/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11261511
Nothing sold in the USA that has a red and white contrasting pattern has ever been good. Marlboro, Budweiser, Campbell's: all mass produced trash that I would only consume in a survival scenario.

>>11261511
People here will criticize for being a regular common name brand product instead of some faggoty gourmet bullshit, but the truth is Campbell's soup is great, particularly I'm a fan of their basic chicken noodle soup and tomato soup. It's not going to blow your mind or change your life, but it'll always be straightforward good tasting soup.
>>11261539
>mass produced trash
Mass production's great. It's a special benefit mostly unique to our own time period that we all have access to an endless supply of these hyper-real Platonic Forms of food and drinks that all magically adhere to the same tight production formula. Instead of needing to play a guessing game each time you get more food and drink like people did in the past, we now have the guarantee of a Campbell's soup or a Coca-Cola bottle on demand 24/7 with near perfect fulfillment of expectations for what these products will be like. Andy Warhol was all about this shit:
>What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
It's easy to take for granted because this concept of mass production has exploded to such an insane extent and fills up so much of our everyday life now that it's like expecting fish to recognize water and its benefits to them.

>>11261511
It's not bad, but as a rule you should generally steer clear of any meat in a can.

Canned soups are notorious sodium bombs. Eat in moderation.

>>11261625
Devilled ham says hi.

Progresso is better, but not by much.

It's all just salty calories they expect you to eat with bread or crackers.

>>11261586
>no amount of money can buy you a better coke
Supa deep brah

Drop some pocket change and try it faggot. Or are you too poor to possibly waste a few quarters?

I don't like to buy soup because they always find a way to cut corners. Only whole ingredients for me :-)

>>11261586
Nobody's arguing against mass production, dipshit. If you think something is good or of superior quality just because it's mass produced then you're delusional.

>>11261511
canned soup is ok, but in no way compares to homemade they're essentially two different beasts

>>11261511
Campbell's soup is a mixed bag. By and large it's not the best canned soup on the market, but it's not the worst, either. Some of the varieties are quite good (as canned soup goes). Tomato is the classic. The cream soups are mostly just OK. I find both these and tomato are better if instead of adding milk (per the label) I add about 3/4 milk and 1/4 cream. It doesn't hurt to adjust the seasoning to taste, too. I'm less familiar with their meat soups, as I mostly buy the condensed varieties. Generally, for non-condensed soup, I find Progresso superior.

>>11262076
This is very true. Campbell's cream of celery will never replace my late grandma's.

>>11261539

Coke is also terrible.

>>11261586

>no amount of money can get you a better coke

No you just spend the same amount a get a good soda. Like a pepsi.

>>11262173
>pepsi
>good
Millennial spotted

>>11262189

>denies superior soda
>attempts an insult

zoomer detected

>>11262221
Swing and a miss.

Gen X all the way.

>>11261511
Condensed version are all shit.

Chunky version are ok for $1.50 when on sale, the only decent ones are tomato, chicken noodle and new england clam chowder.

Tomato is good but it needs at least some milk in it.
Condensed cream of chicken was one of my favourite comfort foods for years though. Great for a hangover. I'd add ground cumin, a ton of black pepper and maybe some chilli powder. Maybe some other shit but the cumin really transforms it.
I eventually cut down on them though because of the sodium and I got real good at cooking my own soups.

>>11262061
Nobody except the specific post that was a reply to?

>>11261937
It is deep honestly, Warhol had a neat point of view. We take assembly line production for granted and tend to disparage it if anything's even said at all about it, but he saw how it was really a pretty cool concept that you could base a relatively new kind of art around.

>>11261511
not good for eating alone, but the mushroom soup is a good base for slow cooking

>>11262794
Which was ultimately shallow, uninteresting and disposable once the novelty wore off.

>>11262803
Not really, no.

>>11261511
The chunky chicken noodle and the chipotle chicken corn chowder are both pretty decent

>>11261586
>hyperreality
BASED Baudrillard poster

>>11262803
Your ultra-hip rejection against the machine is becoming equally disposable as time wears on.