Cream of Mushroom Soup - Blessing or Abomination?

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[Phoenix61]

1. Abomination nt

[Anon-C]

4. Add black pepper, cayenne pepper, fresh parsley, and dash of lemon and you could do worse nt

[tymorial]

2. I use it all the time in casseroles

I wouldn't eat it as soup though.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. I use cream of mushroom or celery soup as a sauce or gravy...

I always add a dash or two of Kitchen Bouquet to give the sauce a brownish color.

[dchill]

3. It's primarily a recipe ingredient.

Like cheap bourbon, I can't take it straight.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. A BOMB Ination! Hate it.

I like my cream of carrot, or squash, or cauliflower soups a lot (easy, homemade from scratch, slight variations of each other). Carrot has a hint of orange, squash and cauliflower of curry (use of garam masala)

[First Speaker]

6. overwhelming blessing...

...with rice and hamburger and mushrooms, it's the greatest easy, cheap meal in the universe...

[DinahMoeHum]

7. I use it for cooking, not as a soup to eat.

n/t

[shenmue]

8. Horrible

[emulatorloo]

10. I think theyve changed the formula. It is awful now. N/T

[procon]

27. I think so too.

If I have time, I'll make my own white sauce, but those condensed soups are very useful when I need cheap, fast menu ideas. Cream of Mushroom soup used to at least taste like mushrooms, but now it's just congealed goop, bland and tasteless. Cream of Celery and Chicken still taste the same, so I substitute those.

[emulatorloo]

30. Thanks for the tip!

[Nay]

31. Thank you. The formulation has most certainly been changed -- it tastes totally different

now. I used to eat it regularly as a young adult; about 15 years ago I ate some and had to throw it out, it tasted so horrible.

The same thing happened with Kraft boxed mac and cheese -- for many years, a favorite meal was that plus tuna. Then in the past few years, it changed and is now inedible. Even to young adults like my son and his child -- they can't eat it now, either.

[LuvLoogie]

11. White pepper, thyme and sherry.

You can always go with Progresso, too.

Making your own mushroom soup is a pain in the ass, when you just need something hot and filling for lunch on the fly.

It has its place. I love good food and fine dining, but I will also eat a pizza puff or a paper-wrapped, cornmeal tamale.

I ain't no snob, and I WILL survive the zombie apocolypse.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. My mother's favorite cartoon showed ssome witches stirring a bubbling cauldron and

chanting "Hair of frog, eye of newt, can of cream of mushroom soup . . ".

[MaryMagdaline]

13. Blessing

One of my favorite dishes as a child was chicken casserole made with cream of mushroom and cream of celery. Loved it until I was old enough to make it. Cutting raw chicken revolted me. Could not look at any of the ingredients the same after that. But still have to say chicken casserole with cream of mushroom was a pleasant meal for many years. Good cold weather food.

[samnsara]

14. an Abomination although I will use it as an ingredient but NEVER

..in GREEN BEAN CASSAROLE

[TomSlick]

15. It's in my wife's chicken and rice dish.

You would slap your momma for the stuff.

[Shrike47]

16. Abomination. Of course, I do not eat mushrooms in any form.

My older brother convinced me they were poisonous when I was little and I just don’t eat them if I can avoid them. God knows why I believed him, he also said spaghetti was made out of gopher guts.

[Generic Brad]

17. Blessing!

I originate from Minnesota. It is the native food.

[msongs]

18. one supects it is mostly thickeners and fillers and chemicals nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. You can use it to make a lot of things but I don't like it straight.

[diva77]

20. Supreme Abomination!! It has that chameleonic quality of masquerading as either

puke or phlegm or poop (of the diarrhea variety)...but certainly NOT as food!!! Noooooooo!!

(sorry if I offended anyone!!)

[Laffy Kat]

21. Throw it in a crockpot with a post roast (braised), wait four hours...

Roast beef and a rich gravy for your mashed potatoes. My kids loved it.

[Fla Dem]

22. I absolutely love a good bowl of mushroom soup. In fact love almost all cream soups.

[demmiblue]

23. I don't think I have ever bought/used it.

Seems really nasty to me.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. It makes great fake vomit

[hurl]

25. Big-time blessing!

I love it as an ingredient or standalone... Surprised at all the negative reactions, but that means more for me.

If you like it as a soup, Amy's makes a mushroom bisque you might like even better....

[C_U_L8R]

26. Make your own

Delish and so good for you. Better yet, skip the dairy with cashew cream. Good as sauce or soup.

[Freddie]

28. I hate mushrooms

But you can sub cream of celery in any recipe calling for the fungus stuff. I make the obligatory holiday green bean casserole with cream of celery, sublime. My daughter who actually likes mushrooms makes hers with cream of celery also.

[hermetic]

29. Love it!

Though I quit Campbell's many years ago when their prices went through the roof. I have found decent generic brands of mushroom soup, one of which I used last night in the crock pot with sirloin pork chops, some dried onion soup, and veggie broth all cooked up and served over egg noodles along with a caesar salad. Delish!

[red dog 1]

32. Used to love it, now I don't

I used to come home from grammar school & make a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup for myself...I loved it.

One day, I decided to make TWO cans of the stuff..and I got very sick!

Since then....."Abomination"

[Retrograde]

33. Haven't used it since

I learned how to make a white sauce - now I use that along with fresh mushrooms and maybe some cream. Used to use it a lot for casseroles, but white sauces have taken over there as well.

[BlueDog22]

34. Dislike It

[ailsagirl]

35. Like it... once in awhile

Good for tuna casserole

[irisblue]

36. I make my own from scratch. Easy, maybe 30 min cooking time, occasional stir

5-10 min to slice mushrooms. Very adjustable.
It will keep in the fridge for 4-5 days, but it never lasts that long. I have used this for tuna casserole & as a base for chicken & rice.
I use the BudgetBytes recipe from the website. I get no bennies from them, just good food. 2 forks up🍴🍴