The Broccoli Cheese Disaster

I'm a big fan of marketing/advertising. I like to look at the labels of products and decide whether I am going to buy them or not. If a trashcan says it has 30% more trashbags, I will look at the old box of trashbags and compare it with the new to make sure there are more trashbags in the new container. If the french fries on the outside of the bag are short and soggy, I'm not buying them, but if they are golden brown, good length, and hot from the fryer, I am more likely to buy them. No matter when or where I see the Ocean Spray wave, I want to catch it. I am immediately thirsty. I love their Ruby Red Graperfruit juice, and I will not accept substitutes.

Now to my story. I was in the Safeway that I swore I wouldn't go to again shopping for a few items. Safeway has had a big promotion for their Signature Soup line. There has been a commercial on tv lately where a lady is in a fancy restaurant eating soup. She tells the waiter that her husband will be home soon, and orders him a bowl as well. The soup is fajita chicken corn chowder. The commercial makes you think that the soup is so good you will think you are in a fancy restaurant. So, I picked up two containers. I was lured into getting the fajita chicken chowder (excellent!), and the broccoli and cheese soup (disgusting!). The fajita soup was SO good. I'm glad that I made that decision.

The broccoli soup is probably one of the most disgusting things I have eaten in a long time. The soup tasted like a bad cheese sauce mixed with a little bit of broccoli and it just tasted awful. I burned my tongue, and the absolute worst thing that could ever happen after eating this soup is that there is a piece of broccoli in my teeth. I ate the entire bowl because 1) I was hungry and 2) I wanted to keep giving it chances to be good. Neither worked, and I will not be eating that soup again. I made broccoli and cheese soup two winters ago, and it turned out great. I don't cook often, so when I do make something new, and it tastes better than something pre-made, you know Safeway really missed the mark. The saddest part of all of this is that my breath tastes like I just licked the inside of a city trashcan. This is a taste I will never forget. Yankeebob...listerine strips...please....!!!