Mmm Mmm Good

Yesterday I had stopped at the local Rite-Aide to look for anniversary cards—I could not believe the drugstore did not have any cards but they did have a sale on Campbell soup. Not Campbell condensed in a can soup but the soup in the small micro-wave able bowel(DO NOT ADD WATER). The soups were four bowels for five dollars. They made it look like a sale with big signs reading “Special purchase!” Four for Five. The soup and containers are convenient. I scooped up for soups, chicken noodle X 2 and tomato 2 and headed back to the office. I had a chicken noodle when I got back and today I had a tomato. As I ate my sup I started doing the math- This was one good sized serving for $1.25. If I am vigilant I can some times get Campbell’s for 85 cents a can the same with the Chicken noodle. If I am really luck I can get the soups even cheaper if I buy the soup by the case. The soup is condensed and after you add the can of water the recipe on the can calls for you have two servings at least. As I kept pondering the price of the soup and trying not to suffer too deeply from ‘buyer’s remorse’ I kept returning to my argument of convenience: a self contained bowel of nutritious, delicious soup just waiting to be nuked—no fiddling round with a can opener, having to find a water supply or heating elements. One bowel just right for lunch, throw it in the backpack with a sandwich and there you go: a perfect lunch. No dishes to do after, and cute little bowels if you desire to wash and keep the receptables. I thought what would be just to cute would be to use the bowels as planters to start your tomato and other ‘early start’ plants for the garden.

I found about half a sack of saltines, pretty mashed up on the back of the counter. I shook the loose crumbs into my soup and hurridly fished the crumbs out with the soup into my mouth. There is nothing like fresh saltines and tomato soup. If I do not have crumbs for my soup I will just drop one cracker into the soup at a time or some times I will ‘loosely’ crumble up one cracker per spoon of soup I like my soup and crackers this way. No, my brother Ross, her was a tomato soup aficionado. Ross really knew how to eat his Campbell’s soup. He would take a whole row of crackers, as saltines come the long rows. He would get these crackers and pulverize them into his soup. He would ,do this till his soup had the consistency of oatmeal mush—with a crunch. I have never done myself. I just cannot bring my self to use that many crackers at once—maybe this is my conservative side coming out. Maybe I would gag on this many crackers munching up my soup or maybe I just like a little liquid with my crunch.

So no buyer’s remorse, I am set with a small stock of soup sitting in the bottom of my desk drawer waiting for that rainy day.