Monday, December 29, 2008
Stranger Suggests Today The Stranger Suggests
Posted by The Stranger on Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Chow
Soup!
Apparently, some among you have never eaten Campbell's alphabet
soup. Are you people Communists? ALIENS? True, it does contain
high-fructose corn syrup and MSG, but it also contains letters (40
percent more as of 2002). Eating letters makes you smarter.
Eating your beloved's initials makes them fall in love with you. Make
it with organic whole milk (three-fourths of a can instead of a full
one). Warm it slowly, stirring occasionally, then grate some good
Parm or cheddar onto it. If you've got homemade croutons, now is
the time. Welcome to America. (Campbell's Vegetable "The Alphabet"
Soup, $1.69, a store near you.)
BETHANY JEAN CLEMENT
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If you've got the inclination to cook and have gone to the trouble of having home-made croutons on hand, the old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe in the Joy of Cooking gives a very similar (and superior) flavor, without the corn syrup and MSG.
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Someone from freecycle-seattle group posted this on Friday:
Offered: half a family sized can of Campbell's aphabet soup. (Ballard) Got all the letters I needed from half a can and refrigerated the rest. Still totally good!
Possibly as a snark-response to this:
OFFERED: Flavor packets from ramen noodles (Capitol Hill)
6 flavor/seasoning packets from ramen noodles - 3 chicken, 3 beef. In your reply, please tell me when you'd like to pick up. I am fairly flexible with day or evening pick ups.
Sorry for cross-posting.
Offered: half a family sized can of Campbell's aphabet soup. (Ballard) Got all the letters I needed from half a can and refrigerated the rest. Still totally good!
Possibly as a snark-response to this:
OFFERED: Flavor packets from ramen noodles (Capitol Hill)
6 flavor/seasoning packets from ramen noodles - 3 chicken, 3 beef. In your reply, please tell me when you'd like to pick up. I am fairly flexible with day or evening pick ups.
Sorry for cross-posting.
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so ---- this what we have come to ----- I think I am wasting daylight
for canned soup, go Progresso, buy on sale in only your fav. kinds
Good cheese in shitty soup - god - what a cook
(sour cream on sale, better use, don't need the milk either)
for canned soup, go Progresso, buy on sale in only your fav. kinds
Good cheese in shitty soup - god - what a cook
(sour cream on sale, better use, don't need the milk either)
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Does this "eating letters makes you smarter" concept extend to Alpha-Bits with Marshmallows? Oh dear god I hope so.
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All right, I'll 'fess: I'm a communist. Now will someone please tell me if there is, say, the same quantity of the letter z produced as the letter e? Or does Campbell's take a more Scrabble-like approach and only produce a few z's and a boatload of e's?
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Marcie, Amy's makes a vegan alphabet soup. I think I remember seeing it at Madison Market but I'm not 100% sure. It's got to be about a billion times better than Campbell's - gross.
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Oh yeah - and veganism isn't gross at all. Not if you're into nasty, stinky people with flat asses and skanky hair.
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@8. No, they do not, which was a constant source of frustration for me when I was a kid. My last name starts with a "z", and I always had trouble spelling it with any food product that contained letters.
My first name has a "y" in it, too - another tough one to find in alphabet-related food.
My first name has a "y" in it, too - another tough one to find in alphabet-related food.
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@9:
Chop: 1 onion, 2 carrots, 2 stalks celery. Sautee onion in olive oil in large pot. Add small spoonful of garlic. Add carrots and celery and cook for 1-2 minutes. I like barley instead of alphabet pasta, so add 1/3 cup of pearl barley and lightly toast. Add 1 small can of organic no-sugar-added tomato paste and lightly caramelize. Add 1 can veggie broth and 3-4 cups hot water, plus any other vegetables you like (I add mushrooms, frozen peas, chopped green beans diced tomatoes, sometimes some zucchini or finely chopped kale). Salt and pepper to taste. Cook on low boil for about an hour or until barley is done. I tend to boil it longer to reduce the water and get a more concentrated flavor. I eat this soup all the time - it makes quite a bit that you can refrigerate or freeze. Totally veggie, nutritious, delicious.
Chop: 1 onion, 2 carrots, 2 stalks celery. Sautee onion in olive oil in large pot. Add small spoonful of garlic. Add carrots and celery and cook for 1-2 minutes. I like barley instead of alphabet pasta, so add 1/3 cup of pearl barley and lightly toast. Add 1 small can of organic no-sugar-added tomato paste and lightly caramelize. Add 1 can veggie broth and 3-4 cups hot water, plus any other vegetables you like (I add mushrooms, frozen peas, chopped green beans diced tomatoes, sometimes some zucchini or finely chopped kale). Salt and pepper to taste. Cook on low boil for about an hour or until barley is done. I tend to boil it longer to reduce the water and get a more concentrated flavor. I eat this soup all the time - it makes quite a bit that you can refrigerate or freeze. Totally veggie, nutritious, delicious.
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Sure, you COULD spend twice as much on all that crap to make some soup that takes a few hours to cook, or you could just buy a can, open it up, and heat it. Yum!
Whatever you do, you're gonna die. Why worry about dumb stuff like this?
Whatever you do, you're gonna die. Why worry about dumb stuff like this?
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