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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 99 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Willy Wonka predicted this. Just spit it out before it gets to the blueberry pie.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Take the blueberry and float to New Zealand

[–] don@lemm.ee 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All “could we”, no “should we”

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would it be sweet? It's more like a bouillon cube.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

The image looks like a hard candy, i.e. made with sugar, and since I couldn't find a Nutrition Facts label to check the sugar content I went with what it looks like to me. I'm not sure sucking on a bouillon cube would be all that great, too salty. But hey, to each their own. I didn't mean to 'yuck on your yum'.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 2 months ago

Scientists? Preoccupied!

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I've already gone over the fact that they are, in fact, gross, and you won't want to try more than one. But the thing is, if you buy a container, you can bring it to your friends and family and say, "Hey, want to try a salty drop that's supposed to taste like chicken noodle soup? They're gross."

Or, take them into the doctor/dentist/bank office and mix them into the bowl of hard candies.

[–] don@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago

That’s so evil, lol, I love it

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

So my take from this is that this could be a neat alternative to bullion and a funny gag gift. That's honestly not nearly as awful as I expected.

I've gotten salty candy at Asian markets, I'm sure of this has been done better elsewhere.

[–] soupguy@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They stole my catchphrase!

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Back to "Stew you can chew"

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Soup you can suck on

MC Comings, VP, Business Unit Director for Progresso

😏

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean people already suck on boullion cubes

[–] FeloniousPunk 12 points 2 months ago
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Enjoy your hypertension

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

National soup month

Fuck off and die, marketing weasels

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 months ago
[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] conc@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

.. me the soup drops!

[–] sc2pirate@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Progresso ruined the Chickarina soup by shrinking the meatballs and replacing acini de pepe with stars and the gelatinized soup they come in.