OT - Nagging doubts re tomato soup - was, Re: SC - American sugar consumption

[Sue Clemenger]

Yeah, and it used to come out of the can pretty solid, too...you had to
use a fork to combine it with the can of water.  Now, it's just sort of
gloppy...
- --Maire, Unrepentant Tomato Soup Lover (especially with saltines and
cheese in it....uhmmmmmm....perfect childhood comfort food)

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>  
> Now, can anybody who would bother to retain memories on such a matter,
> tell me if they remember canned tomato soup, especially Campbell's (you
> know, the company in NEW JERSEY who own Pace foods, the famous _Texas_
> salsa people) being significantly redder and less creamy than it
> currently is, say, 20 years ago? Please understand that by using the
> word  "creamy", I am not necessarily implying the presence of cream.
> It's just that I had occasion to look at Campbell's tomato soup fairly
> recently, and was confused by the fact that this appeared to be Cream of
> Tomato soup, while the label read simply, "Tomato Soup", and this looked
> considerably different from the product I remembered from my childhood.
> Can anybody state whether there has been a formula change, or am I
> imagining things, or what?