On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:07 -0600, DreadfulBitch
> wrote:

> On 2/4/2014 7:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> > Used to be in this country, canned soup was considered the food of the
> > poor because you could get it for really cheap or sometimes free if you
> > had coupons, particularly if your store doubled or tripled those
> > coupons. Didn't apply to all soups. Was usually the Campbell's tomato,
> > chicken and noodle and cream of mushroom. I suspect that a lot of
> > recipes involved using the cream of mushroom soup only because people
> > could get it so cheap and likely had tons of it in the house.
>
> Uhh...um...wha? On what planet were you raised? Growing up we were
> hardly poor but we always had soup in the house for this, that or the
> other thing.

Julie is young and doesn't have the same life experience that you and
I do. My grandmother was a county Home Extension Agent. Part of her
job was to give cooking demonstrations and I remember she cooked pork
chops at home with a can of mushroom soup that was used as gravy.


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