Canned soup anyone?

[+ poolboy48220]

I'll jump on the Progresso bandwagon too. Watch for sales - the 10 for $10 is mostly gone, but you can still find them less than the $3-something they normally go for.

[MiamiLooker]

The era they hail from, and about what they're good for:

 

http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/cdmuseum2/supply/food/cracker1a.jpg

 

http://www.thedomesticatedbachelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/falloutshelter-300x237.jpg

 

 

Unfortunately, I think you and Rudynate (post 24) are correct. One might think the relative high levels of sodium in these soups would at least impart a little flavor to them. I’ve gotten really good soups at places like Panera Bread and Nature’s Table. I believe these soups are made in bulk off-site. If so, it’s disappointing that canned/boxed soups at the same level aren’t available. Some of you have suggested Progresso soups. Which ones do you recommend? I’ve tried some of their vegetable and tomato soups, and to me they taste no better than Campbell’s.

[AdamSmith]

A big part of why we got canned soups is that the American food processing industry tooled up in WWII to produce K-rations and C-rations in industrial quantity. When peace broke out, they suddenly had no market for that kind of product. So they turned all that equipment and production capacity to cranking out what amounted to civilian versions of military rations. And so of course had to gin up the ad campaigns to brainwash housewives into dumping their mothers' honest cooking practices for processed packaged foods that, so the ads went, were not only more convenient but more nutritious into the bargain!

 

Truly one of our great cultural ruinations.

[bigvalboy]

A big part of why we got canned soups is that the American food processing industry tooled up in WWII to produce K-rations and C-rations in industrial quantity. When peace broke out, they suddenly had no market for that kind of product. So they turned all that equipment and production capacity to cranking out what amounted to civilian versions of military rations. And so of course had to gin up the ad campaigns to brainwash housewives into dumping their mothers' honest cooking practices for processed packaged foods that, so the ads went, were not only more convenient but more nutritious into the bargain!

 

Truly one of our great cultural ruinations.

 

Bingo!!! Give that man a Kewpie Doll.

 

http://www.emilysgifts.com/dolls/kewpie/kupcake2.jpg

[gallahadesquire]

I don't suppose anyone has a recipe for lobster bisque? I cant get enough of it. id shank a bitch for some

 

Hard to find a good one. People forget to cook off the alcohol.

[AdamSmith]

I don't suppose anyone has a recipe for lobster bisque? I cant get enough of it. id shank a bitch for some

 

Found it! Here is JFK's Maine Lobster Stew, really a bisque, as it was long served at Boston's legendary but alas now defunct Locke-Ober. This recipe has been tuned up a bit by Lydia Shire, who gave the place a last hurrah before it finally closed:

 

http://www.lobsterfrommaine.com/jfks-maine-lobster-stew-12085.aspx

 

Had it there once. It was sinfully good.

[gallahadesquire]

Found it! Here is JFK's Maine Lobster Stew, really a bisque, as it was long served at Boston's legendary but alas now defunct Locke-Ober. This recipe has been tuned up a bit by Lydia Shire, who gave the place a last hurrah before it finally closed:

 

http://www.lobsterfrommaine.com/jfks-maine-lobster-stew-12085.aspx

 

Had it there once. It was sinfully good.

 

I'm having my coronary just reading the ingredients. But she did remember to boil off the alcohol.

[sincitymix]

Found it! Here is JFK's Maine Lobster Stew, really a bisque, as it was long served at Boston's legendary but alas now defunct Locke-Ober. This recipe has been tuned up a bit by Lydia Shire, who gave the place a last hurrah before it finally closed:

 

http://www.lobsterfrommaine.com/jfks-maine-lobster-stew-12085.aspx

 

Had it there once. It was sinfully good.

 

woah, all that for just 6 servings.. I feel like Hedonism bot from Futurama. time to find some lobsters and pretend im a bond villain

[AdamSmith]

woah, all that for just 6 servings.. I feel like Hedonism bot from Futurama. time to find some lobsters and pretend im a bond villain

 

At Locke-Ober a serving came in a full bowl the size of a bathroom sink. I didn't eat anything else for a day and a night.

[Rudynate]

A big part of why we got canned soups is that the American food processing industry tooled up in WWII to produce K-rations and C-rations in industrial quantity. When peace broke out, they suddenly had no market for that kind of product. So they turned all that equipment and production capacity to cranking out what amounted to civilian versions of military rations. And so of course had to gin up the ad campaigns to brainwash housewives into dumping their mothers' honest cooking practices for processed packaged foods that, so the ads went, were not only more convenient but more nutritious into the bargain!

 

Truly one of our great cultural ruinations.

 

I wonder if that's where SPAM came from. As a little kid, which was in the post-war years, I remember eating quite a bit of SPAM. There were SPAM sandwiches for lunch and pan-fried SPAM for breakfast or dinner. I don't remember exactly when it disappeared from our table. Probably when my mother started reading Adelle Davis.

[AdamSmith]

Apparently. Spam was introduced in 1037, acc to Wikipedia:

 

The difficulty of delivering fresh meat to the front during World War II saw Spam become a ubiquitous part of the U.S. soldier's diet. It became variously referred to as "ham that didn't pass its physical," "meatloaf without basic training",[1] and "Special Army Meat". Over 150 million pounds of Spam were purchased by the military before the war’s end.[9] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28food%29

 

And it was cheap for domestic consumption.

[Guy Fawkes]

In Hawaii a party without a spam tray isn't much of a party.

[rvwnsd]

In Hawaii a party without a spam tray isn't much of a party.

 

I believe they serve spam with a side of spam in Hawaii. And, of course, a scoop of rice. ;-)

[TruHart1]

Apparently. Spam was introduced in 1037, acc to Wikipedia:

 

...etc.

 

And it was cheap for domestic consumption.

 

Wow! 1037! It's been around about 900 years longer than I would ever have guessed! :confused:

 

TruHart1

[Guy Fawkes]

Let's make that 1937! Spam Sushi is much more modern!

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Spam_musubi_at_Ninja_Sushi.jpg/330px-Spam_musubi_at_Ninja_Sushi.jpg

Wow! 1037! It's been around about 900 years longer than I would ever have guessed! :confused:

 

Truhart1

[AdamSmith]

Hah! 1037 and all that.

 

http://www.amazon.com/1066-All-That-memorable-history/dp/0750917164

[TruHart1]

Hah! 1037 and all that.

 

http://www.amazon.com/1066-All-That-memorable-history/dp/0750917164

 

OK. Now I see what your source is!!! LOL!

 

TruHart1

[TruHart1]

Let's make that 1937! Spam Sushi is much more modern!

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Spam_musubi_at_Ninja_Sushi.jpg/330px-Spam_musubi_at_Ninja_Sushi.jpg

 

But daddy, that Spam is way overcooked for sushi!

 

TruHart1

[+ quoththeraven]

Hah! 1037 and all that.

 

http://www.amazon.com/1066-All-That-memorable-history/dp/0750917164

 

Thanks for reminding me I need to buy this sometime. I had two copies and am now down to none. Unless it's somewhere in the wreckage I call a house, where my ex still lives.

[AdamSmith]

Thanks for reminding me I need to buy this sometime. I had two copies and am now down to none. Unless it's somewhere in the wreckage I call a house, where my ex still lives.

 

You don't have it committed to memory?!

[AdamSmith]

OK. Now I see what your source is!!! LOL!

 

Outed!

[Guy Fawkes]

Next your going to tell me that tamago isn't sushi... <Honk Honk>

 

But daddy, that Spam is way overcooked for sushi!

 

TruHart1

[+ quoththeraven]

You don't have it committed to memory?!

 

I remember "for pheasant, read 'peasant' throughout," and a bit of the joke about "when Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman." But memorized, no, plus there are pictures!

[AdamSmith]

I remember "for pheasant, read 'peasant' throughout," and a bit of the joke about "when Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman." But memorized, no, plus there are pictures!

 

I confess not quite having it to memory either, though I can recite much of the opus of their follower Richard Armour.

 

"It is said that the light from a thermonuclear explosion is equivalent to the light of 10,000 suns. If such a device is dropped near you, it might be a wise precaution to view it through a piece of smoked glass." It All Started with Stones and Clubs