That Crap We Feed the Kids

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        Have you seen that Progresso Soup commercial where a couple has just finished cleaning out the garage after sending their last child off to college? It follows the usual course of Progresso commercials: A person exerts themselves then decides to have some soup to replenish. (I know after exhausting myself the first thing I always want is a nice hot bowl of flavored water.) They go to the kitchen, grab a can of Campbell's Soup, and begin warming it up only to have some smirking fool see it and berate them for eating a "children's soup." Some typical lines are "We're not kids anymore," or "What are you? Five?!"

        True to form, the husband goes inside, gets down some Campbell's Soup, and begins preparing it, only to have his wife come in and patronizingly say, "Honey, the kids are gone!"

        Yep, we adults eat Progresso.

        Despite seeing these commercials for years, it wasn't till this one that the true message came flying out at me. "What are you doing with that crap we feed the kids? Get down the good stuff!!"

        So, gentle reader, allow me to let you down easy with a little home truth: If you ate Campbell's Soup as a child -- your parents hate you.

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Now I know what's wrong with me!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's always bothered me for a completely different reason. It's a classic apples to oranges comparison. Progresso is eaten right out of the can. You do not add water. They are comparing it to Campbell's condensed product, which you add a whole can of water too. Campbell's has a whole line of soups that you don't add water too, and they are quite good.

Another annoying thing Progresso does is push sales on some flavors of soup while not others. I know enough of the grocery business to know it's not the stores doing this on their own. They will put their cheapest flavors on sale, hoping you will grab up some of the nearby super-premium soups too.

The whole routine about feeding your kids crap and keeping the good stuff for yourself just adds insult to injury. Boycott these guys, unless you particularly enjoy deceptive advertising and marketting practices.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would have been lucky to get canned soup as a kid. To quote the Late Redd Foxx, we were so poor, if I hadn't a been a boy I'd had nuthin' to play with.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
....well, I guess that makes sense now....apparently if you're a child you can't have good things to eat, but the adults get the good stuff, huh?....Oh well, I guess that's life...(I wonder what they do with the leftover Campbell's soup...probably donate it to some poor kids whose parents also hate them...lol)

~Zoo
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
What are you, FIVE ?

Wife reaches over fridge, behind cookbooks, pulls out a bottle of Johnny Walker.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Love the article. I can't resist though since we are on the subject of annoying commercials. The new wendys one bugs the hell out of me. We have a man ranting on about chicken sandwichs, and alls everyone ever asks is " Are you with Wendy's". How about "Are you fucking stupid?" One would think that the spokesperson for wendy's would be a pothead not some middle-aged man.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I had no idea some people could get so passionate over soup. (Did Jackie Mason just visit my blog?)

What are you, FIVE ?

Wife reaches over fridge, behind cookbooks, pulls out a bottle of Johnny Walker.


Very good. I always wondered where Ma kept the good stuff.

I can't resist though since we are on the subject of annoying commercials. The new wendys one bugs the hell out of me.


I find those annoying too. I really can't imagine what they were thinking. With the exception of Jack in the Box, fast food advertising is at an industry wide ebb.

The ad I find downright disturbing is Burger King's "Wake Up with the King" spot. A man wakes up in the morning only to find a bizarre representation of "the King" laying in bed next to him. It's a guy dressed in the Burger King costume but with some kind of molded metal face and head that looks like a Christmas tin designed by John Wayne Gacy. The king puts up his hands and gestures like Cool it, dude. Just wait a sec, I've got something for you. Then he reaches over for a Burger King breakfast sandwich on a little silver platter. The man eats it approvingly.

If I woke up to that I'd beat the King to death. I sure wouldn't accept some food from him -- unless I wanted to wake up days later naked and with a strange ache in my nether regions.

Frankly I find the ad scarier than the last few Stephen King movies. Maybe I should go add it to the thread on suggested Horror film viewing.