My wife’s Ford Expedition has so many things on it and we don’t know half of them. It’s all we can do to get the radio working. Of course, we’re old people who think home computers are “new”, even though they’ve been around for 40 years.
For me, at least, the taste of Campbell’s degraded about the time they went on the kick to reduce the amount of salt in their soups. My simple solution to that has been to add a shake or two of salt before heating it up and presto; it tastes like the “old” Campbell’s to me again!
And I’ll second the earlier comment about Marie Callender’s chicken pot pies. I got started on them last year when my wife had to be in Ohio for six months caring for my 94 year old father-in-law. One of them is a meal and definitely heat them in the oven - not the microwave!
Curt
If you like peanuts, buy Smithfield Tavern- seriously, once you have these you wan’t buy Planter’s anymore. I used to order them by the case lot and then found out my blood pressure was through the roof, so no more peanuts for me. But I am tempted by the barbecue peanuts- Get thee behind me, Satan!
https://www.smithfieldmarketplace.com/category/virginia-peanut-gifts
At the store this morning - there was virtually NO Campbells Soups available, at least not the ‘regular’ red lable variety.
Holy Mother of God, Smithfield peanuts!
They sell 'em in the local hardware store, they sell 'em in the supermarkets, (This IS Virgina after all!) and if I buy a can I can’t stop eating them! Think “Bet you can’t eat just one!” applies to Lays potato chips? No way brother, not if you bring Smithfield peanuts into the equation. And they say crack’s addictive!
I’ll only buy a can every six months and won’t touch them otherwise, I don’t dare!
Thank you for the peanut recommendations. I like to support these types of businesses, and will place an order.
Their soups, ready-meals, some Pace sauces, and V-8 and Tomato juices have been sold out here for a while too.
Makes me suspect there are some supply side issues involved there, as well.
Wouldn’t surprise me to learn they had off-shored some of their production as well.
I KNOW THEY STILL HAVE PLANTS HERE, there is one just over the ohio line in Defiance , and I am sure that there are many other posters here who are aware of others.
That does nothing to keep me from suspecting that some items have been offshored.
I loved it when Coffee Crisps made it south of the border, but it didn’t last long.
You mean to tell me you can’t get Coffee Crisp Stateside? Oh my God !
Will call the President and straighten this out.
Good one!
Flintlock- I said that exact Eichmann line to a guy in a chicken processing plant a few years ago. He was howling with laughter. I recall on 60 Minutes many years ago about an egg processing plant. How eggs are cracked by machine, yolks seperated by machine and so forth. It was quite fascinating and the punch line was, “A chicken is the means used for an egg to make another egg.”
Granted, I don’t live far from the border, but, hey, we’ve got Timmy’s! There might still be hope!
Just so everyone knows, I pulled / altered an earlier post because I got some qualms as to whether it was in questionable taste or not. If no-one minds or they’re curious I can post it again.
The last thing I want to do is offend anyone here, even unintentionally.
A far ‘funnier’ one was a cartoon in a men’s magazine I shall carefully leave nameless, decades ago. An angry chicken says to a man “He may be Colonel Sanders to you, but he’s Adolf Eichmann to me!”
Not at all funny to Shoah survivors. Unless they have an appropriate sense of grim humor… which I’ve found most of them do. And to me anything that helps us ‘never forget’ the real lessons is ‘net positive’.
Wayne, that has to be the thing you were referencing. I’ve been looking for the original for what has probably been over 40 years now. I think it was Flynt, not Guccione … more his speed, before he got shot.
Hey! Is that a new breed of chickens? All I ever knew let only the one lowest in the pecking order on the top roost with the one who outpecked all the others.[(-D]
Yeah, that was it, that was the one I referenced.
And I only used to buy that magazine for the articles. (Ahem.) [:-^]
Is nothing sacred??