I've never been a big fan of Campbell's Soup

[Coldwater]

beyond the occasional can of tomato or chicken noodle soup on a cold snowy winter's afternoon but if this is their attitude, they literally are Soup Nazis




Link

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/campbell-soup-lawsuit-9.6991398

[Ocelot II]

1. Sounds to me like the quoted executive is a racist asshole,

not that there's anything especially wrong with the soup. What's wrong with it is only what's wrong with most canned, ultraprocessed products - too much salt, HFCS, etc. I like the tomato soup, goes well with a grilled cheese sandwich. They need to fire the asshole, not the guy who outed him.

[Ponietz]

31. Asshole fired

✅

[Ocelot II]

35. Excellent. Then they need to rehire the whistleblower.

[CentralMass]

2. He should be fired.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Campbell's chicken noodle soup was the only semi-solid food I'd eat as a baby.

I refused to eat baby food, so my mother shoveled the soup into me until I was able to tolerate solid foods.

Now I avoid it and make my own soup or buy Panera soup from the grocery store. Campbell's has too much salt, tastes like the can it was in, and isn't an adequate meal. The bio-engineered chicken is disgusting, just the thought of it.

[dalton99a]

4. The exec:

[Coldwater]

7. Thanks for the name and bio

Martin Bally, the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Campbell Soup Company, has been suspended amid an internal investigation following allegations of making offensive comments about the company's products and customers. These comments were reportedly made during a recorded meeting with a former employee, where Bally allegedly described Campbell's products as "highly processed" and intended for "poor people," and made derogatory remarks about Indian employees.

The company has stated that such language does not reflect their values and is unacceptable.

[Celerity]

5. It's overrated shit. Never had a serving I remotely cared for.

[maxsolomon]

20. Campbell's Bean With Bacon was a staple of my teen years and into my 20s.

I burned a lot of calories in that era, and BWB usually did the trick for not a lot of $. I wasn't after complex flavors; I was after carbs, fat and protein.

[Sympthsical]

25. It's more useful as a base

Similar to using broth cubes, really. Just throw in more veggies and meat.

Growing up, my mom also used the cream of celery as a base for clam chowder.

Outside of that, finicky child eaters. I still get nostalgic for a can of tomato soup with a grilled cheese. And on cold winter afternoons, a can of mushroom soup - boiling hot - in a mug makes me feel like an eight year old again.

But yeah. It's just hypertension in a can for adults.

[Haggard Celine]

6. That's what most of those executives

think about the rest of us. We're suckers, losers, etc. I guess they have a point. We aren't for the most part critical thinkers, and that is the ultimate source of our misfortune. Until we realize it, though, we must continue to be dominated by men like this.

[Jacson6]

8. I have bought a can of chicken soup before.

It had only I small cube of chicken in it.

[jfz9580m]

9. The marijuana edibles aside

A total asshole…

[Diamond_Dog]

10. My mother gave us kids Campbell's soup

She loathed cooking so anything that was easy was what she gave us. I wonder if it’s always been junk or if just recently the unhealthy ingredients were discovered. I don’t buy it myself. Tastes like processed goo.

And this so- called executive sounds like a bigoted asshole.

[samplegirl]

30. I quit buying soup

years ago. I make all my own soup.
I use to use the cream of celery soup for a casserole but haven't made it for a long time.

[Ping Tung]

11. I see it as mostly super bland. I like flavor. Progresso has a lot of very tasty flavors.

[GoCubsGo]

12. I hope you're not also a fan of V-8, Prego, Peppridge Farms,

Swanson's, or Late July, Pace and Snyder's snacks. Because they're all owned by Campbell's, too.

[tavernier]

13. I just volunteered at a distribution center Monday,

filling and giving out bags of food for people in the community who have come upon hard times. I sorted hundreds of cans of vegetables and soups. Perhaps their executives hire cooks to simmer homemade delicacies in their mansions, but if they were hungry enough, I’m sure they would eat the canned soup and be damned happy to have it.

[Sneederbunk]

14. Honestly, I have never given Campbell's much thought.

[MiHale]

15. Our family made our own soup...

On the chicken side…for easy quick usually lunch meals, mom made Mrs. Grass chicken noodle soup with the ‘golden egg’. Campbell’s was not allowed in the house.

[mvd]

16. I eat it sometimes and don't mind it

If he’s that much of a racist asshole, who trusts him anyway. I’m sure there are better soups but not as easy to get on my budget.

[Melon]

17. The guy sucks. But....he's an IT Executive. Works in technology. He should be fired

For even being outside speaking about the product or any commercial topics.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Totally Agree

Clearly, he has zero expertise in marketing!
I was shocked that this buffoon is a board member.
He must have been good at hiding what a moron he is.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. Didn't really get these smaller cans of processed soups, as they have become pretty expensive for what you get.

The only I get and use, is when a recipe called for it. And as a matter of fact, I never really got into eating canned soups for lunch/dinner, just didn't get into it, and plus, you can make soup so easily anyways by throwing leftovers, etc. all into a crock pot or whatever, and cooking away.

[CTyankee]

19. Progresso has a group of low-sodium soups we like. they're pretty good, too!

[Xavier Breath]

22. Their low-sodium chicken noodle is really good and a staple at my place.

As for Campbell's, I will occasionally buy a can of their Chunky soup. It's a rare treat because its sodium content is like ingesting a salt lick.

[CTyankee]

24. I like your DU name! Clever!

[Xavier Breath]

29. Thanks, but I totally stole it.

I've always felt that theft is really the sincerest form of flattery

[Raine]

23. I only get Andersons split pea

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it's the only soup I really like.

[Historic NY]

26. I use Cream of Chicken

and a couple of others for recipes

[Wednesdays]

34. Same.

Cream of mushroom soup, too. Rarely eat them as soup, but that and cream of chicken is really yummy on boneless pork chops in the slow cooker.

[MIButterfly]

27. I used to eat Campbell's chicken noodle soup back in the day

much to my mother's chagrin. She would always say "there's no nutritional value in that shit."

Haven't had it in years. There are a lot of things I ate in my younger days that I wouldn't touch now.

Latest thing I heard is that that executive was fired.

[Arazi]

28. Can't make tuna noodle casserole without Campbells cream of mushroom soup

Doesn’t anyone make comfort food here?

(Yes I prefer the name brand for better flavor)

[Jack Valentino]

32. Campbell's Chicken Gumbo soup was a childhood favorite of mine... but in adulthood I've graduated

to making actual chicken gumbo!

Started out with the box mixes, now use just a 'gumbo base' mix and add all my own ingredients--
chicken, brown rice, tomatoes, lots of okra slices, onions, corn, minced garlic, lots of red pepper,
green pepper if I have any,
peppercorns and sometimes a good dash of liquid smoke!

I like to bake corn muffins to eat with it.

I make a huge batch, the remainder going into freezer containers which hold almost two normal size bowls each.
Usually end up with about 12 to 18 of those, depending on how big I make it, which go into the deep freezer.
Upon microwaving, I usually add a little water.

At one point I was adding pickled cactus to it, but upon reheating those
turned into hard little things formerly known as cactus, so that ingredient was discontinued.

[Jack Valentino]

33. It was the attitude of ONE guy, whom they have fired!

Us REALLY poor people usually go for the generic labeled soup-- which is cheaper.
Truth be known, much of it is actually manufactured by Campbell's as well...