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To think that tinned soups are just the skanky bits/byproducts of other things

43 replies

1988TBT · 09/11/2021 12:26

Just thinking…sat here having my tin of minestrone for lunch (which I am quite enjoying)

And yesterday I had Heinz big soup chicken and veg…

I’m not complaining per se as I quite like them but… they honestly just look like the crappy dregs of veg and meat that are fit for nothing apart from disguising in a salty sauce. Definitely byproducts of other things that are sold extra cheap.

I’m sure the tin can and label probably costs more to manufacture than the product!

I often make my own soup but sometimes lack of time/life just doesn’t allow.

It made me think… what other food beauty/products are we being conned by.

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Whatwouldscullydo · 09/11/2021 12:30

Well that's true of most processed /please food isn't it?

That's why it's not really good for you to eat too much of it.

Raising animals is expensive of course they use every last aspect of the animal. Hence mince,.salami,.ham, sausages etc

ParkheadParadise · 09/11/2021 12:32

Can't beat Heinz Tomato Soup and thick-sliced plain bread to dip in😉

TheWernethWife · 09/11/2021 12:33

Can't beat Heinz Tomato Soup

Best soup in the world

Dollywilde · 09/11/2021 12:36

To be fair, when I make my own stock (which usually forms the base of homemade soup) it's exactly that - I'm not wasting nice chicken breasts in it, it's the carcass of the chicken and all the gross bits I'm not prepared to eat Grin. So I can't get too grumpy about the food company using it too!

Brefugee · 09/11/2021 12:37

so what? we should have food waste?
it makes sense for everything to be used up. On the foodbank thread the other day someone was saying "don't buy tinned chopped tomatoes, they're only the ones with the bad bits cut off" and that is EXACTLY why we should be buying them.

Food standards are very high so aside of the high salt, etc, in processed food, there shouldn't be any worry about eating them.

People have lost the knack of being able to tell if food is off or not, or of cutting the bad bits off potatoes and fruit and using the rest. It's a massive scandal, tbh, one of the biggest of our times.

IpanemaPeaHen · 09/11/2021 12:43

I get what you mean, but I make ‘clear out fridge soup’ most weeks with any wonky bendy leftover veg and a tin of beans thrown in.

Hobbesmanc · 09/11/2021 12:53

I love making home made soup- its dead easy. Our family favourite is fridge bottom broth- which is basically anything that's past its best thrown in the stockpot. I'd rarely throw out anything that can' have the black or slimy bits cut off

Zilla1 · 09/11/2021 12:58

Not sure the vegetables' point is valid.

Regarding your point about the can and label, In England, I did see some material that I think said that everyone involved in manufacturing a loaf of bread, including bag, plastic twist, baker and distribution all received more value than the farmer who grew the wheat.

suspiria777 · 09/11/2021 13:11

Baby carrots are a scam

Mybalconyiscracking · 09/11/2021 13:16

You need to buy Baxters

CounsellorTroi · 09/11/2021 13:22

I buy fresh soup from the chiller cabinet. Tinned soups are frighteningly high in salt - it’s used as a preservative. I never buy soup with meat in either.

cobblers123 · 09/11/2021 13:45

I usually keep a couple of tins in the cupboard, in case I fancy a bowl of soup but never, ever Heinz or any other plain tomato soup. I find them so sweet they put my teeth on edge.

I like most of the other flavours though.

Newgirls · 09/11/2021 13:55

Meat in soup isn’t going to be the best quality is it. Veg prob ok.

Cans are the easiest to recycle compared to tetrapaks and plastic cartons - even those don’t always end up recycled due to too much plastic. Making our own as much as pos is best really

BackBackBack · 09/11/2021 14:14

Love tinned soup - have just had some lentil for lunch.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 09/11/2021 14:17

@Newgirls

Meat in soup isn’t going to be the best quality is it. Veg prob ok.

Cans are the easiest to recycle compared to tetrapaks and plastic cartons - even those don’t always end up recycled due to too much plastic. Making our own as much as pos is best really

That goes without saying really doesn't it. But people still have to say it. Not everyone has time or can make their own soup.
MintJulia · 09/11/2021 14:22

Do you really think the factory has time to source 'skanky bits of vegetables' when they can buy category 2 veg, those that aren't a perfect shape but are completely wholesome, for very little?

I don't think you understand manufacturing supply chains.

mininionsteve · 09/11/2021 14:23

Not the point of the thread I know, but i watched a manufacturing program that said tinned soup and "fresh" soup is the same soup just in different packaging.

ProudMaiasaura · 09/11/2021 14:25

I was recently given a few tins of soup by a family member that can no longer eat. I haven't eaten tinned soup for a while but I couldn't get over how salty it was when I had some last night Heinz if it's relevant

I don't mind that soup is generally the "don't waste it" part of the food chain - frankly that's normally what it is in this house anyway, but rather disappointed by how salty it was. I'm sure I have less salt on a chip shop takeaway!

bestcattoyintheworld · 09/11/2021 14:27

I'll only eat Heinz Tomato soup. All other tinned soups are just salty, slimy gloop.

CornishGem1975 · 09/11/2021 14:31

Can't say it bothers me, would rather they use stuff up than result in more food waste.

I mean, isn't that what soup is anyway? I know if I make soup it's a 'use up' situation.

Forgetmenot37 · 09/11/2021 14:34

This thread is breaking my heart. I was really unwell yesterday due to a reaction with my meds that also ruin taste.

And my fave Heinz tomato soup tasted like nail polish remover Sad absolutely gutted!!

I was so shocked I took a covid test. Negative of course.

I couldn’t eat it but DH enjoyed it SadGrin

Vates · 09/11/2021 14:53

I actually prefer happy shopper and asda brand tomato soup to heinz.

Mosky · 09/11/2021 14:56

This is why I would never have a soup with meat in it. Any old veg is fine, meat scraped up off the floor or "mechanically recovered" - no thank you.

thelegohooverer · 09/11/2021 14:59

@Dollywilde

To be fair, when I make my own stock (which usually forms the base of homemade soup) it's exactly that - I'm not wasting nice chicken breasts in it, it's the carcass of the chicken and all the gross bits I'm not prepared to eat Grin. So I can't get too grumpy about the food company using it too!
I’m not sure why I don’t mind eating food I’ve cooked from my own rubbish but I’m queasy at the thought of a food company doing the same.
1forAll74 · 09/11/2021 15:05

Talking about bits of rubbish in soup. I used to consume a lot of beef and vegetable soup, made by Crosse and Blackwell, dont know if they excist now. I heated some of the soup up one day, and there were three, two inch long stick looking things in the soup.. It turned out they were yard brush bristles... I sent two of the bristles back to the factory place. and kept the other for reference..

Two weeks later.I received this quite large box of their products, as in about 8 tins of other soup, and a few more of their different products. They apologised for the bristles in the soup, but gave no explanation of how the bristles got into the soup,

I also found a dead wasp in an unsliced loaf of bread once.

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