Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Tue 13 May 2008 10:18:41a, Jean B. told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
I thank all commercial tomato soups rank fairly high in sweetness,
regardless the type.

I am going to start collecting some old can labels precisely so I can
see how these products have evolved! Sweet! Why? Now I'll have to go
check the Amy's can. (Somewhere I said Annie's. If it was here,please
not that it is Amy's.)


I think you said Amy's, at least that's what I looked up on the web. What
I can't tell is if they are condensed and you add your own milk/cream.
That's what I would prefer. I'm not fond of canned products that already
contain the dairy element.

No, they aren't condensed.

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Jean B.

George Shirley wrote:
It's the Walmart syndrome. Ever been in the supermarket at a Super
Walmart? Every damned week they move the things on the aisles around and
even change the aisles. Their marketing people are hoping you will get
confused and have to wander around and the more you wander the more you
will buy. The main reason I don't shop there.

Aha! That's the only reason my daughter and I can come up with for most
such rearrangements. They must be awful for the employees too. :-(

--
Jean B.

TammyM wrote:
With the cost of corn rising, HFCS will be the more expensive option in
future ... good riddance.

TammyM


Isn't THAT a happy thought!

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Jean B.

jmcquown wrote:
I guess they think they're modernizing or something. When I was in SC I had
been shopping at Food Lion because the prices were ever so slightly lower
than Publix and they were right across the street from each other. But Food
Lion started a massive remodel and even the employees didn't know where
things were.

They'd had a fairly nice selection of cheeses - not the Kraft-type
hanging-on-a-rack cheeses -one week but the next week they were nowhere to
be found. It appears they removed them to a cooler in the stock room (or
something) but no one knew for sure. That's when I started shopping
exclusively at Publix for the duration of the visit.

Maybe they'll be done by the time I get back and I'll give it a walk-thru.
If they're still working on it I won't bother.

Jill


I wonder how many stores lose their customers even after their
remodeling/rearranging is done? Oh, they also discontinued many of the
things that I considered to be fairly basic. Guess what! If I have to
go to another store for those basics, they lose me for that whole
shopping trip, not just for those items.

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Jean B.

Sqwertz wrote:

TammyM wrote:

With the cost of corn rising, HFCS will be the more expensive option in
future ... good riddance.

Why hasn't the price risen already?

Out of curiosity, it's risen about $.04/lb for the last 3 years.
Currently at $.2841/lb wholesale for HFCS-55 (soft drink HFCS).
Which doesn't account for anything other than normal inflation.

The U.S. alone will produce 10 billion short tons of HFCS this year.
That would make a lot of ethanol, so why hasn't the price of HFCS
risen?

ADM? Government Hoax?

-sw

jmcquown wrote:
TammyM wrote:
With the cost of corn rising, HFCS will be the more expensive option
in future ... good riddance.

TammyM

I needed something to cheer me up! This did it

Jill



That and a fifth of Wild Turkey.

-dk

Sqwertz wrote:
TammyM wrote:

With the cost of corn rising, HFCS will be the more expensive option in
future ... good riddance.

Why hasn't the price risen already?

-sw

I imagine it takes a while to make the change. I do hope they do it
though. And, if they do, it might be interesting to see what health
ramifications there are.

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Jean B.

Sqwertz wrote:
Sqwertz wrote:

TammyM wrote:

With the cost of corn rising, HFCS will be the more expensive option in
future ... good riddance.
Why hasn't the price risen already?

Out of curiosity, it's risen about $.04/lb for the last 3 years.
Currently at $.2841/lb wholesale for HFCS-55 (soft drink HFCS).
Which doesn't account for anything other than normal inflation.

The U.S. alone will produce 10 billion short tons of HFCS this year.
That would make a lot of ethanol, so why hasn't the price of HFCS
risen?

ADM? Government Hoax?

-sw

heh. Maybe they don't want to lose this part of the corn business?

--
Jean B.

On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:50:22 -0500, George Shirley
wrote:

James Silverton wrote:
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Sometimes it's a bit weird! Yesterday, I tried to buy some ordinary rice
at the local Giant. There was an aisle labelled "Rice" but all that was
there was the dumb precooked stuff like Uncle Ben's. I had to go to the
"Imported" aisle to find regular rice (grown in the US!)

The Kroger store I shop in has the rice and beans on the same aisle.
Convenient as that is a staple food around here. The import stuff is one
aisle over, one side is oriental, Mexican, etc, the other is stuff made
in Louisiana. Never thought I would be importing food from 20 miles away
here in Louisiana.

well, they can't very well label the aisle 'wog food.'

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:54:00 -0400, "Jean B." wrote:

George Shirley wrote:
It's the Walmart syndrome. Ever been in the supermarket at a Super
Walmart? Every damned week they move the things on the aisles around and
even change the aisles. Their marketing people are hoping you will get
confused and have to wander around and the more you wander the more you
will buy. The main reason I don't shop there.

Aha! That's the only reason my daughter and I can come up with for most
such rearrangements. They must be awful for the employees too. :-(

i can't help but think there must be a better reason. if it's an
irritation for you, think of the trouble the store goes to. that's a
big expense to go to just to spur more impulse buys.

your pal,
blake

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

After all the discussion about the disappointment in the change to
Campbell's Tomato Soup and their cream soups in general, I discovered
something while shopping yesterday.

At least 15 or more years ago Campbell's introduced a Tomato Bisque that I
liked even better than their regular tomato soup because it has nice little
bits of tomato in it. Whether you made it with water, milk, or cream, it
was very good.

Over the past several years I haven't fouynd it on the shelf in the stores,
so assumed they had discontinued it. Perhaps they actually did for a
while.

Yesterday, I found it again at Safeway. I'm having it for lunch as I write
this, and out of the can it is the same nice thick concentrate with the
same flavor that the regular tomato soup used to be.

Indeed! I picked some up today.

Thicker'n owl snot (and lots more colorful):

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/tomato_bisque.jpg (not very big)

Definitely a spatula job.

I noticed that there's no "for thicker soup add milk" option in the
directions, either. I *think* their regular tomato soup suggests that;
probably another result of the thinning of the regular stuff. I know I
use milk if I have it.

slurping some Mmmmmmm. Comfort food.


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On Wed 14 May 2008 08:35:24p, Blinky the Shark told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

After all the discussion about the disappointment in the change to
Campbell's Tomato Soup and their cream soups in general, I discovered
something while shopping yesterday.

At least 15 or more years ago Campbell's introduced a Tomato Bisque
that I liked even better than their regular tomato soup because it has
nice little bits of tomato in it. Whether you made it with water,
milk, or cream, it was very good.

Over the past several years I haven't fouynd it on the shelf in the
stores, so assumed they had discontinued it. Perhaps they actually did
for a while.

Yesterday, I found it again at Safeway. I'm having it for lunch as I
write this, and out of the can it is the same nice thick concentrate
with the same flavor that the regular tomato soup used to be.

Indeed! I picked some up today.

Thicker'n owl snot (and lots more colorful):

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/tomato_bisque.jpg (not very big)

Definitely a spatula job.

I noticed that there's no "for thicker soup add milk" option in the
directions, either. I *think* their regular tomato soup suggests that;
probably another result of the thinning of the regular stuff. I know I
use milk if I have it.

slurping some Mmmmmmm. Comfort food.



You sound as pleased as I was!

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Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Wed 14 May 2008 08:35:24p, Blinky the Shark told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

After all the discussion about the disappointment in the change to
Campbell's Tomato Soup and their cream soups in general, I discovered
something while shopping yesterday.

At least 15 or more years ago Campbell's introduced a Tomato Bisque
that I liked even better than their regular tomato soup because it has
nice little bits of tomato in it. Whether you made it with water,
milk, or cream, it was very good.

Over the past several years I haven't fouynd it on the shelf in the
stores, so assumed they had discontinued it. Perhaps they actually did
for a while.

Yesterday, I found it again at Safeway. I'm having it for lunch as I
write this, and out of the can it is the same nice thick concentrate
with the same flavor that the regular tomato soup used to be.

Indeed! I picked some up today.

Thicker'n owl snot (and lots more colorful):

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/tomato_bisque.jpg (not very big)

Definitely a spatula job.

I noticed that there's no "for thicker soup add milk" option in the
directions, either. I *think* their regular tomato soup suggests that;
probably another result of the thinning of the regular stuff. I know I
use milk if I have it.

slurping some Mmmmmmm. Comfort food.

You sound as pleased as I was!

I never really noticed the change from thick to thin tomato. But I'm all
in favor of thick, now that I've learned that what I've been eating
was thin.


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On Wed 14 May 2008 08:58:21p, Blinky the Shark told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Wed 14 May 2008 08:35:24p, Blinky the Shark told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

After all the discussion about the disappointment in the change to
Campbell's Tomato Soup and their cream soups in general, I discovered
something while shopping yesterday.

At least 15 or more years ago Campbell's introduced a Tomato Bisque
that I liked even better than their regular tomato soup because it has
nice little bits of tomato in it. Whether you made it with water,
milk, or cream, it was very good.

Over the past several years I haven't fouynd it on the shelf in the
stores, so assumed they had discontinued it. Perhaps they actually
did
for a while.

Yesterday, I found it again at Safeway. I'm having it for lunch as I
write this, and out of the can it is the same nice thick concentrate
with the same flavor that the regular tomato soup used to be.

Indeed! I picked some up today.

Thicker'n owl snot (and lots more colorful):

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/tomato_bisque.jpg (not very big)

Definitely a spatula job.

I noticed that there's no "for thicker soup add milk" option in the
directions, either. I *think* their regular tomato soup suggests that;
probably another result of the thinning of the regular stuff. I know I
use milk if I have it.

slurping some Mmmmmmm. Comfort food.

You sound as pleased as I was!

I never really noticed the change from thick to thin tomato. But I'm all
in favor of thick, now that I've learned that what I've been eating
was thin.

Thre was a period of time when I wasn't buying tomato soup. Then when I
did buy some, I immediately noticed that it "poured" out of the can, where
before it had to be scooped out with a rubber spatula. I don't know
exactly when it happened, bu it was a huge disappointment. The flavor had
changed, too.

At least the bisque still has the thickness and the flavor...until the
*******s at Campbell's change that one, too.

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