isw wrote:

> In article > ,
> "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
>
>> notbob wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-09-19, Gregory Morrow >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "The famous taste...and less salt! The soup with the famous taste
>>>> you know and love is healthy, because Campbell adds a naturally
>>>> flavorful sea salt that helps us use less salt..."
>>>
>>> Campbell's has degraded the quality of their soups so much, the only
>>> "taste" they had left WAS the salt. BTW, all salt is sea salt.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I guess Campbell's is late gettin' on that "sea salt" fad,
>> lol...
>>
>> Whatever happened to that particular fad, one wonders? A coupla
>> years ago stores used to have displays of fancy $$$ French
>> "sel"...haven't seen that lately.
>>
>> I'll pick up a can of the tomato soup if it's cheap because I use it
>> in a salad dressing recipe (from the old George Diamond's steak
>> house here in Chicago, it was their "house" dressing).
>
> Haven't heard that name in a loooong time. I had some memorable
> dinners there in the late '60's and early '70's when I occasionally
> went to Chicago on business.


It was *the* Chicago steakhouse back in the day, real fancy - shmancy. It
was on S. Wabash, IIRC it closed about 15 - 20 years ago, by the end it had
become a sad shadow of it's former self...

That whole area of S. Wabash under the L at the time had a slightly honky -
tonk atmosphere with a real urban character, now it's all gentrified. :-(

Another famous steak place was the Stockyard Inn - that's when Chicago still
had *stockyards*, lol...

There was also the famous "Ronny's", where the hoi - polloi could get a
cheap steak dinner in a cafeteria setting. It was in a Germanic - style
building that had once been the "Old Heidelberg" restaurant. Ronny's is not
in that location anymore, I think they are still extant, but in another
location.

These places were all before the rise of joints like Morton's, Ruth's Chris,
etc...

[BTW, I'm not *that* old, I've just read a lot of Chicago restaurant
history, lol. But I did eat at the Stockyard Inn with my dad when I was a
kid, we were attending the 1967 Chicago Auto Show...)


> Tell me more about the tomato soup "house dressing".


It's basically a vinaigrette with tomato soup added...Bob T. posted a link
above.


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Best
Greg