Isn’t “success” a relative concept? I’m not clear there are any big-selling high end soups out there, in cans or pouches or even glass. Does any other brand of such a product significantly outsell Campbell’s Yes line for example? I don’t know.
What defines high end soups?
Ones you don’t have to add liquid to?
Certainly not adding liquid defines “more expensive”
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Interesting!
Well, when some jarred soups cost $12 or $13 of $14 a piece, as some do, to me that’s a niche market. Rao’s has jarred soups that are certainly more costly than Campbell’s red cans. I guess they’re successful if they don’t lose money.
This wasn’t expensive, but it’s one of the pouch soups Campbells discontinued.
Collard & Bowser butterscotch was a casualty of the contraction of the UK’s traditional confectionary industry. I still miss it!
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It’s been ages since I saw LifeSavers Butter Rum or Tropical Fruits.
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Safeway has a pretty large variety of refrigerated soups in the deli which I quite like.
https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.960094560.html
As for the pantry… I keep a number of cans of Progresso which I doctor a bit before serving.
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Chickarina had all but disappeared a few years ago. It came back it’s very doctorable
They used to be a check stand impulse item, other candies, more expensive? replaced them. They maybe on the candy aisle, but in bags, also try the convenience stores for rolls.
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Choc-O-Mint Lifesavers!
But plenty else. All ingredients that were in use when we were young have been replaced by more chemically-derived ones. Remember when snack cakes (like Drake’s) had LARD as shortening?
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I know Target still carries the tropical fruit. A quick search reveals I can pick up bags of butter rum at my local Wawa or Walmart if I ever actually went to Walmart.
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Most definitely. It tasted right but it look wrong, so it went the way of the dodo.
I kind of miss Crystal Pepsi, (along with six other people.)
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I miss my bacon soda.
I used to be a fan of their tomato-basil bisque. It is hard to find and it seems they are fazing out the soup case since the Albertson’s merger. I have never seen the lobster soup there. The Albertson’s is about 24 miles away from our Safeway. The next time I’m over there, I’ll check that out.
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Both sizes are in stock at our local Safeway (which is in a pretty small town)…
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Choc-O-Mint Lifesavers!
But plenty else. All ingredients that were in use when we were young have been replaced by more chemically-derived ones. Remember when snack cakes (like Drake’s) had LARD as shortening?
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Sure. That’s one reason they were never allowed in my kosher house (along with Oreos), and why I didn’t try them until my HS cafeteria started carrying them.
