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Wayne Boatwright[_4_]

On Tue 29 Apr 2008 08:54:04p, told us...

> On Apr 27, 2:36ï¿½pm, Mike in Arkansas > wrote:
>> Anyone purchase any lately? ï¿½Just bought a box of 12 from a wholes
>> ale club. ï¿½Opened one and the contents literally poured out of the
>> can . After thinning per instructions it was weak and insipid. ï¿½The
>> othe r cans in the box were the same. ï¿½Out of curiosity, I purchased
>> a ca n from a store just to see if I had a bad batch. ï¿½Same thing.
>> ï¿ ½Formally, I always had to use a spatula to get the soup out of the
>> can it was so thick. ï¿½As I shop in other stores I will pick up a can
>> and shake i t. I can always hear it sloshing around. ï¿½Anyone else
>> notice or have the same issue? ï¿½Maybe our area just got a bad
>> batch.
>
> Their condensed chicken noodle has gotten pretty watery too. I
> remember when I was growing up in the 70s a can of Campbell's
> condensed chicken noodle soup would be packed with noodles and
> chicken. If you ate it straight out of the can you could eat it with
> a fork. I bought a can not too long ago and after draining off the
> juice there was only about an inch of noodles at the bottom of the can.
>

All this morphing of foods from their original version to something
practically inedible is really very sad.

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Wayne Boatwright
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