Last Week

Last week, we here at What Kris Ate were struck down by the head / chest cold that has been going around. This led to numerous days of being couch and bedridden, and lots of soup. LOTS of soup. So much, in fact, that I've decided to review some of the canned soup that we ate last week, to let you know what's worth buying and what isn't.

The Good
1. Campbell's Soup at Hand: Tomato Parmesan Bisque. I'm not going to lie, I really like this soup. I know it's canned, and has a crapload of sodium in it, but it's amazing. I like it with those really thin, cheese water crackers. The ones they sell in the "gourmet" section of the grocery store.
2. Campbell's Chunky Vegetable Beef. This is not the very best soup ever. But I still like it because it has lots of both of the things in the name: Vegetables and Beef.

The Not-So-Good
1. Campbell's Chicken Noodle. This isn't the condensed one, rather the new kind they have that is pre-made in the microwaveable container. It's pretty watery, and just didn't look to have much flavor.
2. Campbell's Select Harvest Maryland-Style Crab. Also a little watery. J ate the whole bowl, but I thought it looked kind of ick. It's tomato based, which was weird for me, and also didn't appear to have any crab in it. Or even any Krab. Lame.

The Really, Really Bad
1. Progresso Lite Vegetable Beef. Oh my GOD. This soup tastes like nothing. There were not many vegetables, and definitely no beef. Gross.
2. Campbell's Tomato Soup. Hands down, the original, condensed version is my all-time favorite soup, simply for nostalgia reasons. The ready-made microwaveable one? SO BAD. There are big lumps of the condensed stuff in the bottom of the "bowl" and it is almost impossible to stir it all in and make it homogenous. It was just plain bad.

Of course, if we're going to talk about the very best soup I had during my Unfortunate Confinement it was the Broccoli/Cheddar from Panera Bread. But that wasn't canned. Well, it probably was, but it wasn't in a can when it came to me. And it was damn good.