of course I prefer to make my own but occasionally a can of soup is just the ticket until.... I bought a can of Campbell's Select Harvest Broccoli Cheese soup. totally yuk. lumps of raw potatoes, ghastly taste and texture, it tasted...

Sadly, you are referring to (at least with the Zesty Azteca Meatball and Rice) the now DEFUNCT Campbells Select line... not the Select Harvest Line. I know this because the Zesty Azteca Meatball and Rice was my lunch about 3 days...

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