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Default Chicken gumbo, do you like it? I've never had it, but...

On Sun, 06 Jun 2021 15:24:15 -0400, Sheldon Martin >
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>On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 11:05:25 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:
>
>>On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 9:44:57 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>
>>> Today I bought a can of Campbell's condensed chick gumbo soup. I sure as heck didn't like it. Is there file' powder in there? I don't know, but I'd sooner have regular chicken soup with rice or noodles. My question is: does this soup at all have any similarity with a traditional chicken gumbo? If yes, then
>>> I will make gumbo and throw the whole thing out as good for nothing.
>>>

>>I've never eaten Campbell's chicken gumbo soup. I can't imagine it would
>>resemble homemade gumbo in taste in the least.

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>I've never seen Campbells chicken gumbo, least I've not noticed it.
>But it's Campbells soup and I've eaten lots and none were noticably
>bad... they don't come close to my homemade but none I've tried were
>off putting. I find Campbells soups not special but all as good if
>not better than soup from any restaurant. I'll guess that Campbells
>gumbo contains okra and many people don't like okra. It just so
>happens that next to beets okra is a favorate vegetable, and I grow
>lots of okra. Too bad okra doesn't come canned like beets, would save
>me a lot of work. When fresh okra is available one of our favorite
>dishes is an okra omelet.

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