John Lorbal 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 don't know how close it may be to gumbo. I've only had the real
thing or variations made from scratch that were close.