On Apr 27, 12:19*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> It comes in a little carton said to contain two servings.
> The ingredient list looked okay, a little high on the sodium.
>
> I fixed it per the instructions on the carton. *Despite
> the sodium number on the box, it tasted like it was a
> low-sodium product.
>
> I've had some excellent cream of mushroom soup in my
> life. *The best was in the cafeteria at IBM Almaden,
> which despite being an employee cafeteria serves food
> worthy of a decent restaurant. *That's what I think of
> when I think of cream of mushroom soup. *I just mention
> that to show I don't hate mushrooms or mushroom soup.
> Properly made mushroom soup is wonderful.
>
> The Trader Joe's soup is the exact opposite of that.
> Horrible soup. *Very strong mushroom flavor, but an
> unpleasant flavor. *I suspect it was due to the use
> of "natural mushroom flavor base" and "natural
> mushroom concentrate", ingredients 3 and 4 after
> water and mushrooms.
>
> It reminds me of their truffle and black mushroom
> flatbread frozen product. *That's a flatbread covered
> with cheese and fungus pieces. *I reviewed that some
> time ago, and it was horrible in the same way.
> I haven't looked at the ingredients on that product
> recently, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had
> the same awful mushroom flavorings. *Even though I've
> eaten some bread washed down with non-alcoholic beer,
> I can still taste the aftertaste from the soup.
> Awful, awful soup.

You could've regurgitated it and taken it back and demanded your money
back.