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You're meant to add water to Campbells soup?!

18 replies

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 26/10/2020 22:15

What?! I’ve just been eating condensed soup all this time?! I thought it was just super thick soup

I am shocked!

I’m not the only one right?!Grin

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bloodywhitecat · 26/10/2020 22:16

Yes, it's condensed so it needs water added (or not in your case!).

DramaAlpaca · 26/10/2020 22:17

Umm, it does say so on the tin.... Grin

Pipandmum · 26/10/2020 22:18

For the tomato I add half milk half water - yum.

CatPeach · 26/10/2020 22:18

I haven’t eaten Campbell’s soup for a long time, but definitely never added water before!

HirplesWithHaggis · 26/10/2020 22:20

I add half and half milk and water, unless I'm bunging it on top of leftover cooked chicken and calling it chicken supreme.

AriettyHomily · 26/10/2020 22:22

I only ever use it as a sauce and cud dilute with water or milk. I've never eaten it as an actual soup!

ColleagueFromMars · 26/10/2020 22:22

It's Campbell's Condensed Soup you plonker 🤣

BashfulClam · 26/10/2020 22:23

The mushroom one added to tagliatelle with some chopped bacon and mushrooms is lovely. As it’s so thick it works really well as a sauce .

Belfastian · 26/10/2020 22:27

If it's any consolation I was the opposite and for years added a tin of water to all soups because I thought they were all condensed 🤣🤣 pure avoided Heinz for years because I thought it was awful watery piss!

purplecorkheart · 26/10/2020 22:30

I normally just throw it into chicken and broccolli bake so to be honest never read the label. Planning to pick up a can for lunch tomorrow after reading a different thread today.

MovingSwiftlyOn · 26/10/2020 22:32

Oh wow! I thought they had been discontinued. I haven't seen it in either of my local supermarkets for years. Cream of mushroom mixed with finely chopped cooked in butter mushrooms and dolloped into mini vol au vent cases was a regular item on my Boxing Day buffet menu (I'm very old!) Grin

plinkplinkfizzer · 26/10/2020 22:33

I only ever used this for cooking when first married ( learning ) . Soon ditched it . It's not that good .

mumwon · 26/10/2020 22:41

@MovingSwiftlyOn
vol au vents - memories - i use to do curried eggs or prawns in thousand island in them - I could resurrect this idea!!! its so old it could be fashionable again like prawns cocktails!

Smellbellina · 26/10/2020 22:42

I just put it in quiche

Frdd · 26/10/2020 22:42

You used to get recipes on the back of them.

Add milk or water. That’s why they call it condensed ....

Torvean32 · 27/10/2020 01:56

When i was at Uni pasta with condensed chicken soup was the first meals i learned to cook. Still make it occasionally.

TimWasMeanToMe · 27/10/2020 02:07

@Belfastian
If it's any consolation I was the opposite and for years added a tin of water to all soups because I thought they were all condensed 🤣🤣 pure avoided Heinz for years because I thought it was awful watery piss!

This is brilliant! I love the idea of you repeatedly adding water to Heinz tomato soup whilst at the same time complaining about it. (Can imagine doing similar Grin)

BarbaraofSeville · 27/10/2020 06:32

I remember when my cousin got her own house, she didn't know that trifle took a while to make because you have to wait for the jelly to set and the custard to cool.

We were almost ready to sit down for Sunday lunch and she waved the Bird's trifle box at us and said 'shall I just quickly do this for afters'? We weren't planning to be there for several hours it would have taken for it to be ready to eat.

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