What Campbells Soup VP Says About Their Products and Customers

[UltraBudgie]

Yeah, we use a can of Campbell's condensed Chicken soup for all sorts of sauces and casserole dishes.

As far back as i can remember, even my grandmother did the same.

Apparently Campbell's is all GMO ingredients and frankenfarm meat now, so it would probably be a healthy idea to refactor those recipes.

It makes sense: in late-stage capitalism brand habituation and lock-in become monitizable commodities. Last week when I was at the store buying some premade frozen meal that I feel lazy for resorting to I made a mental note—the brand (Kevins Natural Food) had established itself as a "usually good" option in my experience, therefore now is the point where it will gradually turn to crap, as the price stays the same. Like Amy's did. Like Marie Calendar did. It's a little game they play; good quality until people make it a habit, then slowly turn it to cheap crap to squeeze out every penny until even the densest people notice, then launch a new brand and repeat. There ain't no "Kevin". I know one oldster who will insist on buying "Best Foods" brand mayonnaise, even though it has been garbage for at least 15 years now. That habit was burned into their brain the 80s or 90s, and will likely never change.

[andy06shake]

Apparently Campbell's is all GMO ingredients and frankenfarm meat now, so it would probably be a healthy idea to refactor those recipes.

It makes sense: in late-stage capitalism brand habituation and lock-in become monitizable commodities. Last week when I was at the store buying some premade frozen meal that I feel lazy for resorting to I made a mental note—the brand (Kevins Natural Food) had established itself as a "usually good" option in my experience, therefore now is the point where it will gradually turn to crap, as the price stays the same. Like Amy's did. Like Marie Calendar did. It's a little game they play; good quality until people make it a habit, then slowly turn it to cheap crap to squeeze out every penny until even the densest people notice, then launch a new brand and repeat. There ain't no "Kevin". I know one oldster who will insist on buying "Best Foods" brand mayonnaise, even though it has been garbage for at least 15 years now. That habit was burned into their brain the 80s or 90s, and will likely never change.

You could be right, but it's unlikely based on their European business practices.

Not guaranteed for every single ingredient in the variety. 

But The UK/EU ingredients and GMO-labelling rules are stricter than those in the US.

Certainly don't disagree that late-stage capitalism is where we are all the same.

[sahgwa]

I am on a hearth healthy diet! For a heart-healthy diet, most adults should aim for no more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day! Lol

I aim for 1500 max per day
I think thats still a lot.

[UltraBudgie]

Certainly don't disagree that late-stage capitalism is where we are all the same.

Everything is Cadbury's now.

[Quantum12]

I aim for 1500 max per day
I think thats still a lot.

I try for less too! I had my heart replaced in 2023. My aortic valve froze. It was crazy, the less salt the better! I see people salt everything. I enjoy food much better now without salt.

[Maxmars]

Well... none of this canned stuff is intended (by their own admission) to be a daily food...

And consumers have a tendency to "over do it" in almost every area of consumption.

The fact that it's high in sodium lends itself to more tasty outcomes when used as a starter ingredient.

It is also cheap.

It had the benefit of 'encouraging' my sniffling kids to drink fluids...

maybe it's unhealthy... but then so is everything else.

As a nostalgic treat... I won't be refusing it...

[sahgwa]

I try for less too! I had my heart replaced in 2023. My aortic valve froze. It was crazy, the less salt the better! I see people salt everything. I enjoy food much better now without salt.

what happened if you dont ? was it drug/alcohol related?  diet? genetics? 
thats crazy
youre not old

[DBCowboy]

Have you seen this?   Iconic Campbells soups ... All American brand .... what a Vice President of the company says about the products and about the people who buy them.    

Story Here


The Vice President who made the remarks is now 'on leave' while an investigation at the company is underway.
We switched to Progresso a few  years back.   
I can't eat it ... I can't have gluten ... but my husband eats their clam chowder and tomato soup.

The poors don't even deserve cake.

They just get genetically modified soup.

Campbells Soylent Green

[Quantum12]

what happened if you dont ? was it drug/alcohol related?  diet? genetics? 
thats crazy
youre not old

I am 53, I was born with a bad heart valve. At 33 they wanted to replace it. I waited too long. They replaced it and my heart could not handle a new valve. The worst part was they sawed my sternum to get my heart out. It still hurts! 

The less salt the better!

[argentus]

I have about 12 cans of Campbell's soup in our storage room.   There are many, many more savory and healthy cans of stuff in our emergency supplies, but there are 12 of Campbell's big cans.  Hey, if TSHTF, we'll be glad for the salt.    Have a lot of dehydrated food also.   We learned early on that you don't want to stock up on things that you don't regularly eat.   

A hurricane was headed here about 30 years ago, and I bought a case of Vienna sausages.  After the storm had passed, that was when we learned that Vienna sausages had changed markedly since I was a kid;   when I was a kid, they used to be pink, not gray.   We tried to donate them to the local Rest Home, but they weren't interested.   So, we ate those tasteless little bits of 'parts is parts', and never bought them again.   Do you want some more "not meat"?   No, Sir, thank you.   I don't care for "not meat, it burns on the way out."