Campbell's New England Clam Chowder is full of rocks!

[ZombieNixon]

x(

Save your money.

[JohnKleeb]

1. These kind of rocks?

[elshiva]

2. Campbell's Ready Rock

[ZombieNixon]

3. All I know is they were hard and hurt my teeth.

x(

[Ariana Celeste]

4. Ick!

I like their Baked Potato w/ Steak & Cheese. :loveya:

[ZombieNixon]

6. I've never had that.

But RevActs started talking about soup so I got hungry and went down to the 7-11. To my chagrin, the product I purchased was 20% by mass rock. x(

[Ariana Celeste]

7. I think you should ...

march your ass back to 7-11 and try a different kind! :D

Or, call a lawyer. Works when people find fingers in their food. :shrug:

[neoteric lefty]

13. always a finger

never a toe... makes you think.




or not. :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. The Progresso is rock-free.

I also have experienced the Campbell's New England Rock Chowder. I love the Natural Sea Crab & Corn Chowder. It's pricier but really good. I stocked up when I saw it on sale.

[Generic Brad]

8. Charlie Brown Soup

(I got a rock!)

[jmowreader]

9. There's only one way Campbell's gets anything right

Campbell's makes pretty decent "soups kids like." (Oh yeah...did you know Campbell's Vegetarian Vegetable is kosher? It really is. They spent tens of thousands of dollars to get the plant certified kosher, and they have to shut down the line for three days before they run this soup to purify the equipment, plus they have to fly a rabbi in from New York when they run kosher product...but they've got a certified-Kosher soup. It was a big deal in Maxton when they got it finally approved.) All right, I know, you've got to put a quarter-teaspoon of Italian seasoning, a dash of fresh-ground pepper and a dash of garlic salt in the tomato soup to make it good, but you have to do that with most foods so it's no big deal.

New England Clam Chowder is not one of those soups. Therefore, Campbell's New England Clam Chowder is kinda lackluster. You can eat it. There's better. And those fuckers who run Ivar's in Seattle or the Commonwealth Brewing Company in Boston--or, hell, I'd even take a can of Skipper's right about now--need to get their SHIT TOGETHER and get their chowders into the stores in North Carolina because I am on SERIOUS chowder withdrawal right now. (Yes, I know you can order Skipper's online. What do you think I do? But fuck, man, it comes 24 cans in a case and you run OUT in a couple of months no matter how you try to ration it out!)

[freethought]

10. I will only say this once.

To expect quality clam chowder out of a can is along the same lines as trying to stop a 10 megaton nuclear detonation with a household fire extinguisher. It just does not work.
In fact, you can't get decent clam chowder even at some quality restaurants. One of the biggest culinary mistakes I have EVER made was having a bowl of New England clam chowder....in Chicago. Such a error has not and never will be repeated ever again.
Being a resident of the great state of Maine, and a native New Englander, my standards on N.E. clam chowder are very high. Legal Seafood markets N.E. clam chowder, IMHO it is 'satisfactory'. I will eat it and not complain or attempt to throw it out. It is getting pretty hard to find good chowder, even hear in Maine! It takes alot of time and effort to get a good chowder and the quality isn't always consistent. The best chowders I have tried have been, without fail, in small out-of-the-way restaurants and diners.
If you want good New England clam chowder you are better off steaming up some soft-shell clams and making the stuff your self.
I rest my case.

[pitohui]

12. so no way to rehab the stuff at all?

there's tons of it down here left over from katrina donations

i was thinking maybe it could be fixed by frying up some bacon and crunching up the bacon over the chowder

[pitohui]

11. people pay for them?

apparently the occasion of our hurricane allowed plenty of businesses to "donate" canned food that people don't like to eat -- and somehow among those donations we have ended up w. any number of cans of, yes, campbell's new england clam chowder

the one i tried was strangely sweet and i have been afraid to try any more