I just had some kind of shitty soup. Progresso, beef stew or something like that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Fucking hate Progresso. Fucking hate canned soup in general. But I bought some last winter when I was sick, and I realized I better eat the few cans that are left, rather than waste the food.

How do people eat that shit?

I added some Fine Herbs and Herbs de Provance (probably spelled that wrong) and that made it better.

But cripes.

How do people eat that shit?

[mwdem]

1. It is shit. Never eat it.

I've never found a canned soup I could bear to taste, sick or not.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Sometimes, one is too sick to make homemade soup,

even to make it with canned broth or the phenomenal soup base that I use (can't remember the brand, but it's fucking brilliant!).

Every now and again, in the midwinter flu bullshit, I have to go to cans.

Good thing is, I can't taste it then.

[mwdem]

4. If you could lay your hands on some good hot and sour,

straight from the restaurant, that usually does the trick.

[Flaxbee]

3. Provence.

I've tried to spice up bad soup, and it just never works. I even tried to 'extend' some homemade soup I'd made by mixing in canned soup, reheating it, adding a little Parmesan, serving it over pasta, etc., to no avail.

And it pisses me off that we slaughter all these animals and put them in horrible food. What a waste. Yet one more reason to NOT mass-produce/mass-market/mass-ship meat. You should buy it locally raised and butchered if you want it, or don't have it at all.