Friendly reminder that HR is there to protect the company, not you
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The problem with that is that quite often protecting you is what protects the company. I've worked with a lot of HR people in various sectors, and a large chunk of their job was telling management what they couldn't legally. do.
I was in an IBEW union a while ago. I was an average employee, but it was like 9 or 10 bucks an hour, so that's the work they got. I'm not going to bust my ass all day coming home dead, while all I management just walks and talks and sits in meetings all day. They tried to fire me one time and tried to get me to go with them to take a drug test and I said sure who's car we taking to go do this? Let's get this over with cuz I still have work to do. They stopped bothering me after that, but I left not long after cuz the pay was shit. But all my coworkers were cool as fuck inner city peeps from NYC.
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This clearly should have been one of those cases
They are there to steal your labor for profit.
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I find it extremely funny that news like this is shocking to anyone. If you don't realize just how awful companies are as a whole at this point then you're intentionally ignorant. Your favorite brand is an awful, money grubbing machine that will prey on your insecurities, your pride, your hopes or whatever else to get you to buy.
In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, "We have sh.t for f..king poor people. Who buys our sh.t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f..k‘s in it."
He also referenced "bioengineered meat," saying, "I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer."
🤣 Telling it like it actually is. It's less expensive to make your own, homemade soup and you get more meals out of it.
Bake a chicken and put lots of veggies around it. We use potatoes, broccoli, onions and red peppers. Brush melted, real butter if you can.
Eat and enjoy for 1 - 3 meals, depending on how many people are eating.
Save the bones and put in a large pot with water. Boil it for about a 40 minutes. Let it cool, strain it, and then freeze small portions of it. Now you have chicken broth ready. Add milk or cream when you're heating it back up for a different taste if you're bored.
This is the way. But all bones of any meat you eat should be saved for soup broth. Whole chicken is especially useful in this manner, because there are lots of little scraps of meat leftover with whole chicken that fall off the bone and into the soup when boiling the bones to make the base.
This is one of the best things I learned to do when I was a poor person.
A whole chicken is relatively inexpensive, especially if you are buying on sale. There's not much easier than roasting a chicken. Just follow a basic recipe, nothing fancy.
That also makes your leftovers very versatile. I like to use them to make chicken stock with the bones and some veggies or to make chicken pot pie. You could also just use the meat for a chicken salad or something. Or toss it in a salad. But don't waste the bones!
Now I do this every Thanksgiving with a roast duck and I use the leftovers to make duck pho (I don't have to feed a lot of people.)
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Generic store brands are better and more affordable. But any canned soup with High Fructose Corn Syrup is horrible for you.
It's surprisingly difficult to find soup that isn't chock full of nasty stuff. I just want some veggies and maybe a bit of meat in broth or some kind of chili. Why is that so difficult for companies to make?
My heart goes out to those without the knowledge, skill or time to make their own. Great healthy soup is not hard to make. Relatively easy, cheap and with litteral food scraps. 99% of the time requirement is just an unattended pot simmering, with just a wee bit of chopping, tasting as you do and ammending.
If anyone is on a very tight budget, you can go a long way for cheap with:
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beans and rice
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pulse dishes
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soups!
Some important ingredients in a good soup include bones (boil 'em for the broth - beef, pork, chicken, soup company EVP, whatever). Diced carrots, celery, onions and salt and voila! You have an amazing versatile soup base.
Everything else is optional and to taste. Throw in beans, groats, herbs, spices, mushrooms, meats, rice, fish, fish sauce, sirracha, chillies whatever is cheap and available. You can buy from the "almost spoiled" discount section of the grocery because you'll never notice diced up in a soup. You can also dress it up fancy with premium ingredients for a treat and variety.
Old canned and frozen foods are also great in soups.
An instant pot is a great investment. Tons of recipes online, so much easier and faster than tending to something on the stovetop, you don't have to soak the beans, etc.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Bean-with-Bacon-Condensed-Soup-11-25-oz/10316792
$0.96 is pretty damn cheap and I don't need to make any extra effort for all the protein I need for the night. I wish I had time and energy to cook more often, but I really appreciate having affordable options like this. If I was single I would be eating very cheaply with very little effort.
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Because it doesn't last long in cans. All the extra ingredients are to keep the appearance and taste stable. Meats and starches are particularly hard to safely can without preservatives.
You honestly don’t need them though. If you pressure can homemade chicken soup yourself (don’t water can meat or starches, but pressure canning is the same thing with different equipment and not very difficult), the quality loss you have over two years is negligible. It’s possible that the meat gets a little tougher, but it’s honestly surprising how little it’s affected by 90 minutes of superheating.
You only use them if the only things you care about are consistency and price.
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I actually did purchase a reasonable amount of Campbell's stocks in the past. (Broth, not company stock)
Won't be purchasing any more, I'll pay the bit extra for Maggie Beer stocks instead which as a plus are locally owned.
Won't be purchasing any Campbells products at all moving forward.
Btw, Maggie is owned by Nestlé which is inarguably one of the most evil corporations in the world.
Its difficult to find non shitty brands because of this parent company situation. I only recently found out about Maggie. No more for me.
You are thinking of Maggi.
Maggie Beer (That's her name) is a South Australian chef-turned-TV-personality that runs a small foods company.
Maggi is the yellow and red bullion cubes and Maggi arome.
Maggie Beer is a lady.
I've just started making my own stock. $5 rotisserie chicken, break it down, whatever isn't taken off goes into a pot with some mirapoix, garlic, and Tony Chachare's, boil it down until I can throw most of it in an old pasta sauce jar. Keep everything I filtered out and with the last of the broth I add some rice. it tastes soooo good!
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Aaaaaand we never bought it anyway, we just have more reasons now to ever buy it in the future
When it comes to big companies like these, never forgive, never forget. Let then go bankrupt and make place for smaller companies that give a fuck
reminds me of my childhood friend, his dad owns a tuna canning company, when i went to visit him at his house the first time, they offered lunch, my gullible mind was expecting fish, they had steak insted, because of course they are rich lol
You can only eat a small amount of tuna due to bioaccumulation of mercury and other junk. Once a month or less.
Sad. I love tuna.
I think the maximum recommended amount is more than that, but not substantially. Which is sad because I also love tuna.
I try to get maximum enjoyment out of it by buying the fancy sashimi.
After hearing him talk about their meat honestly... I don't think I'll ever eat another can of Campbell's soup again. I already nearly stopped simply by virtue of buying organic alternatives. Every time Campbell's comes up with an 'upscale' versions of their soups they taste like shit. It's telling that their cheapest product tastes best.
If we could only hear the goings on behind the scenes at every large company that stocks food on our pantry shelves. I'm sure we'd be a healthier nation. Ah, who am I kidding.....
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Time to boycott Campbell's. For this and for their recent illegal dumping scandal. That's why Campbell soups are urk, urk crap!
Don't you hate it when there's a good boycott starting, and you realuze that you're already boycotting them for a previous atrocity?
Aka the nestle phenomenon.
Long ago, I looked over Nestle's brands, and I have chosen alternatives to anything they distribute, and usually they are actually better products. Evil companies tend to let their evil slip into their product quality.
Or when the product is already shit and you don't buy it anyway. Progresso is better.
(Now fully expecting someone to tell me Progresso personally sent bombs to Israel or something.)
I tried Progresso again recently, and it was truly awful. I just make my own soup now. It's not that hard, I usually just improvise some stuff together from leftovers in the fridge, and it's always better than anything I can buy. I recently discovered that a spoon of Korean gochujang paste makes any soup tastier and spicier.
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Lol.
Imagine being a SVP at a soup company. I mean it's THE soup company but still.
Gives me this energy:
They don't care because they're rich. Better than the poors.
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Better not to eat it anyway.
There's nothing wrong with canned foods due to the canning process, it's the crap they put in the cans that's bad for you.
Companies that process food are always looking for ways to increase profit. The cheaper the ingredients--both as raw stock, and the cost of paying workers, shipping, etc.--the higher the profit. It's no surprise they use literal slave labor in any country where they can get away with it. They know it's happening, they just don't care.
Companies that process food are always looking for ways to increase profit.
I was amazed when Campbell's came out with their line of low-salt soups. The can was slightly smaller, the soup wasn't condensed (so you didn't add a can of water to it), and it cost twice as much. You're paying over four times as much as normal just for them to not put as much salt in the soup in the first place.
Add him to the guillotine list
The way things have been going lately, I would absolutely love to see Ted Cruz choose this to grow a spine on, and just absolutely goes off on Campbell's.
The ~~10,000 roaches in a Rafael suit~~~ totally normal human Ted Cruz loves Campbells
When I married Ted, we got back from our honeymoon, and he went off to the store and came home by himself. And I was completely shocked to see that he arrived back at our apartment with literally 100 cans of Campbell’s Chunky soup. I never bought 100 of anything.
This was shocking to me, so we had a tough conversation about it. I said, “You don’t buy 100 of anything, much less canned soup. We can’t do this. I’ll be making things.” He said, “No, I know you. You won’t be making things.”
So the next morning, it was a weekend morning, I loaded up our car before he woke up and returned every single can. And when I got home, I called my mother just to make sure I’d done the right thing as a newlywed. And she emphatically disagreed with me. And so when Ted opened the pantry, I had to quickly tell him that I would go back and buy those cans again.
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Does anyone have a link to the audio that doesn’t have advertisements pop-ups or a shitty mobile experience? Perhaps… A direct link to an audio file? I fucking hate the web
Firefox + ublock origin = no ads on youtube. I use the browser on my phone instead of the app for the same reason.
I did find a soundcloud link, though https://soundcloud.com/dead-kennedys-official/soup-is-good-food
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Fuck that asshole, never buying that shit again.
Sounds like someone wants their profits to drop like a lead...can.
Can do! Gonna do!
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