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Do you have alfredo in a can? Well, let him out!
So, hourglasscreate makes a post to the cooking community which includes a recipe for "Easy Fettucine Alfredo" which she supposedly got off of a Campbell's Soup can. This does not go over well.

ETA: Aaaand the second link has gone bye-bye. Now how will I find a recipe for boiled water? ;_;

ANOTHER ETA: She's wanking it up again in a whole new post! This time, it's about "sloppy joes".

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issendai
2009-03-05 03:32 am UTC (link)

It is the way of my people to base all food on Campbells cream of mushroom soup even when we're feeling perfectly fine. ESPECIALLY when we're feeling fine. Topping of fried onion bits in a can non-negotiable, side dish of lime Jello embedded with carrot shavings also non-negotiable (but you can take a little and hide it under the casserole scraps if you really don't want to eat it).

This goes a long way toward explaining the food snobbery re: cream-of soups.

Oddly, my very non-snobbish mother has stopped cooking with Campbells and onion bits. She gets her prefab food from a store where you assemble the dish yourself and freeze it, instead. It's tasty, takes almost no time, and costs a fortune; so apparently the deciding factor wasn't that it is the way of my people to love Campbell's, so much as that it is the way of my people to be overworked and uninspired by cooking, and anything that takes fewer than four steps to make is a godsend.

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	frequentmouse 2009-03-05 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, gawd, the prepackaged dinner places. All the social exposure of going out to dinner and you still have to clean your own kitchen at the end of the meal. How is that an advantage? Not to mention that what keeps me from cooking these days is the pain of standing up and using my hands; at least in my own house I can do veg prep sitting at the computer. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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