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On 8/18/2024 at 8:30 PM, Kerry Beal said:

I’ve got it in my mind that Campbells marketed a vegetarian vegetable soup probably when the first big wave of vegetarianism came through (think Diet for a Small Planet). 
 

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I thought it was more for Seventh Day Adventists and Catholics who didn't eat meat on Friday.

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On 8/18/2024 at 3:30 AM, Kerry Beal said:

I’ve got it in my mind that Campbells marketed a vegetarian vegetable soup probably when the first big wave of vegetarianism came through (think Diet for a Small Planet). 
 

https://www.masterworksfineart.com/artists/andy-warhol/screen-print/vegetarian-vegetable-soup-from-campbells-soup-ii-1969/id/w-6837

 

Andy Warhol 1969

I certainly remember this (Campbell's Vegetarian Vegetable Soup).    I always thought it was to differentiate it from their Vegetable Beef Soup.   I'm sure it was around in the '50s.  

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I went out this evening to buy something and passed by the trash disposal area of my apartment building. People, including me usually leave boxes and cardboard to one side for recycling. I spotted this, which immediately reminded me of this topic.

 

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Sadly, I have no idea what was in it. There is nothing there to indicate the contents. But I was amused, so ...

 

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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This  reminds of an unrelated anecdote from about 40 years ago. I had occasion to send a fax to an Indian colleague (in India - I was in London). I asked a new secretary to send it to Mr Anil Gupta and gave her the number. Somehow she managed to render that into Anal Tiptoe. She took my message, put it into an envelope, wrote "For the attention of Mr. Anal Tiptoe" on the envelope and faxed the envelope! Fortunately Mr. Gupta had a good sense of humour. The secretary didn't last the week!

 

 

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What is wrong with these people? I don't want potatoes made of plants; I want regular normal potatoes, not fakes! Sad fools!

 

Here below is a primer on real potatoes.

 

 

 

 

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From the September 2 New Yorker, my kind of humor: 

 

 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid of reason. Laughter is how you release the anxiety you feel at this knowledge." -Dave Barry, humorist

 

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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When you're preserving like it's 1999...

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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3 hours ago, chromedome said:

When you're preserving like it's 1999...

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:D Took me a few moments, though.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid of reason. Laughter is how you release the anxiety you feel at this knowledge." -Dave Barry, humorist

 

Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear. -Mary Doria Russell, science-fiction writer

 

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator

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