Recently I have rediscovered my love of Campbell’s Soup. 

Just add water

My favorite has always been Chicken Gumbo.  I also like to eat Vegetarian Vegetable (with the ABCs).  I use Cream of Celery in meatloaf, since I am allergic to mushrooms.  There is always the old standby of Tomato, when you are hankering for a grilled cheese sandwich.  I never did like Chicken Noodle.  The bottom line is that there are so many uses of Campbells soup.

I also think the passage of time can be measured by the price of Campbell’s soup.  There was a discount store in my town where we used to go to buy soup.  I remember tomato was always the cheapest.  We could usually pick up four cans for a dollar.  Now you can’t get any soup for under a dollar.  And it’s not because they started packing the cans fuller.  You still need to add water.

There are more choices now; the “chunky” line (but now we’re getting close to two bucks a can), the “soup at hand” line, which is drinkable, and the “healthy requests” line, with less sodium (therefore less flavor).  I prefer to stick with my old standbys.