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.

It shouldn't come as a big surprise that Campbell's chicken gumbo is not a very good representation.

The ingredient list isn't quite as awful as I expected. There's actually okra in there, but I'd be surprised if it contains file powder. I suspect much of the thickening comes from the modified corn starch.

Perhaps the best use for Campbell's chicken gumbo is to make gumbo burgers, a sloppy joe variant seen mostly in the Midwest.

They're an interesting oddity, but better than I expected.

https://www.campbells.com/recipes/ch...o-sloppy-joes/