If you're having a can of soup...

[SoupDragon]

... do you have a whole can or just half?

I've just noticed that a serving is half a can - Surely that isn't enough? I've been over indulging in soup for years!

It's neither a tin nor a can but a pack!

I’ve never seen that Crosse &Blackwell soup brand before. Will seek it out. Glad they see sense on serving size.

Am somewhat aghast at the poster who thinks that a full tin of soup will “wreck her kidneys and pancreas”. Yes, it can be a bit high in salt but living with that level of health anxiety can’t be pleasant.

I’ve never seen that Crosse &Blackwell soup brand before. Will seek it out. Glad they see sense on serving size.

I think it's a Morrison's one? We certainly get it from there and I've never seen it anywhere else!

Surely both tin and can are just abbreviations of “tin can” (a can made of tin). Neither are wrong and it’s odd to get hot and bothered about it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_and_tin_cans

C&B have that branding in Sainsburys too. To be honest, the only tinned soup I will eat is either Heinz or Sainsburys tomato - the Sainsburys one is much thicker - needs watering down and it's less bitter, i probably prefer it). I'll eat homemade lentil and a few others. DSs only eat Tomato too. Dh will tinned soups whenever he is home at lunchtime, he mainly has baxters but will eat a few supermarket brands. Waitrose do a spicy bean thing he quite likes.

I just had an entire pot of spinach dahl soup from Co-op, with a bread roll. Very nice it was too, I can recommend it. As it was only 39 calories per 100ml, the whole pot was only 234 calories, and with a bread roll, 174 calories, that's 408 and a very nice, filling, comforting lunch without being a diet disaster.

Butternut squash and end of veg box soup for lunch here. Definitely a whole can’s worth.

it’s odd to get hot and bothered about it.

Don't be ridiculous. This is MN. Getting hot and bothered about unimportant stuff is obligatory.

I've just had a cuppa soup and toast for lunch as a direct result of this thread. No time to make proper soup and no tins in the cupboard.

I’m going to have Korean instant noodles in broth for lunch today! I figure it’s pretty much soup...

The Crosse and Blackwell soup was from Ocado, who have seemingly stopped doing Baxter’s.

Surely both tin and can are just abbreviations of “tin can” (a can made of tin) Like taxi cab? Taxi/UK; cab/USA

I have a whole can with bread and butter. Half a can is a few spoons!

@sueelleker

Surely both tin and can are just abbreviations of “tin can” (a can made of tin) Like taxi cab? Taxi/UK; cab/USA

Well. I’m from the U.K. and say Cab, Cab driver, London Cab Driver etc when I mean a Black Hackney Cab. Similarly in New York I wouldn’t yell “Cab”...it would be “TAXI!” and I’ve never heard of them referred to as “yellow cabs” just “yellow taxis”. In my hometown in wales we have several taxi/cab firms - some called “Alpha Taxis” for example and others called “Reliant Cabs”. So that US/U.K. example doesn’t really work for me, sorry.

I’ve returned to the thread and whist only on page 11, I am still flummoxed that everybody has followed suit and called it a can 🤣🤣🤣🤣

OP, I think I deserve to share some of the thread glory for pointing this out, it’s made me laugh tenfold and I had soup today for the first time in absolute years because it’s taking over my brain (I didn’t have it out of a tin though, as it came in some fancy cardboard pot thing!)

That last post was in response to @Keeping2ChevronsApart

In fact I’ve just realised my friend refers to her husband as a “cabby” as well as a Taxi Driver and “being on the cabs” so I really don’t think it can be said to be an American thing.

A whole can - 204 calories for a meal is very low. Chuck in a slice of bread and it's still only 300.

@ProudAuntie76 I don’t think anybody has got hot and bothered about it have they? my I initial response was most certainly faux shock....

@ProudAuntie76 well we have black cabs here in London so I'm sure the phrase started here. Taxis are the ones you call to book, cabs and the ones you hail and then you have the delightful Uber.

@PattyPan

Are you my DP? He’s been known to eat a whole baguette in that manner grin and is also underweight

Yes, it's me, darling! How's your day going? xx

@WaxOnFeckOff

Is it a tin or a can?
Cans (or tin cans) come from the United States. Tins come from the UK. However, if cans are imported into the UK from the US, they become tins. Conversely, if a tin is imported into the US from the UK, it becomes a can

I was mesmerised reading this, although it's very straightforward.

[quote CorianderLord]@ProudAuntie76 well we have black cabs here in London so I'm sure the phrase started here. Taxis are the ones you call to book, cabs and the ones you hail and then you have the delightful Uber. [/quote]
But the black cabs all wait in the taxi rank outside the station 🤔 whilst the drivers are drinking soup

I honestly don’t know if I use tin or can.
I know I would use can for a drink and that I would say tinned soup rather than canned soup but I don’t know if I would call it a tin or a can.

Isn't the process called 'canning'?
That's why I say 'can'.
It may have been originally made from tin?