feet of noodles in every can. Really? Now
you know what I will be measuring while stuck in the house during a snow storm.
Another trade secret lies in every can of Chunky’s Sirloin Burger with country
vegetables. They say that there are about 8 to 10 mini burgers in every can and
each one has little grill marks on them. Do they have little grills in the
factories too? Yes, If we get 24 inches of snow as predicted,sometimes, I will be tearing
open the burger soup and counting those little treats. Maybe they have little
chefs with little flippers too?
So, a snowy day with soup doesn’t
have to be boring but if you try to make it too interesting I m sure your family will eventually throw you out of the kitchen.
Maybe I can sell pictures of the can for money? Yeah we all know Andy
Warhol already that and made millions of dollars doing it. I also heard that he
ate the same lunch for 20 years. Yup. It was soup. Slurp!
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