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Canned Soup

18:45 / 08.12.03

My husband's still eating leftover Thanksgiving turkey soup, so I've been fending for myself and eating canned soups, since I can't be bothered to make any.

Right now, I'm eating Amy's Organic Soups Black Bean Vegetable variety. And I have to tell you: The corn in this soup tastes revolting. I mean really, really bad. And not just bad, but weird, too.

What's led me to start this thread is that I've had a bastard of a time finding good vegetarian, organic store-bought soups. It's as if the manufacturers of said soups figured that our taste-buds would have been so numbed by all the tofu that we wouldn't notice if their products tasted like algae- or worse. The first time I had a mouthful of Pacific Organic Creamy Corn Soup, I had to run to the sink, gagging. And the rest of their soups aren't quite that bad, but they're miles from good. The only halfway decent soups I've found are Westbrae Great Northern Plains Bean soup and Minestrone.

Is this just me? Anyone have good canned soup experiences?

18:53 / 08.12.03

sodium, sodium, sodium! anything in a can should be avoided like the stinking plague!

that said, I'm off to run screaming and naked through the office, tearing out clumps of my hair. I really miss super salty badferya clam chowder.

19:06 / 08.12.03

I don't really like canned soup now that I am an adult. Soup is so easy to make, and I really love the asian style soups, where everything is still crispy and has noodle or wontons in it...mmMMMmm

I used to love Campbell's minestrone soup. Now I realize, it barely passes for monkey chuck, nevermind minestrone.

19:18 / 08.12.03

get yourself a blender, one of those ones that you can stir round a pot.
you can blend almost anything into soup, as long as you make a stock first.

i do mean almost anything, by the way.
just be careful and use your taste buds.

19:37 / 08.12.03

sodium, sodium, sodium! anything in a can should be avoided like the stinking plague!- bitchiekittie

Tee hee!

Yeah, I'm usually a soup-making fiend. I love making soup, but there are times when the 20 minutes it would take me make soup is 15 minutes too long. Opening a can= nice and easy. The drift I'm getting from the responses to this thread is that crappy-tasting canned soup is what I get for being lazy. Which is probably true.

20:00 / 08.12.03

Pepperidge Farms makes some pretty tasty condensed soups.

23:07 / 08.12.03

I don't know anything about canned soups for I belong to the abominable Kulte de Ramen. We noodle your noodle!

23:24 / 08.12.03

I love Cambells condensed chicken noodle soup (with no water added).

00:53 / 09.12.03

I actually really like some of the Amy's brand, 'specially the tomato bisque and the no-chicken noodle. But I usually only open a can of soup when I'm sick or nearly sick, so perhaps my taste buds at that time are unreliable.

01:21 / 09.12.03

I never use tinned soup. If I cant be bothered to make Bedhead’s Own Skanky Leftover Broth, then I only ever used packet soups. They’re never realistically going to fool you into thinking they’re wholesome or natural, and I find them to be conveniently compact in their dried state. Cans take up too much room in my cupboard, man. It’s just not an efficient use of space.

11:54 / 09.12.03

Baxter's Cullen Skink - well worth eating (much to my astonishment).

12:08 / 09.12.03

I love Cambells condensed chicken noodle soup (with no water added).

How does eating them without water work? For me, they always come out of the can so solid that it's almost possible to build little soupcastles out of them. Any of the condensed ones (diluted a bit) work as pasta sauce, though. Although that's more of a survival tip than it is food advice.

13:05 / 09.12.03

generally my soups come in tetrapaks. but if can must, then as i was reminded recently Heinz' cream of tomato soup really is the cream of tomato soups.

21:42 / 09.12.03

What you should do is mix a half can of Heinz baked beans into a full can of Heinz Cream of Tomato soup, heat and serve with a big slice of bread. I know it sounds bad, but if you're insistent on eating crap soup full of the dreaded sodium, this is the comfort soup of all crap soups.

Oh, and of course add salt to taste...