# Campbell's soup is going DOWN! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158 "2005-01-22T23:16:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/21 "2005-01-23T20:53:26Z")
When come back, bring soup. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/22 "2005-01-24T01:48:58Z")
In America, can opens _you_! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/23 "2005-01-24T02:08:39Z")
When you open a non-pull-tab can with a can opener, it’s always possible to cut yourself. Everybody knows that and warning labels have never been required. The addition of a pull-tab does not **increase** the risk, in any way I can see; why should Campbell’s have warned you to be careful? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/24 "2005-01-24T02:10:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > PIE _Soup_??? I call my chai lattes “liquid pie.” No, this has nothing to do with the topic in question. Yes, I will go away now. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/25 "2005-01-24T02:23:35Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > I cut myself with the lid of a cat food can about 15 years ago. Only stitches I’ve ever gotten. We must be astrally linked, because the same thing with the same thing with the same result happened to me at around the same time. Well, it was more like 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/26 "2005-01-24T05:01:22Z")
There’s only one solution: home-made soup. More work but less salty and far more delicious. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/27 "2005-01-24T05:20:28Z")
I hate those pop-top cans. I haven’t had any trouble opening them, but they have that stupid lip around the top, which keeps me from getting the contents out. We recycle cans, so they have to be rinsed out. Usually we put them in with the dishes when we wash them, which means that sharp lip is a hazard. And it’s a whole lot easier to wash them out when you’ve gotten all the food out of them in the first place. Plus one of those things chewed up my good rubber scraper. I hate 'em! I have a nice can opener, easy to use, requires no electricity, and leaves not sharp edges. About the time I got it they started putting things in those stupid easy open cans. BAH!!! I hope your owie is better. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/28 "2005-01-24T05:28:46Z")
I believe it says right on those pull-tab cans that you can still use a can opener instead if you want. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/29 "2005-01-24T12:21:45Z")
The problem is that if you put warning labels on things that really don’t need them, then people will start ignoring all warning labels. Sharp edges on a can is sort of a no-brainer. Sorry about your finger. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/30 "2005-01-24T15:43:18Z")
> [@Talon Karrde](#): > > I believe it says right on those pull-tab cans that you can still use a can opener instead if you want. This is true. Being one of the woefully inept, it is just hell for me to yank on those pull-tabs. My wunnerful manual can opener that takes the whole top of the can off in one smooth piece works just fine on those cans. Now, I can eat canned soup without risk of life and limb. However, like **lavenderlemon** , most of the time I make my own soup. MMMMMMM… delicious homemade soup! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/31 "2005-01-24T15:59:37Z")
3 stitches? Eh, a pittance. The old can opener scalpel lid kind gave me 14 across my leg knee-high, and that from inside a garbage bag. So you came home and ate your Turkey Pot Pie soup after it had sliced you open. Would you have done the same if the soup had been Tomato? ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/32 "2005-01-24T16:00:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > In America, can opens _you_! If Yakov Smirnoff said this, it wouldn’t even get a smile out of me. Reading it here gave me a good chuckle. It’s all in the delivery, I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/33 "2005-01-24T16:03:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > However, like **lavenderlemon** , most of the time I make my own soup. MMMMMMM… delicious homemade soup! Especially if it’s bear soup! Recipe: 2 or more gay bears. Place in hot tub. Soak for at least 30 minutes…add special sauces to taste… ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/34 "2005-01-24T16:10:38Z")
actually, she did recieve third degree burns (coffee woman) over most of her genital area - do a little more research on the subject of that incident, please. As for the soup cans with pop tops - I carried a can opener for years to work and for one welcome our new pop top overlords. However, you aren’t the only one with a problem opening them - campbells actually sells a special opener for those cans. Saw it at the store the other day. They have to make the lids that thick - the thin ones on the microwave pot ones always tear for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/35 "2005-01-24T16:54:18Z")
This is not an issue about warning labels so much as about design. The pop top lids are very rigid, they do not flex to allow the user to easily start levering the lid open, then peeling it off the rest of the way. As such, if one isn’t especially careful, the lid can fly open rather than peeling off slowly, like other pop top cans do. I had a problem with Campbell’s soup in microwavable bowls a couple of years back. Bought some New England clam chowder and gave it a go. The stupid thing literally bounced up and down in my microwave by the forcefulness of the bubbles trying to surface through the thick soup. I tried to microwave it without the included lid and only managed to pour hot soup all over my hand when trying to get it out of the oven. They are filled right to the brim, unlike a typical bowl of soup, so are more dangerous to move in and out when piping hot. Wrote Campbell’s and complained. They gave me a few coupons to use on some of their products, and I don’t happen to see clam chowder in a microwavable bowl anymore, only broth based soups that don’t, presumably, have the jumping bean problem. I relate my story only to suggest that companies like Campbell’s do make design mistakes, and it takes YOU complaining to them about the things you think are dangerous before they’ll do something. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/36 "2005-01-24T17:09:30Z")
You know, I just opened one, had no problems with it at all, and had a yummy soup lunch. I don’t know what’s wrong with you guys. ::ducks & runs:: ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/37 "2005-01-24T17:17:59Z")
> [@Mynn](#): > > They have to make the lids that thick - the thin ones on the microwave pot ones always tear for me. Microwave pot? What’ll they think of next? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/38 "2005-01-24T18:17:30Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > From your thread title, I thought that Campbell’s Soup was going out of business. I thought this might be a thread about how the Philadelphia Eagles were going to win the Superbowl and beat the “curse of the chunky soup.” > [@Aesiron](#): > > Well, depending on how loose you want to be with the term, a pot pie could be considered a sandwich of sorts. Heretic, thou hast besmirched the name of Sandwich, but I shall give thee a sporting chance. You will have five minutes in the hedge maze before I release the pack of feral marmosets. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/39 "2005-01-24T18:25:30Z")
How’d I miss this thread for a week? I **hate** pop-top lids. I wrote a bitch letter to Campbell’s (The damn things interfere with getting out soup!) and they wrote back that there is an apparent increased demand for pop-tops. Idiot assholes. Like some arthritic grandma wants to weasel her fingers under the pop-top and lift it up, instead of using a can opener! Luckily, there is a work-around. if you spin the pull tab 90 degrees, you can yank it off without damaging the integrity of the can lid, and then proceed to use a can opener. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158/40 "2005-01-24T18:27:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Especially if it’s bear soup! Recipe: 2 or more gay bears. Place in hot tub. Soak for at least 30 minutes…add special sauces to taste… Wanna come over for some “soup”? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/campbells-soup-is-going-down/286158.md?page=3)