All that talk about tomato soup/bisque and grilled cheese sandwiches
gave me that urge. After looking in three grocery stores stores, I
finally found Campbell's Tomato Bisque at Fiesta Mart.

$2.79 for the standard size can!?!?!

Somebody must have bumped their head if they think that can is $2.79
worth of soup. It was set off from the rest of the Campbell's stuff
like it was in a special class of it's own. The ingredients of both
soups looked the same except from some bits of tomato and some cream
(right after 'wheat flour' in the ingredients list - must have been
a lot of cream, eh?). I guess they thought they could get more for
it since it had French on it.

I settled on the $.69 can of regular tomato soup. So it's grilled
cheese and Campbell's tomato soup (made with half and half and some
chopped tomato) for lunch tomorrow.

-sw

"Sqwertz" wrote in message

I settled on the $.69 can of regular tomato soup. So it's grilled
cheese and Campbell's tomato soup (made with half and half and some
chopped tomato) for lunch tomorrow.

-sw

Works for me. We also use milk instead of water, add some grated cheese and
a few herbs and it is a surprising good soup compared to just following the
instructions and much cheaper than the bisque. As a kid, I worked in a
grocery store stocking shelves and it was 14¢ a can back then.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

As a kid, I worked in a grocery store stocking shelves
and it was 14¢ a can back then.

Geez, you must be old as dirt. And I'll bet you marked
the price on the cans with a stamp using purple ink.
And all of the brands of ice cream would have been
insipid crap. Good old days, indeed!

"Mark Thorson" wrote in message
...
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

As a kid, I worked in a grocery store stocking shelves
and it was 14¢ a can back then.

Geez, you must be old as dirt. And I'll bet you marked
the price on the cans with a stamp using purple ink.
And all of the brands of ice cream would have been
insipid crap. Good old days, indeed!

I'm 62 and still have purple ink stains. Back then Breyer's ice cream was
owned by the Breyer family and IIRC, a double dip cone was 20¢. Yes it was
in the big containers for scooping at the corner store and one of the
flavors was banana. Oh, and orange ice and raspberry ice. were like a
sherbet.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:


"Sqwertz" wrote in message

I settled on the $.69 can of regular tomato soup. So it's grilled
cheese and Campbell's tomato soup (made with half and half and some
chopped tomato) for lunch tomorrow.

-sw

Works for me. We also use milk instead of water, add some grated cheese and
a few herbs and it is a surprising good soup compared to just following the
instructions and much cheaper than the bisque. As a kid, I worked in a
grocery store stocking shelves and it was 14¢ a can back then.

I noted a rather elevated price for the t.bisque, myself. Mainstream
supermarket: $1.89US.


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"Mark Thorson" wrote in message
...
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

As a kid, I worked in a grocery store stocking shelves
and it was 14¢ a can back then.

Geez, you must be old as dirt. And I'll bet you marked
the price on the cans with a stamp using purple ink.
And all of the brands of ice cream would have been
insipid crap. Good old days, indeed!


Mark...." insipid crap. Good old days, indeed!"

What's this 'Insipid' crap you talk of?... Well I am a few years on from
Edwin..Like 68... And if I take the 'Old' taste buds back to when I was a
Youth.... I can honestly say that comparing Ice Creams and other things one
would find in a 'Milk Bar' (That's what the places that you went into to buy
Ice Cream etc, were called in Oz).... The Ice Cream that is made today (not
including the Gourmet one's though) were far richer and tastier than their
counterparts are today....There is simply no comparison of quality..

And the Ice Blocks I bought as a kid were frozen mixtures of 'Real' Fruit
juices, and they also made the same in milk and cream as well, excluding the
Citrus blocks...

Milk was 'real' milk, with all the top of the bottles etc just thick with
'Real' cream....No homogenising of milk then....

Were you around then to give a personal taste evaluation or is it just some
knowledge that you have picked up?...:-)

The Old Bloke from Oz

Bigbazza

Bigbazza wrote:

Were you around then to give a personal taste evaluation or
is it just some knowledge that you have picked up?...:-)

My earliest memories of ice cream were that it was
insipid crap compared to the premium ice creams
you can buy today. But then again, my parents
always bought the cheapest stuff (technically,
"ice milk"). I didn't know they had Breyer's
back in the old days.

On May 16, 10:44*pm, "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
"Sqwertz" wrote in message

Works for me. We also use milk instead of water, add some grated cheese and
a few herbs and it is a surprising good soup compared to just following the
instructions and much cheaper than the bisque. *As a kid, I worked in a
grocery store stocking shelves and it was 14¢ a can back then.

==================================
It's usually less than a buck and a half here and I make it with half
& half and float a pat of butter or a dollop of sour cream on top,
sometimes a little dill or tarragon. It bears almost no resemblance to
regular Campbell's Tomato soup.
Lynn in Fargo

On Fri 16 May 2008 08:24:09p, Sqwertz told us...

All that talk about tomato soup/bisque and grilled cheese sandwiches
gave me that urge. After looking in three grocery stores stores, I
finally found Campbell's Tomato Bisque at Fiesta Mart.

$2.79 for the standard size can!?!?!

Somebody must have bumped their head if they think that can is $2.79
worth of soup. It was set off from the rest of the Campbell's stuff
like it was in a special class of it's own. The ingredients of both
soups looked the same except from some bits of tomato and some cream
(right after 'wheat flour' in the ingredients list - must have been
a lot of cream, eh?). I guess they thought they could get more for
it since it had French on it.

I settled on the $.69 can of regular tomato soup. So it's grilled
cheese and Campbell's tomato soup (made with half and half and some
chopped tomato) for lunch tomorrow.

-sw

Then I'd say Fiesta Mart was ripping their customers off. I bought some
more Tomato Bisque yesterday at Safeway and paid $1.29/can. It was well
worth the difference to me over their tomato soup slop.


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On Fri 16 May 2008 08:24:09p, Sqwertz told us...

All that talk about tomato soup/bisque and grilled cheese sandwiches
gave me that urge. After looking in three grocery stores stores, I
finally found Campbell's Tomato Bisque at Fiesta Mart.

$2.79 for the standard size can!?!?!

-sw

Then I'd say Fiesta Mart was ripping their customers off. I bought some
more Tomato Bisque yesterday at Safeway and paid $1.29/can. It was well
worth the difference to me over their tomato soup slop.


--
Wayne Boatwright

I am reading this after having whipped up a pot of homamde cream of tomato
soup which cost me about euro 1.10 to make and is 6 servings or more. I
could have made tomato bisque just as easily, but I don't like it made with
skimmed milk which is all I have in the house.

It takes almost no time, is great in cold weather with canned tomatoes, or
in heat with fresh ones. And it is obviously much cheaper-- perhaps because
I don't have to put stabilizers and hfsc in it?


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Giusi wrote:

It takes almost no time, is great in cold weather with canned tomatoes, or
in heat with fresh ones. And it is obviously much cheaper-- perhaps because
I don't have to put stabilizers and hfsc in it?

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In summer, do you make a cold gespacho (sp?) version instead of hot
tomato soup?

Sky
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"Sky" ha scritto nel messaggio
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Giusi wrote:

It takes almost no time, is great in cold weather with canned tomatoes,
or
in heat with fresh ones. And it is obviously much cheaper-- perhaps
because
I don't have to put stabilizers and hfsc in it?

--
http://www.judithgreenwood.com

In summer, do you make a cold gespacho (sp?) version instead of hot
tomato soup?

Sky

I make gazpacho, but I don't think of it as a substitute for cream of tomato
or tomato bisque! I can't see any reason not to have those year round,
whereas gazpacho you want when the fresh vegetables are at top quality.We
are a month away from that.

"Mark Thorson" wrote in message
I didn't know they had Breyer's
back in the old days.

It was a local brand in the Philadelphia area. Then it was bought out by
Sealtest, Kraft, Good Humor and it was taken to the mainstream and diluted.

On 2008-05-17, Mark Thorson wrote:

My earliest memories of ice cream were that it was
insipid crap compared to the premium ice creams
you can buy today. But then again, my parents
always bought the cheapest stuff (technically,
"ice milk"). I didn't know they had Breyer's
back in the old days.

They made fanstastic ice creams back then. In the early 60s, soemone
(Formost? Carnation?) made an ice cream called Strawberries n' Cream.
Easily the best ice cream I've ever tasted. REAL strawberries. Not
the tasteless freeze-dried crap you see today, but real, fresh, juicy
strawberries mixed in vanilla with a "cream" swirl running through it. It
was ice cream nirvana.

nb

On 2008-05-17, Sky wrote:

In summer, do you make a cold gespacho (sp?) version instead of hot
tomato soup?

I've never made tomato soup, but I do occasionaally make gazpacho. I use
English cukes. yum!

nb