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In some ways, it's so very difficult to eat healthy, good tasting food these days. So much of the aisles in grocery stores are filled with highly processed junk, most with fun stuff like high fructose corn syrup in it. Some stuff is being done right, though.
For some reason, I've had an idea for years of how tomato soup should taste. I don't know if I had some that tasted like this taste in my head as a little kid or what, but tomato soup never lived up to it, so I just never ate it. What it tasted like in the real world was gross to me. Still, I longed to experience that flavor again (assuming I actually experienced it once in the first place).
The search is over, however. While it's not an exact match, I have just found a tomato soup that is not only edible but is absolutely delicious. Campbell's has some new Select label soups in little cardboard boxes and the Creamy Tomato Parmesan Bisque makes their motto appropriate for once. Mmmmmm. I have had absolutely no appetite lately and have a hard time forcing myself to eat at all, but in the past hour, I've eaten most of a container of this soup. Unfortunately, it's premium flavor is definitely reflected in a premium price (it was $2.50 for an 18.3 oz container at Walmart!), but eh. I've been eating so little lately that if I'll eat something, it's worth it, and that's certainly cheaper than eating out anywhere. It's just expensive for a container of store bought soup.
I had the same problem with apple juice/cider, unable to find one that matched my childhood recognition of how it /should/ taste. There's a company producing juices called Simply now that makes apple juice how it should. Due to the fact that it's the real stuff, there's some variation in the flavor, so it's not always a perfect match to my memory, but it is often enough that it is really good. Talking to my mom about it, apparently there used to be a place locally that made apple juice and that's where she'd get it, hence the origin of my taste memory.
The Simply Orange juice with heavy pulp is unbelievably good too. They have other versions with varying amounts of pulp if you're a heathen who doesn't like pulp, but the heavy pulp stuff is definitely the best. It was funny when Bruce was alive. He and his kids don't like pulp whereas my mom and all her kids do. It was the orange juice wars. Bruce tried to make fun of us by talking about how he wanted to drink his orange juice, not chew it, but we just adopted the term and now we call orange juice with sufficient pulp chewy orange juice. Yum.
There are some other flavors of these Campbell's Select soups. I think I'll have to try them now, particularly the butternut squash flavor I've been eyeing for a few weeks.
For some reason, I've had an idea for years of how tomato soup should taste. I don't know if I had some that tasted like this taste in my head as a little kid or what, but tomato soup never lived up to it, so I just never ate it. What it tasted like in the real world was gross to me. Still, I longed to experience that flavor again (assuming I actually experienced it once in the first place).
The search is over, however. While it's not an exact match, I have just found a tomato soup that is not only edible but is absolutely delicious. Campbell's has some new Select label soups in little cardboard boxes and the Creamy Tomato Parmesan Bisque makes their motto appropriate for once. Mmmmmm. I have had absolutely no appetite lately and have a hard time forcing myself to eat at all, but in the past hour, I've eaten most of a container of this soup. Unfortunately, it's premium flavor is definitely reflected in a premium price (it was $2.50 for an 18.3 oz container at Walmart!), but eh. I've been eating so little lately that if I'll eat something, it's worth it, and that's certainly cheaper than eating out anywhere. It's just expensive for a container of store bought soup.
I had the same problem with apple juice/cider, unable to find one that matched my childhood recognition of how it /should/ taste. There's a company producing juices called Simply
The Simply Orange juice with heavy pulp is unbelievably good too. They have other versions with varying amounts of pulp if you're a heathen who doesn't like pulp, but the heavy pulp stuff is definitely the best. It was funny when Bruce was alive. He and his kids don't like pulp whereas my mom and all her kids do. It was the orange juice wars. Bruce tried to make fun of us by talking about how he wanted to drink his orange juice, not chew it, but we just adopted the term and now we call orange juice with sufficient pulp chewy orange juice. Yum.
There are some other flavors of these Campbell's Select soups. I think I'll have to try them now, particularly the butternut squash flavor I've been eyeing for a few weeks.
