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1.11.04

progress - o.

I usually stick with the minestrone, the tomato. Clam chowder. French onion. But it gets boring. and, as it turns out, progresso's italian wedding soup is better than many other meat-and-noodle types in the actual meat and noodle departments. Canned chicken soup is always a little rubbery, a little gristley or oddly sponge-like when it comes right down to the chicken; beef stews are always, always, always fat. The funny little meatballs aren't gristley or sponge-like, and are about as far from rubbery as it's possible to get. There's probably plenty of fat in them, but it's a little less obvious, and not in such big, chewy lumps, and so, better. I can never handle canned chicken soup because of the chicken. Beef soup only in emergencies. But i'd never tried a meatball soup before. The carrots are - perfectly normal canned-soup carrots, a little squishy, results are absolutely typical. Salty, but canned soup always is. Noodles are little mini-macaronis, and are smushy, nicely dense, that you can tell you're eating a noodle when you're eating a noodle. Got some funny little green bits that might be basil or might be spinach; they seem harmless enough. Maybe just to make things interesting. Also plenty of stuff in it, as opposed to the soups that are all broth and no ... stuff. A well-packed bowl rather than something thinly watery that leaves you still wanting real food afterwards.

But.

It's the consistency where it falls short. And by consistency i'm sure i don't mean between this can and the other - i mean the consistency of the actual broth. The weird, murky, thickly oily viscosity of it. Sort of gummy. Very slow-moving in the spoon. Reminiscient of a high-quality cough syrup. It's not globby at all (aw, fuck, is mucilaginous not the most disgusting word ever? maybe after smegma?) ... but this heaviness. Like they had to puree a little bit of Elmer's only didn't really get there. And it's very stick-to-your-bones stuff - for a reason. And the glorpiness isn't quite enough reason to never buy it again; it's a perfectly good soup, and if i don't look at it - or maybe if i water it down just a little? it's fine; it tastes good, the noodles and the meatballs and the carrots and the funny little green bits are pretty well done; it's not disgustingly salty like some are; buying it doesn't make me feel like i'm five. So i'm going to have it again, yes. Just ... when it's already a lot colder, and i'm way more in a soupy place.

Heats up quick, though.

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