Ross

Where's the Taste?

My wife secretly switched my regular heat-and-eat cans of Campbell's soup with the "Healthy Request" version, touting "98% fat free, 35% less sodium than the regular products".  Let's see if I notice:

Chunky AND Healthy?!?
Chunky AND Healthy?!?
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Yes.  Yes, I did notice.  And to commemorate my disheartening discovery, I've composed a 'ku on the subject:

Ninety-eight percent
fat free just means ninety-eight
percent taste removed.

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Sixbucksamonkey
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(snapping my fingers to applaud the poet)
grrrace
above comment made me snort laughing. damn it.

ps - good 'ku. it's totally true.
Steve Betz
Yeah -- getting rid of the salt AND fat in the canned soup is tough -- cripes you might as well make it from SCRATCH!!
Ginger_sister
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hehe,
Ok cause I'm a dork...here's your fun fact of the day. Taste mostly resides in fat or sugar molecules, so things without fat and sugar, like your soup, had nothing but salt to recommend it, and when you took 35% of that away...well, pretty much means it sucked. Sorry though. No one wants a crappy bowl of soup, even if it did produce a great haiku.
Ms Genevieve
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Fat = Flavor

I hope one day they start making stuff labeled with Extra Fat and Extra Salt...then buying the regular stuff becomes the better choice.

I want to write a Haiku before the year is over...you inspire me

stevie
And 98% less of whatever mean and veggies were supposed to be in there. I've had them too.
Procrastinator
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Well you were okay before the switch, right? Why change now?
Ross
After talking to my wife, it turns out she bought them because they were out of the regular kind, and she wanted to make sure I still had a variety of soup choices. We both eat healthy enough normally that I think I can have the "normal" versions of these soups without any guilt entering into the decision.

Thanks everyone for the inputs on fats and salts - this is what I suspected even before I had the soup, but I'm glad you've confirmed the explanation for why this soup is bland. Someone will strike it rich if they develop an artificial flavoring that tastes like the 98% fat that was removed, but doesn't add back in the detriments that come from the fatty content in the food.
Procrastinator

Ah fair enough - so it's not a "Let's go madly healthy" phase, which is something that happens in this madhouse frequently.

And it's soup anyway, so no real biggie!

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